Talk:Kassadin/@comment-4542190-20140328102909

In my humble opinion, Riot completely destroyed Kassadin with these changes. I'll elaborate.

His damage was decreased even further (on Null Sphere and Force Pulse)- they decreased his damage in the previous patch too.

Taking away the silence from Null Sphere and giving it a shield that looks very weak, destroyed his chances of winning a mid lane match up. That it will just stop channeling spells is just useless imho, cause you'll get yourself in grave danger if you blink in to stop a channel-they can easily focus you down. And it's rarely that an enemy will use a channeling ability in situations where it would be relatively safer to blink in and interrupt (small skirmishes where numbers are equal or you have an advantage etc) and not keep it for full 5vs5 teamfights. Also, the removal of silence greatly diminished his ganking power as well.

Now the other changes were not bad (excluding the one on the passive) but giving the teleport ulti scaling on mana created a 2nd mini-Ryze. Kassadin now needs both Rod of Ages and Archangel's Staff/Seraph's Embrace (if they were core before, now they are hard-core) because he needs both larger manapool and AP to be effective. Getting these 2 items alone requires a lot of farm and they also need time to charge up. In a nutshell, Kassadin now needs equal (if not more) farming with the likes of Yi, Tryndamere etc to be any good.

He'll be in the same status now (rarely seen in a game), the difference being they turned him next to useless. Yesterday I saw LCS, the teams didn't bother banning him at all.