Anyone know what the 4th lowest win rate champion is right now?
If you guessed Kassadin, you would be absolutely correct. Kassadin's current win rate is 43.78%. The only champions with lower win rates are Azir, Elise, and Ryze in that order.
I know that at some points that Kassadin was stylized as Kassawin, but come on people. He is literally the worst assassin in the game. Some argue that he has to trade off damage for his mobility. To those people, please look at Leblanc. She is almost equally as slippery, yet has what feels like 3-5 times the damage of Kassadin.
It doesn't help that his spells have pretty high cooldowns for their damage levels. Or that the way his kit currently works, he is forced into this weird mana mage tank thing, that has almost no synergy with his kit, except he needs it to be able to ult (with its reduced range, and its huge cost), and that since his spells deal peanut damage, he has to be tanky just so that he can get off what little damage that he does have.
If in the current state of the game, an assassin like Leblanc is allowed to exist, then I think we can safely buff Kassadin without him becoming game breaking. (and TBH, people really like to knee-jerk with Kassadin. Just because he was incredibly OP at one point, it doesnt mean that he is some super mega death champ. Seriously, take a breather before you condemn Kassadin. Don't nitpick reasons why Kassadin "can never be allowed to see consistent gameplay". If a Kassadin roams botlane and kills you, its your fault, not the champions fault. Buy some MR and ward a little, you jerk.
Sincerely, a hopeful Kassadin player
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