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Arcane Comet
Damaging a champion with an ability hurls a comet at their location, or, if Arcane Comet is on cooldown, reduces its remaining cooldown.
Adaptive Damage : 30 - 130 based on level (+0.05 AP and+0.1 bonus AD )
Cooldown: 20 - 8s
Cooldown Reduction:
Single Target: 20%.
Area of Effect: 10%.
Damage over Time: 5%.Why?
Cassiopeia is able to rapidly proc Arcane Comet thanks to her rapid fire damage from [Q] and [E].
Manaflow Band
Hitting an enemy champion with an ability permanently increases your maximum mana by 25, up to 250 mana.
After reaching 250 bonus mana, restore 1% of your missing mana every 5 seconds.
Cooldown: 15 secondsWhy?
Manaflow Band synergizes well with Tear allowing you to use your abilities more liberally in the early game for trades.
Transcendence
Gain bonuses upon reaching the following levels:
Level 5: +5Ability Haste
Level 8: +5Ability Haste
Level 11: On Champion takedown, reduce the remaining cooldown of basic abilities by 20%.Why?
The extra bit of CDR in the mid-game from Transcendence allows you to itemize into Magic Pen and raw AP for more damage.
Gathering Storm
Every 10 min gain AP or AD,
adaptive .
10 min: + 8 AP or 5 AD
20 min: + 24 AP or 14 AD
30 min: + 48 AP or 29 AD
40 min: + 80 AP or 48 AD
50 min: + 120 AP or 72 AD
60 min: + 168 AP or 101 AD
etc...Why?
Gathering Storm's scaling AP makes you an insane threat heading into the mid to late game.
Taste of Blood
Heal when you damage an enemy champion.
Healing: 16-40 (+0.1 bonus AD, +0.05 AP) health (based on level)
Cooldown: 20sWhy?
Taste of Blood's lane sustain, when paired with the sustain of Cassiopeia's [E], allows you to trade pretty agressively without losing too much health.
Treasure Hunter
Gain an additional
50 gold the next time you collect a Bounty Hunter stack. Increase the gold gained by20 gold for each Bounty Hunter stack, up to130 gold .
Bounty Hunter stacks are earned the first time you get a takedown on each enemy champion.Why?
Cassiopeia has massive ramping damage from [E] spam allows you to heal for a massive amount in an extended right/trade.
