02-22-2012, 10:10 PM
Kaden Wrote:If you actually do understand his strengths, then you should understand why he's banned. Assuming he has any idea how to play the champion, it's not a champion countered by one person. The entire team has to play appropriately (like with a Shaco or a Twitch or anyone like that) and that just rarely happens.
Thing about Kassadin is, you don't need team coordination to completely fuck him over. If you pick to counter him (which is basic gameplay in even solo queue) he won't be able to have that free reign to gank. If I have anyone with any sort of pushing power and have the creep wave pushed up to his tower the whole time and have my shit warded accordingly to make sure their jungler ganks won't get to me.
Kass doesn't have slightly decent wave clear until like... Level 11 and a needlessly large rod. Whereas a level 3 Morde, or a level 5 Cass can push the wave up easily. Aside from the fact that you can't walk away to gank bot when your lane is pushed up, even if he does try to do so he would be risking losing tower, or losing a good wave of around 7-12 minions. That in itself is almost 200-300 gold, as much as you'd get from a champion kill. Also if I did have the lane pushed up like that, I could easily go off and gank any lane I so please because Kassadin doesn't have any lane control when you have his wave pushed up to his tower.
There are many things you can do by yourself to completely shut down Kassadin's early game, and subsequently his mid and late game. I mean, unless your teammates go and get caught by him 4-5 times then he becomes a slightly bigger threat. Sure he's scary in team fights if you don't know where he is and if he's good he'll pick his spots, but if you keep him underfarmed in lane he won't do much damage in a team fight, and every time he casts he exposes himself to get targeted. He's a hard champion to play and there are many things you can do by yourself to shut him down.
I'm saying all of this assuming my team knows anything, which in a solo queue regard you're right. He may be deserving of a ban (but this is also assuming enemy team knows how to play him solidly). I understand where you're coming from, in solo queue he's definitely up there because teams don't coordinate and are frankly stupid most of the time. But you're looking at this too intelligently, at least 70% of the people that ban him do it because they think he's an utterly broken champion that snowballs to no end (which he does). And I guess that's what I've been arguing against the whole time.