Forum talk:Neekerivittu/@comment-4167645-20121128144117/@comment-3238314-20121129173625

"using shadow to hit a sole shuriken is a waste because you waste energy and cooldown for 215 damage" why? your purpose is to harass them till they are low enough to kill. Shuriken isn't 215 damage. It has a scaling. Not the largest one, but it's a good one. I kind of made that point simply to show that his range is nothing to be made fun of, but your points made me cringe. "waste of resource" is nonsensical in lane when your resource is energy. Energy is designed to be super strong early, but usable over long teamfights only through careful management because of the high regen. Also, what do you mean with

" So just mashing the ranges of the two together to make it look long doesn't work, as you yourself have to be in range as well to make both shurikens connect."

It makes no sense to say i'm "mashing" two ranges. Does xerath suddenly have a short range because to reach his real range he needs to root himself or like you put it "mash his W with his other spells"? And again, "having to" hit both Q's is something you came up with yourself, and not a real prerequisite to playing him effectively. It's a strawman.

'If you wish to have your shadow not on cooldown forever, you have to hit minions with your E, which means yes you are " going to sit there in range of his spells all the time "'

Again, strawman. you don't "need" to sit in range of "his" spells. that's just a dumb assumption. you can cast W somewhere between the meele and ranged minions, and hit at least 3 targets twice, to shave of the "forever" cooldown.

"Additionally, 6 seconds in the lane of twitchers is a long time, especially if thats your only threatening spell. If a Kassadin misthrows his Q onto a minion, you can bet either Kass has to stay way back or the opponent is engaging already."

Yeah... perfect example, because kass's q totally affects the same range as zed's, and has the same utility. same cooldowns, and kass does have his ult so he's not super fucked. i think you can't really equate kass running out of mana with zed running out of energy, at least early, and it's not the only threatening skill he has, it's just the one with the most coverage by itself.