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Dovahkiin416··2 votes·450 views

Kassadin

Most people that I've talked to have described him as weak, but I disagree.

I've been playing him lately and I think he is very strong, and very underplayed.

He is very easy to CS with because of his W, it has no mana cost, and actually restores mana upon hitting a minion. His laning phase really isn't that bad if you just play smart and wait for your power spikes. He gets an easy shield from his Q to help with trading as well. Not to mention he gets basically an unlimited flash at level 6, as long as you have the mana for it. His ult is an amazing gap closer or escape tool. At max rank with 45% CDR it's at about a 1 second CD. No one can catch that.

The build I've been going with is this: item 3158 item 3027 item 3040 item 3100 item 3165 item 3089 item 2139

It gives me about 900 AP, and 45% CDR. My W with this will do very close to 1200 damage per hit, on about a 3 or 4 second CD. An enourmous shield and poke with my Q, and a nice slow with my E with some damage. Plus, I can basically ult whenever I need to, for almost an endless amount of time it seems.

In conclusion, I feel like Kassadin is a very strong champion at the moment, if built correctly. He is very feast or famine though, but from my experience, playing safe in lane, and just farming up makes him unstoppable mid to late game.

What do you guys think about him?

6 Comments

venomous frost1 votes

theres no way a ranged champion will let you farm up early game takes way too long to get going because he needs a lot of items, and he doesnt have a good laning phase.

Jinzo Torrance1 votes

Yeah, people don't realize Q CD early is low (9 seconds) and offers a magic shield (so if opponent is a mage he will automatically win trades in most cases). After 6 he can roam and get kills in sidelane so he can start to snowball. But most Kass player use Q always for minions and get so bullied that need to back or give first blood.

Evewynn1 votes

He is pretty good, though not great in a lot of matchups. Definitely a late game champ through and through, making up for his relatively weak early game for crazy potential.

oSEXYPLATYPUSo1 votes

issue is by the time you stack item 3070 and item 3027 and farm enough to get the rest of your items its very late game. and the old strategy vs Kassadin is to camp him and kill him as many times as possible before he reaches lvl 6. so you delay his ability to stack his items and farm because he has little to no kill treat before lvl 6 and really dont do anything til about lvl 9. similar to a Nasus top you never let him have afree lane. that is why early game dominate ad champs like Pantheon Talon are natural counters to a Kassadin

Dovahkiin4161 votes

I always get item 3070 ASAP. I back as soon as I have enough for it, then tp back to lane.

As for item 3027, this is my first item. I let it stack while I also stack my tear.

With proper harass from my Q, I can pretty much CS to my wits content.

I've yet to face a counter with him, but I dread when I do.

oSEXYPLATYPUSo1 votes

Kass is considered an anti mage meant to counter mages while being an assassin. He is bad vs pantheon and talon.

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