Talk:Kassadin/@comment-115.64.31.150-20130225102348/@comment-37.128.215.240-20130225115131

He's extremely powerful late-game. In fact, he doesn't really become powerful until mid to late-game, due to his reliance on items and his ulti. His scalings are immense, and his burst becomes ridiculous with a full late-game build. One-combo'ing the enemy AD-carry is incredibly easy for him. One skill alone will do around 800+ damage to champions that haven't stacked mres.

The utility of his ulti is second to no other - the cooldown is reduced to a pathetic 5 seconds without cdr, and you can effortlessly snipe the enemy carries without having to fear for you life.

Riftwalk is nigh useless early game, though. It merely functions as a positioning tool or an escape mechanism. However, once you start getting items it'll scale to become ALMOST as damaging as your Q and your E. Landing on an enemy with your Riftwalk in a late-game build and following up with the QE combo should net you something like 2k damage. It's absolutely insane.

As for his lane-presence, as any other similar champ, he's rather passive and useless in his 1-5 stage. Once he hits 6, though, he's becomes absolutely unstoppable in the lane. Especially with a blue-buff. He can Riftwalk JUST into his ability range, blast the enemy with a full combo, then retreat without having to fear for any retaliation. The enem will be silenced and they will be slowed, while you waltz off to safety.

He's an excellent counter to almost all AP-mids and an excellent carry late-game. Farming is the only things that's somewhat hard to do on him, due to him lacking any consistent AOE-ability.