Talk:Kassadin/@comment-26838478-20150805221018/@comment-1920550-20150806224032

He already suffers against a Talon or Zed or even Yasuo. You want to make him suffer even more?

And thank the gods they took Tear from his essencial items. The whole idea of trying to make him into a lesser Ryze was piss poor to begin with. Not only is the mana scaling bad, he takes forever to charge up a Tear, since his cooldowns until level 16 are way too high, when the Tear is a lategame item that favours champions who can charge it fast, such as Ori, Karthus, Anivia, etc.

Kassadin is an assassin. They are meant to strike quick and fast and snowball, trying to force him into building a slow scaling, lategame item kinda contradicts that. Although i think a Lich Bane gives Kassadin a better burst power than a Luden's especially due to the W.

If anything they should get rid of the Mana scaling entirely, since most Kassadin players don't actually build mana outside of a ROA and the occasional Lich Bane and the 1/1000 games Seraph's. And if by some miracle you can survive Kassa's laning phase and get a ROA/Seraph's combo off, without being 0/5/0 or your team being down an inhibitor, 1,200 damage for a 4 stack spell seems more than fair as a reward for that. Anivia deals even more damage with one Q or an empowered E when she has a ROA/Seraph combo. Karthus deals over 1k damage with his ult on everybody at lategame aswell and he also build a ROA/Seraph's combo.