Talk:Kassadin/@comment-6374626-20130211114526/@comment-88.186.19.90-20130213150125

The opponent will just AA you for twice the damage you deal with your Q at level 3, even if you take AP runes and start with amp tome. If the support decides to AA alongside the carry you'll be forced to recall. That's how bad kassa is earlygame.

If you build GP5, you won't have enough mana to stack riftwalks. If you buy mana, you won't have enough money to buy anything else. Lets imagine you get really lucky and manage to get a Tear, and you manage to fill it. You'll be able to stack riftwalk 4 times for a total of 300 damage before running out of mana. Unless you were planning to riftwalk ON the opponents 4 times in a row, but if you do that you'll be dead before you can pull off the third stack.

Seriously, if you want to play kassa differently than in a solo lane; try to play him in the jungle, it's the only place he isn't utterly crushed by non-APs. Bot lane is already a big no considering he'll be facing ranged ADs and needs as much XP as possible, and support is even worse because Kassa needs gold.