Talk:Kassadin/@comment-7118467-20140416222902/@comment-24055932-20140422030033

If you are in fight, every second matters. If you aren't tanky and have to go straight into the enemies face, you either need a special way to bypass getting focussed by the whole team, as else you'll be dead within 1~2 seconds. Kassadins only possibility to do something like that is by ulting into range, getting off as much burst as possible, and then ulting back again, maybe with a Zhonyas added into it to cover the cooldown.

Within this time, even if you stretch it as much as possible, you maximally will get off your whole kit once - more likely only q and w, resulting into 1.4 AP safe burst and 2.2 AP suicide burst. Especially for an assassin, his base damage is absolutly sad, therefore you'll need quite a lot of AP to get your abilities to hurt.

Now let's assume you play really good, get to an isolated enemy. If you now do your full burst, you won't even get a non MR Adc unless you got 600 or more AP with a suicide combo (assuming 0 MR on adc and 10 Mpen in runes). With your high cooldowns, you can't stick around - 5 seconds free damage for the adc are just way too high, it is questionable if you will survive. Therefore you'll go for a safe burst first, r in, q, e, r out. Now your assault already has taken 5 seconds, you'll now have to wait 2 more seconds, your r already costs 300 mana, getting out of the fight will cost you then 600 mana. Therefore you now take multiple risks: If there will be another enemy champion around, you'll be absolutly fucked, and if the enemy is running straight away from you, you will hardly get the possibility to get off your full burst.

So, in 9/10 cases (means unless you got 6 items or are fed as shit) even under perfect initial circumstances, your kit will fail you.