Question: How many patches of nerfs does it take to fix a champion?

THe answer is! One Failure of a Balance team!

In lieu of the recent kassadin nerf, I'd like to point out HOW MANY tries the balance team had to fix him and HOW MANY times they failed over and over.

And keep in mind, this is AFTER the re-work and around the same time I picked him up ( you can imagine my horror, just starting to like a champion and he gets nerfs after nerfs)

patch 4.4 Kassadin Reworked

Patch 4.6

Q: Magic damage shield increased to 40 / 80 / 120 / 160 / 200 (+80% AP) from 40 / 70 / 100 / 130 / 160 (+30% AP). ( Context: "Kassadin's theme is an "anti-mage" and we want to enforce that)

W: Active damage increased to 40 / 75 / 110 / 145 / 180 (+70% AP) from 40 / 65 / 90 / 115 / 140 (+60% AP).

patch 4.7

Q: Shield strength reduced to 40 / 70 / 100 / 130 / 160 (+30% AP) from 40 / 80 / 120 / 160 / 200 (+80% AP) ( Straight from patch notes "Just reverting a few buffs, nothing special.... hee hee")

patch 4.9

Movement speed reduced to 340 from 350 ( Because, he has MUH mobility with his ulti)

W: Active damage reduced to 40 / 65 / 90 / 115 / 140 (+60% AP) from 40 / 75 / 110 / 145 / 180 (+70% AP) ( is this how you waste patches riot?)

patch 4.12

W: cooldown increased to 9 seconds from 6 ( ok, now they nerf his only melee damage)

E: Slow duration reduced to 1 second from 3. Slow strength increased by 10% at all levels ( nerf his cc)

patch 4.14

Empowerment stack duration increased to 20 seconds from 12. ( This was the change everyone believed was neccessary, and riot does it at long last)

patch 5.3

Q: Damage reduced to 70/95/120/145/170 from 80/105/130/155/180 ( apparently they didn't have "enough time" in season 4 so they continued)

aaand finally the icing on the cake, kassadin now has a blink with the same range as a dash. ( on pbe )

Srsly? You had your way with a FULL rework and 6 patches ( throughout 8 months) to UNDERSTAND HIS KIT, and you're STILL not done???

This is STUPID. Kassadin is hardly the problem, hell can now dash faster than kassadin can riftwalk if they're kiting. Kassadin "was" VERY strong in season 3, but if you're gonna make him Unviable, then I have a list of champions that I'd like to see become unviable due to how OP they were for seasons due to their stupid utility and safety