So I've been thinking so much about these Cassie nerfs, and I'm going to just give my thoughts on everything thus far. This is coming from someone who's mained Cassie since a week after the game came out and hasn't dropped her since.

Cassie Wide Changes

B212D2+4(Changed from D1+2)
Input change is good, no more interactables randomly. Bad thing is there's a gap before the overhead now. I don't understand the change for this, it's one of our only (full) strings that jailed into EX guns and wasn't something extremely hard to block. Now everyone can armor for free, and actually armor or punish us for doing EX guns instead (crouch and full punish).

EX FlipKick now has no armor AND is 7 frames.
This change royally fucked Cassie. She now doesn't have an armored launcher at all. She only ever got somewhat low damage off of ex flipkick (Maybe 20% ish in hollywood). She now can't really counterpoke with it as it'll get stuffed, considering the hitbox on it isn't very good. She can't consistently armor jump in's/crossovers into full combos like some other characters can. Were now forced to use glowkick or nutpunch to armor in situations which don't lead to a full combo at all. The easiest way to deal with flipkick would've been to make it punishable, which almost EVERY Cassie main is fine with.

Variations.

Spec Ops

GG this variation is the worst now. She got nothing at all (except MAYBE better recovery on EX missile) and that's it. EX flipkick destroyed it.

Brawler

I don't know too much about it, but I know it got buffed (giving her armor and better grabs) which is awesome and I'm glad for the brawler players. It's something she actually needed

Hollywood

Welp, there goes our + frames on nutpunch at all. +3 alone is really bad and does nothing for her. They changed nutpunch to have pushback now so theyre "in" B1 range, except they can backdash for free and only get caught by the second hit of B124. They can now armor for free, and none of our mixups are guaranteed.

Air guns feel easier, this is most likely a beta wide change. That's something I guess.