Talk:Kassadin/@comment-15280970-20140802084023/@comment-4834593-20140807114607

Actually, I want to disagree here. Kassadin can be balanced while keeping his ultimate. Not while he stays a burst mage though.

Remember his old passive, from before the partial rework or whatever you want to call it? It granted attack speed. And his old W? It gave bonus damage on autoattacks for a few seconds. Removed because it's not useful for a burst mage, but he can't stay a burst mage anyways with this ultimate, because he can jump, deal ALL his damage for 9 seconds in as little as one second, and then jump out again almost immediately.

So we bring back these old mechanisms, rework his Q and E to fit on an AD carry/assassin, and there we have AD carry Kassadin, who survives not by staying at a distance, like other AD carries, but by dancing around the battlefield to the least dangerous places.