AD Kassadin for reasons

Ketaku·5/11/2015, 6:46:10 AM·2 votes·641 views

AD Kassadin idea, mainly for shits and giggles.

This idea originates from one game where I was playing top lane Kass and decide "Screw it, I'mma get a Triforce on this." My idea works best in top lane, but could potentially mid. Build could be something like Blade of the Ruined King, Frozen Mallet, Trinity Force, Frozen Heart, Banshee's Veil, and any kind of boot. There are some situational things you can do, such as in a low danger lane stack a Tear of the Goddess for Muramana.

My reasoning for these items is as follows:

Bork: Good attack speed, strong counter tank item, active is strong for kite/counter kite

Frozen Mallet: HP, AD, and on hit slow, it's a good item on most AD champs

Triforce: The main reason for this is the strong Sheen damage, but Phage and attack speed both help.

Frozen Heart: A lot of Mana, Armor, and CDR. It's obvious with this one.

Banshee's: Some nice Health and MR with one free buffer

Boots are obvious, so I'll skip these.

Muramana: Ton of mana and AD based on mana.

Iceborn Gauntlet: A substitute for either Tri or Frozen Mallet, it works because of its strong mana and armor and a good sheen proc.

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I'll take my leave for now and hope for any suggestion from anybody.

8 Comments

DrNova5/11/2015, 6:49:50 AM1 votes

You listed a bunch of obvious reasons for a normal top to take normal top things, but in no way explained any reasoning for AD Kass

Only Play Darius5/11/2015, 7:33:09 AM1 votes

He gets on-hit damage for building AP.

He has literally NO reason to build AD.

MLDzXnRRR5/11/2015, 9:41:57 AM1 votes

I;ve seen Ad kassadin to carry. He build Tiaman into IE, then LW and more crit.

Hasztalan25/11/2015, 11:26:52 AM1 votes

I palyed AD kassa be4 his last W rework and it was pretty darn powerful. Now with the new shitty W which is only good for onhit proccing i think he is forever labelled as a pure ap now. Sadly.

thinking man5/11/2015, 11:29:03 AM1 votes

If you wanna play AD Kassadin you should go Murumana/Gauntlet/Frozen Heart/situational tank items

It's more of a mana Kassadin, but it's about a 50/50 split for physical/magical and the damage itself is still pretty high. The only thing about it is it does shit damage until Murumana transforms. Also remember to stay on Tear for as long as possible but always upgrade Murumana whenever it's extremely close.

4nth0l0gy5/11/2015, 11:33:09 AM1 votes

Unfortunately, kass doesn't have any AD ratios anymore. His only AD benefits are his mobility and his autoattack reset on W, and both of those are better utilized with an AP build.

If youre set on it, go for it; I just think it's inferior to AP kass in most ways.