Kass armor nerfs

I saw a lot of people laughing and joking about how silly those nerfs to Kass armor base and growth looked.

Now I'm not exactly certain how everything works, but, I too, thought those nerfs wouldn't mean much.

I was low diamond, I'm pretty awful I know, and I play kass sometimes when he's available. I'm probably just horrible at Kassadin anyways but Let me tell you, when you play Kass vs a jayce or zed or talon now, you are going to feel the pain.

There is almost NOTHING that will keep your butt in lane. No potion, no playing safe, hiding under your turret. Just take TP and use it on cooldown to try to get farm. There is no amount of armor or HP i could've built to toe to toe their fed ADC or their renekton or their Jayce at any point in the game.

I won the game I'm referring to by making smart picks, which is probably how Kassadin should be played.

However, I built zhonyas and iceborne gauntlet fairly early. I had the seraphs staff shield also. I also built an abyssal mask for HP and MR. I hit a Lucian with multiple maxxed out lvl 16 ults, used seraphs shield, and my full combo. Now I must say i got hit for an 800 damage karthus ult while dueling him, but I didn't even break the Lucian's GA before he melted me. I almost did though.I couldn't go NEAR the renekton at any point in the game even full build (tanky)

The jayce absolutely SLAMMED me in lane it was embarassing. It took me so long to catch up its a miracle the game went long enough.

Now Kassadin has ATROCIOUS base damage to his spells and abilities. A giant chunk of his damage comes from multiple uses of his ult. That's fine, it means he's a lategame scaling champion. He's kept this way to keep him in line. Currently AD mids are very common, and I'm just warning you. If you lock kassadin, and they lock an AD mid.... ouch. Good luck playing that game.