Talk:Kassadin/@comment-24939516-20140514024512/@comment-15244341-20140516230105

The high armor means he isn't as vulnerable to AD champions in the midgame, which is really good since some, like Zed, can actually give him a headache before he gets Riftwalk at a high enough level. Also, the AoE slow bones many champions pretty hard (melees can't chase for crap thanks to Riftwalk on top of the slow and low mobility carries are not running away ever).

And I agree with YourPrivateNightmare. His laning phase against APs is pretty darn good and he can basically outtrade many of them. Against AD he should struggle, but since he never runs out of mana he can actually keep farming with Q and safe W for ever.