Seriously. She has 18. Xerath has 22. Xerath has the ability to artillery strike from the other end of the lane. Both have the same armor scaling exactly, but Xerath has 4 more while having significantly more range. Even in terms of HP, Xerath ends with the same max HP as Cassiopeia at max level. She also has less base mana than him and lower movespeed (before level 3, passive does give movespeed).

Wouldn’t it make sense for Cassiopeia to have at least the armor of Xerath? She doesn’t even have more armor than Sona until level 17 for some reason. Yes, level 17. Sona has a few decimal points more armor than Cassiopeia at level 16. For some reason. She has 34 more base HP than Xerath and actually has lower HP per level scaling, so even that goes away with levels. 50 less MP too. And lower MS. Hell, she actually has less HP Regen per level than Xerath too.

Riot, why is Xerath tankier than Cassiopeia? Is it really too much to ask to have equivalent armor to a long range artillery mage on a short range sustained mage? Hell, Lux has both 1 more base armor and more armor scaling.

Please, just give snek not the lowest armor in the game. Having equivalent armor to an Artillery mage wouldn’t break anything. Swain’s allowed to have 26, and Karthus has 21. Would bumping her up to be equal to the other Battlemage characters really be a problem?