Talk:Kassadin/@comment-31.23.221.145-20120817141749/@comment-88.186.19.90-20120817224623

AD quints, AD marks, autoattack him constantly and force him out of lane pre-6, throw any point-and-click spells you have at him too. When he comboes you post-6, autoattack him. Denying XP is more important than gold (though you obviously shouldn't let him freefarm): I can ALWAYS make a comeback with Kass even if I'm at 20 CS against 80 at level 6 (it's ont uncommon for me to be at half my opponent CS when I hit 6), but if I'm two levels behind it becomes extremely hard do do anything impacting.

You CANNOT win a duel in lane against him, so your 2 solutions are either to kill him first if you manage to catch him, or just to completely ignore him and farm and gank with less power than he does. His pushing power isn't that high until he gets a Rabadon, so don't hesitate to just farm and push the lane and then recall before he can kill you. An early HP item like Giant's Belt/catalyst helps a long way to your survival, because you can tank 2 of his combos while you push mid with your spells, go gank a lane, recall, come back mid to depush and start again... Either way Kass is a hard counter to AP mids, so just do what you do best depending on your champ and avoid feeding kills.

Ward your bushes so you can tell your mates when he will gank. He can jump over walls, so you have to determine where he is going to go early on before he thinks about bypassing any wards other lanes have placed. Ward him like you would ward a Twisted Fate: just at the enemy jungle entrances.

You can't really shut down a Kassadin like you can shut down a Nasus or Poppy early, he can always come back like Morde does because his ganks are so good, but like morde he can feed you and your jungler a few kills early, so if you have CC coordinate with the jungler and use that advantage to deny him XP as much as possible. Similarly many junglers like to babysit Kass until his level 6 so beware of unexpected early ganks when baiting.