Talk:Kassadin/@comment-115.64.31.150-20130217092657/@comment-37.128.215.240-20130218134350

One quick correction to what's been mentioned above; the burst vs sutained damage is the complete reverse, Kassa has BOTH and he's VERY efficient at making use of it. His RQE combo will generally shave off half your enemies health pool at equal level and item progression in SECONDS.

If you gain just a small level and item advantage, you will absolutely decimate your enemies as Kassadin. One combo is very likely to force them to retreat. Playing against skill-shot champs becomes a joke, seeing as you can simply Riftwalk over their abilities and trade against them without risking losing any health. His burst is simply immense mid to late-game.

Akali functions somewhat differently. She actually has next to no burst whatsoever(which becomes very clear the further you get into the game). She has far more sustained damage than Kassadin. Her ulti is a testament to that; she needs to apply several of her Q's, land a couple of ultis, auto attacks and E's in-between. She has to follow you across the lane just to kill you - and that's exactly why she's been given such a great chasing tool in her ulti.

Make no mistake, she will kill you rather quickly early game! But it'll take her a "long" time (speaking of in-game time). Kassadin's combo takes about 2 seconds to perform, with 2 button presses. Akali has no high-damage skill whatsoever, and she needs 6+ button presses to be as effective.

Nevermind the fact that Akali, unfortunately, starts off weak, then suddenly PEAKS at mid game, when she gets her ulti, and simply falls off more and more as you reach late-game. By the 30-40 min mark, she'll be significantly less useful, and by 50 mins she's completely useless. Kassadin, on the other hand, starts off weak, gains some power mid-game, and becomes GODLIKE late-game. He scales amazingly well and his kit is simply fantastic for team fights and assassination.

You'll never catch him unless you spend excessive amounts of resources on doing so.

He fights you when he wants to.

You won't out-trade him.

You won't out-run him.

He will find you...

And he will kill you...