Talk:Kassadin/@comment-137.99.170.218-20110503161157/@comment-203.206.20.51-20110504083255

i play ad/hyrbrid kass as often as i play straight ap. my general build for an ad kass would be something like this : Manamune, Nashors Tooth , Gunblade (these are your core )  , then it all depends on if you want to be very ad focused ,or a even mix of ad/ap , and of course what your opponents are. Boots are a matter of preference, beserk greaves will add to your AS , sorc shoes will help your abilities remain useful despite the ad focus , or you could simply get more speed and get swift or mobility boots. A deathcap and frozen heart are good 5th and 6th item choices. you should have a bit under 400 ap and about mid 200s ad with those items. you can drop the deathcap for another attackspeed item like a phantom dancer, youl still have around 130 ap or so. or a ghostblade, infinity edge or another gunblade can all work. otherwise a banshee veil or rod of ages are both good choices to give you some more survivability AND importantly more mana which with manamune adds to your AD and of course lets you use your riftwalk over and over. AD kass is perfectly viable, you simply need to approach him slightly differently. Your abilities are there to assist in the kill rather then earn it, your Q will soften them up and silence them while your E will add another small burst and slow. You activate your W and then engage like any other normal dps mele champ, exhaust is a useful spell to give you the time you need to finish someone off. CDR is essential, thus the nashors tooth and frozen heart , your Q  and R will be what gives you your advantage over other dps , not many others have silences so readily available , nor such a spamable warp ability. The goal is to use your abilities in conjunction with your often supprising mele capabilities to overwhelm an opponent, thus not giving them time to see how rather fragile you actually are. Mage champs will have an especially hard time against you, because not only is kass a natural anti-mage already due to his silence and passive , but unlike others such as ryze , fiddlesticks , annie , he is quite deccent in mele , and after both of you have fired off your spells at each other and are waiting on cooldowns , kass will be able to jump in theif face and hack them down while they will have extremely useless autoattacks in comparasion