Talk:Kassadin/@comment-8921599-20140116110242/@comment-5489694-20140120140118

I'm guessing they want him to remain an anti-mage so they're trying to retain the mechanics that allow him to be an anti-mage. He's absuredly strong atm mainly because of how the game is played popularly, burst casters and spell slingers alone in the middle lane and that's what Kass is mainly good against. Faced against solo champions like Cho and Graves (champions not entirely reliant on spells to fight, are capable of pushing waves quickly, and have solid tower damage) Kassadin doesn't seem insanely strong.

Kassadin is also terrible 1v2. A Kassadin player can work around facing a 1v2 by going to another lane though, but Kassadin has a disadvantage in the side lanes also. Soooo it's not the kit it's the "meta". I honestly consider his kit averagely strong because it sucks at farming; lacks aoe, great burst or sustained damage and it's basically all melee. Since Kass is allowed to do the only thing he's good at he snowballs and seems stronger than he actually is.