I'm a Kass player and I want those changes to go in [LONG RANT]

J Eevo··8 votes·787 views

And you might ask "Why do you want these changes to go in? Do you really believe a 15mana reduction on his ult is worth lowering it's range so much?" And the answer would simply be no. But what we have seen time and time again is that the balance team has** NO IDEA** how they want to balance Kassadin and the last changes that they made were aimed at his Damage. The rework brought his damage down by a TON but I still thought it was a good rework nonetheless, as you had different options, we saw some new cool builds and he actually seemed more fun to play, when you actually went into melee range to burst someone with Lichbane it felt rewarding because of his new W. And yet we saw his damage decline time and time again after numerous nerfs.

Let me just remind you that when you take base damage, AP scaling and CD into consideration, I'd go as far as to say Kassadin has the worst damage out of all mages, and ad casters that frequent the midlane. He also has some of the worst CD to Damage ratios with his skills having a really big downtime(QW long cd,E having to stack,R having to wait to lose the stacks).

The problem with his damage was never the numbers, his numbers after the rework were ALWAYS crappy

HOWEVER

His damage is very reliable and has additonal effects pinned to the skills. -His Q is a targeted skill and also gives you an AP shield -His W regenerates mana and gives you additonal ap scaling on your AAs -his E has a slow and is a wide, easy to hit cone

the ONLY problematic and out of whack component was his ult which had it's cd LOWERED after the rework but essentially does damage only in the early game and lategame is used only for mobility and Lichbane procs as it scales with mana and scales very badly

and yet time and time again the balance team nerfed his damage and then his shield and then his slow

NOW FINALLY they take a look at his ult

And you know what? I want that god awfull ult change to go in BECAUSE it will make Kassadin garbage BECAUSE MAYBE THEN they'll figure HUH WE MIGHT HAVE MADE A MISTAKE

7 Comments

junglerboy161 votes

If they hit his Ult hard enough, maybe they'll double back and give him more options on his other abilities like more damage, better shield, better CDs, etc. and make him viable and balanced.

Solidair31 votes

Maybe with his ult gutted they can give him some damage back. And then bam, balance.

Solaxo1 votes

I miss old pre-season 1 times when Kassadin was considered weak (!) :/

Borbland1 votes

Kassadin low damage ?

That's not true, people compare his damage to the damae he was dealing before and of course it is lower, because he was the most broken champ in league before.

Seriuosly, nobody complaining about Riven or Akali because that guy existed and draw all focus of Riven and Akali.

He got nerfed and no one played him. I played after rework Kassadin while being the first time playing him at all, and he was totally fine:

As you said, very sure damage, no skillshot, high mobility etc.

With a Lich Bane, his damage were insane, I don't know why people were complaining about him dealing no damage, that's totally not true.

J Eevo1 votes

I personally go for a very glass cannon build, rushin sheen then branching off into either ROA when I think I need more time to build up or straight up LB when my lane opponent seems vulnerable, I barely build any mana AT ALL barring ROA, the proposed league build seems to delay his power way too much (waiting for ROA stacks and simultaneously stacking tear while being effectively starved for damage in the meantime)

With that being said it's more of a result of his kit damage being awfull and having to compensate for it than anything, without LB the damage doesn't come even close to similar APs and even with it you have to string spells in a way to effectively use LB to make the most of it.

I still played him to GREAT success, but that's more because of his reliability in both running away and jumping in to get the easy kill that allows him to snowball.

His damage numbers are straight up bad when compared to other champions, It's the way he can more easily than anyone sling them towards you that makes him viable if anything

Borbland1 votes

I personnaly built him with Archangel staff them ROA the maximize the mana passive for maximum AP.

Workes really well.

Akali is SO HOT1 votes

They won't realize they made a mistake though and he will be kept like that for the next year or so. They probably have realized they made a mistake with Olaf, Eve, Akali, Shaco, Yasuo, Skarner, etc. but they don't really care and are too lazy to do anything about it.

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