Talk:Kassadin/@comment-10428734-20140425023602

The Q should silence for 0.5 second like Blitz ult. In game the visual effect does not feel like it should cancel channels. If I were a new player and I picked Kassadin, I would probably would not realize that his Q is an interrupt at all. And if I picked Katarina, I would probably not understand why my Death Lotus was cancelled while nothing suggested that I was disabled. Isn't that some kind of "hidden" power, as Riot often says about everything?

Then, yeah, Kass still needs some changes to his numbers imo: shield duration up, R stack duration down (reducing the AP scaling to 60-70% a bit if needed), probably a little bit more base damage to his E (when a spell has a such a specific cast restriction, you would except it to be a bit more rewarding). I'd also like to see the old innate back, with the bonus AS. It would give his W passive another purpose than just making last-hitting under tower easier, and maybe open for some Nashor-based builds.

Oh, and get rid of that mana scaling on his ult. Honestly, it does not feel like it should be there (plus with a 1200 mana cost, you already have a big incentive to build mana anyways), it's just way too unnoticeable, even when stacking mana. I'd rather have no scaling at all than a gimmicky mana ratio that seems to be just here because "everything in LoL shall have a scaling", even if that scaling makes no sense (Sunfire's scaling per level, Randuin's active duration scaling with resistances, slow decay on Lulu's Q scaling with AP... I'm still waiting for Ashe's arrow's stun duration scaling with hp5).

Btw do you feel like RoA is still good? New Kass really needs a LB, and quite a lot of AP to make his scalings work, so when you buy Catalyst on top of Tear, you feel sooooo useless for sooooo long. Straight AP is more risky but at least you can outdamage your jungler (not even sure with Feral Flare though).