The RIOT Act

[Mr. Zhu]

Well the thing about Kass is that he doesn't need really early farm, if he can get a kill or two early on in lane phase. That pretty much lets him zone the other AP enough that he can catch up on CS and just be in front.
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He's really not as strong as everyone thinks he is in lane. Unless the opposing mid lane champion has no available harass, Kass gets pretty fucked up in lane. Before level 6, Kass really has no kill potential, even with a jungler and. I would argue that Kass's ultimate becomes kind of an achilles heel, because he has to R close to get in range to do damage, but if you R at the wrong moment he gets his ass kicked. Personally whenever I see a Kass R forward to aggro, I start chunking his ass, because after his one hit wonder cast he has nothing at all.

Kass's kit is not at all designed for early game domination against other mid lanes. In a 1v1 situation, I argue that just about every mid lane champion wrecks his face. Really, in essence he's still an assassin, without a tanks distraction or the element of surprise, it's almost impossible to kill people. That's why he mainly resorts to cherry picking early kills (mid and bot lane) into snowballing the entire game. However, that makes him quite a weak champion imo, definitely undeserving of an insta-ban in every game.