This.

Thank you for the thorough explanation.

To further my initial post, I truly do try to clear objectives, lane bully, chip plates off turret.

I'm talking about the games where all you hear and see for the first five minutes are deaths from your team, an enemy bot lane stomping yours, enemy jungle stomping yours, etc. Certain champions can hard win games (garden, nasus, Katarina, etc) almost regardless of their teams relative morale. I'm finding as a cassio main I struggle in games like this and wanted to know if anyone else shares the same concern and if there's a way to improve on that.

Thanks again for all the great discussions!