User blog comment:Atmey/Netherblade Kassadin/@comment-220.255.2.27-20120624011114/@comment-3529242-20120624052137

Q does not proc Rylai nor spellvamp, and it goes on CD when he AA, so no he cant perma silence someone.

In this remake his W should be his main damage output, with some tanky/on-hits build.

LB nuke at level 9 (max Q) 583 + 1.56 ap, at lvl 16 642 + 1.74, just her Q+R (first portion of her R) she probably has the hugest single target nuke, and W does not charge E as it is a toggle now.

The R stacking has always been there and really hard to pull off, but yeah the additional ratio might be a little high.