I LOVE playing Cassia, probably one of my favorite ranged assassins, and the rework raised her ability in my mind.
What’s her new meta build?
Full disclosure: I only play QM. There was a recent thread with a build that the OP said worked well. It’s worked best for me as well. This is the basic outline:
1: Thunderstroke
4: Inner Light or Plate of the Whale (Inner Light personally)
7: Surge of Light
10: Ball Lightning (my preference)
13: War Matron or War Traveler (depending on how you feel like playing against the other team)
16: Static Electricity
20: Infinite Lightning (personal choice for comedy and I’m not the best at utilizing Titan’s Revenge)
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AA build with the lvl 7 activate on D imo
https://www.icy-veins.com/heroes/talent-calculator/cassia#50.1!3232332
Ult whatever feels the best for you
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Level 1: Thunderstroke.
Level 4: Inner Light.
Level 7: Surge of Light.
Level 10: Either ultimate.
Level 13: War Matron.
Level 16: Static Electricity. (major power spike)
Level 20: Rockstopper.
[T1331124,Cassia]
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War Traveler is awfully designed IMO.
So you get movement speed, more fast movement speed on max stacks, and then instant mount, but lose all your armor in the process once you mount.
Do not recommend.
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take it with Plate of the Whale at four that allows you to build avoidance while on mount.
Other than that it’s garbage
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But then you don’t get the big 25% healing, which becomes really op at level 16 with those cdr.
Briefly tested it, the mount up seems counter productive but imo is not the main part of the talent. It’s a nice extra + decent escape on top of me zooming around throwing spear sized darts.
Just my 2 cents
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I hate the new Cass with a passion. Used to love her, but they ruined her. New avoidance is a piece of trash.
I tried EVERY build there is. Full blind, full E, full Q, Auto attack, hybrid, doesn’t matter. You get a mini-stun you have -30% armor.
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Fend still seems to be her best least worst build.
Q build is pretty much garbage, and picking AA build is basically throwing.
lol not even close. With the exception of Surging Light, that is literally her worst build in every way.
I had forgotten that mounting removes armour because I -always- take Plate of the Whale, which preserves your armour when mounted.
Personally, I take the quest at lvl 1, Plate of the Whale at 4, Surge of Light at 7. At 13 I take War Rider, 16 is the one that launches lightning on Fend. 10 and 20 are a toss-up, as I find all of it very disappointing.
She’s okay-ish at this point, but it has to be said: Surge of Light feels like ~80% of the value in all that. It is an amazing nuke in a kit that feels a bit undertuned overall.
I tried a basic attack build too, but I have to admit, it ruins my wrist to try to keep Avoidance alive against that murderous timer.
I also dislike both ults. Lightning ball due to how situational it is and how mediocre when those conditions are met, and Valkyrie because it is unbelievably tricky to land and prone to bugging out.
One thing I’d say is a ‘must-have’ change to her current state: Rockstopper should make it impossible to lose Avoidance for those four seconds. You need it most when you get stunned or rooted, after all.
That is your oppinion and your experience, I know for me its highly effective, I can stand my ground with this, duel a lot of enemys and dive when needed
It deals less damage than Q or E build, it does not deal that damage as burst damage like E build does, and it does not deal that damage as poke damage like Q build does. It brings less damage, less impact, and less safety.
It is literally worse in every way, and that even shows in its stats.
Up until Titan’s Revenge at level 20, literally every single AA talent has a sub-40% winrate (and Titan’s Revenge is still sub-50% at a tier where most talents have over 60% winrates). The whole build up through level 20 has a 33.1% winrate listed on HeroesProfile. That’s less than a 1/3 winrate.
Compare that to E build’s roughly 48% winrate and Q builds roughly 46% winrate at level 20, and it’s obvious to see that this build is utter garbage.
If you enjoy it, that’s up to you. But it is objectively trash.
I haven’t played her that much, but I find her E build to be good:
1 - E deals more dmg to low HP enemies
4 - Plate of the Whale (it’s pretty good now)
7 - Slow on E
10 - depends on enemy team
13 - Protection while channeling E
16 - Causes E to automatically spawn Qs towards enemies upon cast.
20 - Activate to give Cassia 60 armor
If you wanna go for raw dmg you go for Raynor or Valla.
You pick her for your utility and a burst potential. I dont have to be top damage when I can have more kill potential
I cant see it when heroesprofile shows inaccurate stats. Look at this dev comment and look up what heroesprofile says. Its not accurate and a crapsite realise that. It cant even be accurate on the 2%, and with this many players using it I find it just badly programmed
https://gyazo.com/3c24d04e9454bdb6e71ea5da2fb0bb4e?token=95b3371a305b7b97f437d9a171bee1c9
And on top of that, you dont look at winrates you look at performance. If you face a Aba and headhunter shows the highest winrate, you dont pick headhunter. You think what is the best, AA build with Cassia is the most consistent. Q build does more dmg yes, but AA build provides more things then just endless poke and no kills. Its just another orb build
I really think plate of the whale should be baseline now tbh. Like, that just seems like how Cassia should work.
Lightning Fury build, kinda. It takes an insane amount of stacks to make Cassia semi-dangerous now.
Fend and Charged Strikes are completely dead and ineffective.
Yeah, except if you want utility and burst potential you should still go for Valla or Raynor instead of Cassia now. Because both of them have about the same utility and way more burst damage than Cassia now.
And you should especially not go for AA build Cassia, because then you lack even more burst than either Valla or Raynor.
Seriously, why would you talent into AAs on a hero who has the health of Raynor but significantly lower AA DPS and range and self-sustain and self-peel than him? That’s like trying to sharpen a stick you picked up off the ground to bring with you to a gunfight.
Hell, Raynor and Valla are the kind of heroes Cassia is supposed to excel against, but now both of them can absolutely 
on her. She’s massively underperforming right now, her AA build is especially trash.
She is underperforming in general dont get me wrong, but lets await next balance patch