Talk:Kassadin/@comment-9705522-20150513122731/@comment-9705522-20150519204019

The issue is that it limits his build choice. I would for example love to pick up Athenes (30% on each kill is quite huge), but since it scales with mana for no good reason, that means I lose damage on top of Athenes low AP count (which makes it even weaker as an item). It also serves no purpose other than limiting his build. Remove the mana scaling and give it base damage. Same thing, but now you can choose to not build RoA every game and not suffer from it.

I think either A, remove it completely and compensate base damage, or B, remove it and replace it with a small AP scaling (it doesnt have to be much).

Also, this is not the first time Kassadin was balanced. Throughout season 2, and some of season 1 i believe, Kassadin was perfectly balanced as well. His reign of terror came later. And thats back when Kassadins ult had a 0.8 per AP scaling.