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Champion Spotlight[]
Recommended Items[]
Tips[]
- Playing As
Cassiopeia
- Use Twin Fang on poisoned stationary targets like monsters and units stunned by her Petrifying Gaze for maximum damage.
- Lead your enemy when targeting with Noxious Blast to ensure the hit.
- Playing Against Cassiopeia
- Be wary of Cassiopeia's damage potential with Twin Fang when she has you poisoned.
- Turn away from Cassiopeia when she is casting Petrifying Gaze to be slowed instead of stunned.
Tricks[]
- Ability Usage
- Cassiopeia is a great harasser in all stages of the game. All three of her basic abilities, especially Noxious Blast, can be used constantly in lane to zone, capable of dealing huge amounts of damage over time at a safe distance.
- Noxious Blast has a slight delay; lead your enemy when targeting with Noxious Blast to ensure the hit, or use it on them when they will have to stand still to last-hit.
- Using Noxious Blast in the brush does not reveal Cassiopeia, so when in the side lanes, use the brush to your advantage to harass with little to no retaliation from enemy minions.
- When chasing/fleeing, be sure to use your Noxious Blast on an enemy champion to speed yourself up, and Miasma to slow them down.
- Using Miasma in the middle of the lane when enemy minions are coming will slow them and deal some damage giving advantage to your minions, this tactic is best used in pushes as intentionally pushing your lane during the laning phase opens yourself up to ganks.
- Noxious Blast can also be used to check brush, as it gives you a movement speed bonus (and a buff icon) if an enemy is hit. If you cast it in a brush and notice the buff icon, you know that an enemy is there.
- Twin Fang becomes extremely powerful if the target is poisoned, allowing you to deal out large amounts of damage with its extremely low cooldown.
- It is very highly recommended to smart cast Twin Fang, as it will make it much easier to land the maximum amount of Twin Fang allowed by the duration of your poison effects.
- If the situation is favorable, try to cast Twin Fang while directly on top of your target, as Twin Fang's extra damage begins when the poisoned target is hit and not on spell cast.
- Due to Twin Fang has extremely low cooldown and high damage, don't be afraid to target durable melee champions if necessary. Unlike many other mages that rely on burst damage, Cassiopeia and her Twin Fang can realistically cut through tough enemies with time, accuracy, and enough mana.
- It is very highly recommended to smart cast
- Try to use Petrifying Gaze offensively, and usually against more than one target. That said, it can also be used when being ganked to escape enemies.
- It is, however, safest to use it when a team fight has happened. The enemy will be less likely to manage to turn around with their attention split amongst five champions - and more likely to all be facing you since that is largely required to fight your team.
- Using Petrifying Gaze followed by Miasma, Noxious Blast and Twin Fang can turn most 1v1 fights and mid-game turret dives in your favor.
- Petrifying Gaze also allows Cassiopeia to be a very strong anti-ganker. Simply casting it when your lane opponent and the enemy ganker are in range, then bursting down the weaker one with your combo can turn the 2v1 into a 1v1. This tactic is the only effective when your Petrifying Gaze stuns both targets.
- Rune Usage
- Keystones
- Phase Rush is quickly activated by Cassiopeia's rapid spellcasting. Once up, the bonus movement speed allows you to either retreat effectively, or keep close for further damage dealing.
- Summon Aery provides consistent extra damage for your spells, and is especially strong in the early planning phase to improve your trades. However Cassiopeia only has Miasma to proc the effect multiple times on a single spell cast, and Aery's poor scaling means this keystone will lose a lot of its impact as the game goes on.
- Paths
- Sorcery
- Domination
- Taste of Blood
- Ravenous Hunter is incredibly strong on Cassiopeia for in-fight sustain. As a single-target spell, her Twin Fang gets full benefits from its healing.
- Inspiration
- Biscuit Delivery grants laning sustain and a maximum mana pool boost. Minion Dematerializer helps Cassiopeia's weak wave clear.
- Time Warp Tonic
- Item Usage
As a Battlemage, 
Cassiopeia values ability power, cooldown reduction and mana. Survivability through health, armor, magic resist and utility items are also good purchases since Cassiopeia's extreme sustained damage can overpower enemies the longer she can stay alive.
Thanks to Cassiopeia's passive 
Serpentine Grace, she has no need to buy boots. In long matches this allows her to pick a sixth item as she needs, while still having equivalent movement speed to most other champions.
- An early Tear of the Goddess is a nearly mandatory purchase for Cassiopeia, with the mana cost refund and increased mana pool helping to ease her heavy casting demands. Archangel's Staff and the eventual Seraph's Embrace are natural upgrades, providing high ability power and a strong shield for on-demand survivability.
- Haunting Guise and Liandry's Torment
- Catalyst of Aeons and Rod of Ages
- Rylai's Crystal Scepter
- Zhonya's Hourglass
- Morellonomicon
- Shurelya's Reverie
- Void Staff
- Countering
- Cassiopeia mostly deals magic damage; investing in magic resistance will mitigate his damage.
- Adaptive Helm in particular is a heavy counter to Cassiopeia, since it will reduce her sustained damage from repeated Twin Fang casts.
- Cassiopeia is heavily restricted by her mana in the early game. If she runs low, she is highly vulnerable to ganks and all-in attacks.
- When trading against Cassiopeia, a lot of her damage comes from poison-enhanced Twin Fangs. Try to dodge Noxious Blast and stay in close range to avoid Miasma, and her damage will be greatly reduced.
- Close-range assassins such as Zed, Talon and Fizz are strong against Cassiopeia, especially before she has access to her ultimate Petrifying Gaze. If they can gap close quickly and avoid Miasma entirely, their full ability combos can kill or cripple Cassiopeia before she is allowed to deal with her sustained damage.
- Zed and Fizz, in particular, are the best, due to their ability to dodge Petrifying Gaze, respectively, with Death Mark and Playful/ Trickster, without being stunned or slowed at all. Kayn can also do that with his Umbral Trespass, but he needs to have damaged Cassiopeia first.
- Be wary that none of those abilities can be used if those champions are standing upon Miasma.
- Be wary that none of those abilities can be used if those champions are standing upon
- A mage that can outrange Cassiopeia such as Vel'Koz, Lux, or Xerath can also deal well with her, as Cassiopeia Counters has difficulty closing the gap against them due to her lack of mobility and will mostly need to eat their harass during the laning phase.
