And then you hit 6 and assuming your jungler was a cool guy who gave you blue buff, you win lane anyway.

Free Q harass all day erryday.

not true at all. Bruisers are the champions that hardcounter kassadin. AD carries might be able to zone him early, but once he gets some levels and base damage on his Q, they wont be able to match his harass. Bruisers can take his damage no problem, and deal a ton back since he is squishy.

Very few champs can stop a competent Kassadin from CSing.

Riot refuses to nerf Darius because Morello has a hand in his broken design. That is all. The only reason.

It's really not even difficult pre-6.

You run up and auto attack him and he's like, "Oh yeah, well here's a Null Sphere, jerk!"

Then you just tell him, "Yeah yeah, here's *insert your champion's harass spell here* and another two auto attacks for every CS you got."


Sure you'll take damage, but he'll take a lot more and because he's melee he can't CS while low, you can as a ranged champion. He also can't CS well using Null Sphere since its mana cost isn't too friendly and its cooldown isn't the best.


Beating Kassadin pre-6 is literally as simple as just auto attacking him all the time, after 6 is where things get difficult, since he gets free harass and around rank 3 is where Null Sphere harass starts hurting a lot.

I crush easily Kassadin with Anivia when it should be the other way around.

As far as I know they're at least planning on changing some things on his kit to make him less frustrating, just the problem is reworks and changes take a very long time to do.


Doing them right and actually solving the problem without causing others or making the champion too strong or weak is a time consuming process that requires many, many iterations and lots of testing, thus it takes a very long time to do.


That's why he hasn't changed, since it isn't a quick process.

he can't harass anyone with Q anymore except annie and maybe brand because of the range nerf

I haven't seen a single LeBlanc with DFG...

She can do a lot of burst without it anyway.

You R into Q range and fire Null Sphere and immediately back off. 650 range is good enough for you to not get hit by a targeted ability and if you're paying attention you can most likely juke a skill shot retaliation if they fire in your Q''s travel time.

The range on your Q almost doesn't matter, it's adding the 700 range on your ultimate and suddenly you have a 1,350 range targeted harass. It's mana intense, but that's what blue buff is for.