Talk:Kassadin/@comment-15280970-20140203014056/@comment-15280970-20140215213118

Archangels is essential on kassadin and will always be because of his inmense mana costs. ROA is a choice for tankiness, mana and a smoother laning phase with catalyst.

"Kiting" kassadin and "Using escapes" isn't in anyway a general strategy to counter him. You can't kite slowed (can't kite 5s flash). You can't escape silenced. And blinking on top of the ADC is something every kassadin does if he can kill him. Some adc's don't have instant escapes or will be cc'ed or will have burned flash.

And blinking on top of the adc is very easy, think of fizz, leblanc and zed.

What to do then? With the nerfs an unfed kassadin can't 100-0 a decently farmed carry from 1 combo. So kassadin will mostly wait for the front line to deal some damage to a squishy before all-in. Just rush a Negatrons cloak and try not to get low.