Talk:Kassadin/@comment-4834593-20120902173530/@comment-89.214.170.12-20120905005258

You usually ban him when you play at low elo, because there are 4 ways to countering a kassadin: Long range champions with high damage base to exploit Kassadin weak early game, a good CC filled jungler, not feeding him kills before 6 or taking an AD mid. At low ELO, you can't trust your jungler, taking an AD mid is unreliable because people will refuse to take an AP top, and any Kassadin encountered there will most likely play very well. Long Range High Base Damage champs (LRHBD) are not hard counters, just have a fifty fifty chance, meaning with low jungler presence (you can expect that), it will be a battle of skill (consider point 4). Kassadin is a viable counter pick at high ELO, but an headache at low ELO, because the presence of a good one requires the interference of teammates, and you can't count on that. So you are just better off banning him until you are medium ELO/have good teammates.