Talk:Kassadin/@comment-26489540-20150810061636/@comment-26001789-20150815202308

The problem is that Kassadin can potentially need 7.5k worth of gold in items to be effective while some TopLaners are good enough getting to 6. Take Rumble for an example, a very popular AP TopLaner. He can work with just a Haunting Guise and Sorcboots while having 6. Kassadin with a Tear and a RoA at a similar time will not do the same ammount of damage or be as effective compared to him. He just takes way too much time to scale up. But if you can, somehow, pick him into a Match where he will not be bullied or that he can bully, like Lissandra or Malphite, he will do fine enough.