Talk:Kassadin/@comment-178.203.85.127-20120507080639/@comment-88.186.19.90-20120507174832

Push his tower if he leaves you alone on his lane and warn SS. Kass isn't broken like that: if he perma-ganked top and bot, they should have warded and farmed under their turrets when you call SS, making Kass loose time walking over to their lane for nothing since towerdiving is always risky; and you should have pushed mid like crazy with the help of your jungler to actually take down mid tower.

You said you denied him, but what was the actual CS difference? 10? 20? 5? Good Kass players know they are weak early, and just concentrate on keeping up on their CS with little to no regards for anything else, even if they feed a kill. With you crazy range on death ray and free anti-retaliation shield on your Q, you should have been able to outpoke and zone him soooo hard; sometimes it's better to zone Kassa than kill him pre-6, just to prevent him from snowballing. Don't bother following him when he is going to gank, if he wanted to he could have turned around and killed you before continuing to top/bot lane: just powerfarm, push his lane, THEN go gank yourself the lane YOU want to gank with no regards for Kassa whatsoever (preferably the lane where kassa isn't at, obviously).

Was your team actually good? I know the "U mad u bad" adage, but sometimes your teammates feed more than what's reasonable, or the opponent is just too good, or your team composition wasn't optimal: even if Kassa doesn't care, the HP pool and resistances actually have an impact on how efficient he is. Same thing for picks: if botlane was a Janna+Ashe, then it was a free meal for Kass each time he went bot, but a Caitlyn+Taric would have been a different story altogether. Don't hesitate to send the top laner mid if Kassa has it good against you.