Talk:Kassadin/@comment-26539937-20150906042517/@comment-5955640-20150906052002

Hmmm.

If you are used to playing the tank role you could fit into playing Rengar. Out of all those choices he's the one with the largest amount of damage for a fairly flexible kit that offers utility and survivability and you can get familiar with the power of stealth as a way of initating which makes ganking easier than most.

He can be played top but as mentioned, post level six you'd do well to roam.

Kassadin has one spell that slows anyone hit by it's field but it has to be charged up by nearby spell casts so you need enemies who cast a lot of spells so it's never really down. The ult USED to be one of the biggest gap closers in the game but I'm pretty sure it's no longer that and repeated frequent uses cause a lot of mana loss which isn't very good.

Kassadin USED to have a spell that would silence opponents but now it simply disrupts casting channels. It stays as a main harass tool but it's no longer really strong. W costs no mana and lets you get mana back on auto attacks. Useful in lane but afterwards it's strictly a damage steroid.

He's very dependant on Mana which can be a handicapped and the reward is really based on who you are up against. Long channel mages with a lack of mobility will be someone you can look forward to fighting against. Everyone else it might be a harder fight but Kassadin is a general anti mage so you'll have to see how it works for yourself.

Zed might be harder for you to use. I hear it's back and forth. You have no mana so you don't worry about running out so the trick comes into how you harass mages and stay alive long enough to deliver death to them. Sustain and possibly buying magic resistance is very key in mid lane but if it's an AD champ you'll want to really wittle them down and almost never get caught.

Zed's ultimate is based purely on you having as many ways to deal damage to a person as possible in a short amount of time so you have to do all your combos correctly and you'll also have to make sure you use all your activates of which you should have a few. If you do this correctly you can kill any one person and if you get fed you can kill multiple people.

You didn't mention them but as a tank whose spreading into assassinating I would nominate Vi and Lee Sin. Those champs offer a lot of assassination potential when played correctly with nothing more than a couple key damage items. The new tank items should be really powerful on Vi meanwhile the ult buff on Lee Sin makes dragon kicking the tank into the marksman very satisfying.