Talk:Kassadin/@comment-1990160-20140319012701/@comment-6016076-20140319030327

Coming from Dominion, you should know how OP Kassadin was. Furthermore, old Kass had more than enough damage as it was. His most common Dominion build was tanky AP with a Frozen Heart for a while. 2.0 AP scaling is still better than TF and more than enough to assassinate squishies - which, believe it or not, was his actual role all along.

Kass was raw OP, perma-banned in every part of the world. Now, they have cemented him as an anti-mage assassin. Gone are the days where he shits on every single person on the map indiscriminately. Gone are the days where rift walk stacking was just for funsies because you had enough damage without it. Gone are the days where you stack mana so you can press R whenever you feel like, oops maybe you happen to ace their team while you're at it, or hey maybe you change your mind at the last moment and just poke with Q - no big deal you have tons of mana. People complain about Talon's lack of counterplay with his 0.5 second silence; don't even get started on Kass's old Q.

Kass is going to be weak if you expect him to perform as before. He's designed to take out AP, AD will counter him; his ult stacks are now necessary to assassinate; the longer duration ult stacks facilitate this as well as shackle his OP mobility. Riot will be tweaking him over time, but the overall direction is sensible. A perma-banned champion is unhealthy on so many levels for the game. Kass was perma-banned in soloqueue and competitive. At the end of the day, Eve'ing him would have been preferable to having done nothing.