What If Kassadin Has an other Kind of Silence?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XKUrm8s-zbM
Something like Silencer's silence? in Dota2 Silencer is able to stop all sounds on the map, every single sound: -sound effects -spell sounds -ect...
This fits perfectly to null sphere because it would bring the target on a few seconds in a "null state" where they would be able to lose their audition.
feel free to add your thoughts...

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