Talk:VPBE/@comment-25714442-20150220112946/@comment-25904283-20150221154714

Riven might not have the mobility of Kass, but she has much much higher burst (both in base damage and scaling) and she has AoE hard CCs.

Kassadin is already a "fake" assassin. While champions like Kata, Akali, LB has enough base damage to function as an assassin right after level 6, pathetic is word to describe Kass base damage. He's the most item reliant out of all assassins, and even with full build, he stays as the one with worst burst. It is the 700 range ult that keeps him strong. 450 range means you can rarely use W on a squishy in team fight - making his burst even worse. Even if he can use W, let's compare his 2.1 AP single burst and 0.7 AoE burst to LB QWR, with relatively same range, near 2.4 AP single burst, near 1.6 AoE burst and nearly double base damage.

He can only remain strong if they remove R increase cost and make its CD go up (to 10/8/6) so he can function as a normal mage without the need to rush RoA every single game.