Kassadin 101

  Kassadin is probably the closest thing you can find to a fighter/tank/mage/nuker, even Ezreal is incomparable.

 

With the proper equips, masteries, and runes he'll really be "  Truly Legendary"

  The damage reduction is great, especially the secondary part where it transforms damage into ia (increased attack speed)

  Null sphere is definitely an annoying skill to those who know how to use it, my advice would be to spam, spam, oh and spam. The only thing I wish they added is +1 AP for each minion kill, and +5 for every Hero kill! :)

I usually get 1 level of Nether Blade at level 4, then a second at 12-15, it usually depends on how your opponents are, if they are tanks they you might have to fill this up before Force Pulse, if they are casters (or people who run away a lot) then Force Pulse is the way to go.    In the event you are about to engage a caster or dps, you should use Force Pulse after Null Sphere BEFORE hitting your opponent, this is because within the 15 seconds you guys are fighting, 6 spells can be casted within just 5. So you want to achieve as much damage as possible to give yourself a one up for the fight.       This skill, IS NOT OP...... well maybe it is if you know how to use it correctly. The lowest cd (cool down) riftwalk can get to is 3 seconds I believe, that's cutting it in half, and when you get frozen heart which reduces cd by 25%, the cd only goes to 3, sorry not 1.5. Did I also mention Rift Walk counts towards Force Pulse?   This really shows how powerful Kassadin is, when the game developers themselves can't come up with a counter for a hero. A lot of people say if you take Rift Walk out, Kassadin is pretty much crap afterwards. Well why would you take it out to begin with? It's like Shaco's deceive which he can get at level 1, there's always counters to Kassadin's ult, which can be silence, or stuns. Just pray your lucky enough to ally a Kassadin who's not dumb enough to avoid those. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Some people may not know, well actually most of you, that it's not all about point n clicks, I actually check my targets for defense. Yup, NEVER THOUGHT OF THAT DID YA? So your going against 2 squishies, Ashe and Yi, you're probably going to harass Ashe as much as possible, (cause nobody cares about Yi) well it just so happens that she has defense runes and masteries, so you'd be wasting all of early game harassing her when you could to Yi.  Remember squishies are so easy to kill, your null sphere does 100 damage, and they have 400-600 hp, within 7 well placed null spheres and ignite, your good. For my picks on summoner skills, click here.