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Cassiopeia, the Serpent's Embrace, is a mage champion that is demanding to master. Across our 599 analysed ranked games, Cassiopeia is mostly played in Mid (64% of its games), and more rarely in Top (19%) and as ADC (17%), with a 49.2% win rate in that role: tier B among Mid champions (#18 of 42, ranked by win rate). Cassiopeia's damage is mostly magic (96%): magic resistance items are therefore effective against this champion. Win rate varies with game length: 51.4% in short games (under 25 min, 138 games) versus 42.5% in long games (over 35 min).
Averages measured over 386 Mid games played with Cassiopeia, from our ranked Solo/Duo data collection.
Cassiopeia is a mage who benefits from movement speed, which is more effective on her. Noxious Blast damages, raises her speed and poisons, Miasma slows and grounds the enemies who cross it, Twin Fang deals more damage to poisoned targets and heals her, and Petrifying Gaze stuns those facing her.
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When: An enemy is within range.
Noxious Blast poisons after a short delay and speeds you up if it hits a champion, then Twin Fang deals more damage to poisoned targets.
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When: Several enemies are facing you.
Petrifying Gaze stuns those facing you and slows those turning their back: position yourself so they look toward you.
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When: An enemy uses movement abilities.
Miasma grounds those crossing the clouds: they cannot use movement abilities.
Poison with Noxious Blast then Twin Fang: it deals more damage and heals you. If Twin Fang kills its target, you regain mana.
The most-played core build is Rylai's Crystal Scepter, Zhonya's Hourglass, and Rod of Ages (35 games, 65.7% win rate), usually with Swiftmarch (50.0% over 190 games).
Flash + Teleport49.7% · 187 games
Flash + Ghost47.2% · 106 games
Flash + Ignite44.9% · 49 games
Exhaust + Flash63.6% · 33 games
Manaflow Band100%
Celerity71%
Scorch98%
Cut Down68%
Legend: Haste59%
Presence of Mind99%Legend: Haste100%
Last Stand73%Manaflow Band92%
Transcendence62%
Manaflow Band98%Celerity76%Scorch100%
Bone Plating89%
Overgrowth64%For each row, the most picked rune among the games played with this page (share of games in brackets).
We sort every game by the enemy team's damage. These are Cassiopeia's completed items and their win rate in each situation; "▲" marks an item that does at least 3 points better than its usual win rate.
Rod of Ages
56.5% ▲
Rylai's Crystal Scepter
57.5%
Liandry's Torment
64.5% ▲
Hextech Rocketbelt
42.1%
Zhonya's Hourglass
60.0%The item that stands out most is Rod of Ages: 56.5% win rate, +7 points versus its usual win rate.
Rod of Ages
49.3%Rylai's Crystal Scepter
54.0%Hextech Rocketbelt
52.6%Zhonya's Hourglass
72.2%Liandry's Torment
57.1%No item clearly stands out in this situation: the usual build remains the reference.
Rod of Ages
44.8% ▼Rylai's Crystal Scepter
55.3%Zhonya's Hourglass
53.1% ▼Hextech Rocketbelt
42.9%Liandry's Torment
50.0%
Bloodletter's Curse
38.5%No item clearly stands out in this situation: the usual build remains the reference.
Syndra
Cassiopeia: 42.1%19 games
Syndra has the edge in 58% of the 19 Mid duels against Cassiopeia. See the Syndra guide.
Syndra42.1% · 19 gamesWin rates measured over direct same-role duels; only matchups with more than 15 games are listed. See all of Cassiopeia's matchups.
The most-played core build is Rylai's Crystal Scepter, Zhonya's Hourglass, and Rod of Ages (35 games, 65.7% win rate), usually with Swiftmarch (50.0% over 190 games).
Cassiopeia's toughest matchups in Mid are Syndra (42.1% win rate over 19 games).
Cassiopeia posts its best win rates against Syndra (42.1%).
Win rate varies with game length: 51.4% in short games (under 25 min, 138 games) versus 42.5% in long games (over 35 min).
The most-played rune page uses Deathfire Touch with the Precision secondary tree (246 games, 46.8% win rate).
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