Talk:Kassadin/@comment-26489540-20150810061636/@comment-1920550-20150815162905

Kassadin was played as an AP bruiser post-rework, but subsequent meta changes buffs/nerfs made his mid-lane the optimal place to play him. He was originally played as an AD bruiser pre-rework because of the attack speed his passive used to have and before the Xpeke backdoor.

His AP scalings are way too good to pass up in a bruiser build, especially now that they are returning the AP scaling on his ult. My problem with Seraph's isn't that it's a bad item, it's that placing a second scaling item on a low waveclear, long CD champion on top of a ROA, which is also a scaling item, is to me a massive risk to take. Kassadin as an assassin already scales slowly due to his low base damages and having to reach level 11 and wait for his ROA to stack to spike.

Having to spend extra gold on an even slower scaling, rather than going for instant AP items to accelerate your scaling makes your final powerspike, while much more potent, somewhat useless because you are giving the enemy team a massive pressure advantage until the latter stages of the game.