One of the best guides i ever saw legit . Very nice colab . Nagyon jó volt a vidi . Az akcentusrol rajöttem hogy magyar vagy . Jó in dept guide , hasznos volt nagyon ,köszönjük! Keep it up both . Gj! Come up with the likes ppl ...
@@jadoniccryon5898 I believe it's not worth to go, as it doesn't provide a lot of sustain early (even with movespeed it doesn't make up for lack of combat rune), and gets outperformed by combat runes in fights. If you take it for sidelane sustain with precision page then you could just go roa with conq instead and both have more sustain and do more dmg
It's hard to believe that this is free content. I'm so grateful. I don't even play or intend to play Kassadin, yet I watched the whole thing because I find it so valuable to learn about the game itself.
These guides are amazing, they're so much more in-depth than everything else on RU-vid. I know your content is not really meant for low elo players, but with your Annie guide I was able to reach Gold for the first time in Season 10 and I had a lot of fun.
As an 1M+ Mastery OTP Kassadin, I have to say that this is an absolute delight for me. I main Kassadin since season 1. I plan on watching this video over and over and over again. A pure gem. Thank you so much Aledos and Coach Curtis for this in depth guide. I am not nearly as good as Aledos but I can 1000% attest that poise is the most important part of Kassadin. My lack of poise is what causes half of my losses.
I really, really liked the way this guide was structured. I don't normally watch guides longer than 20 minutes, but you guys ask good questions and provide EXCEPTIONAL levels of detail into the thought process; the "why".
One of the best and most comprehensive guides I've ever seen. At first the video length scared me a little bit but it all went by so fast, didn't even realize it :D
After playing Kassa over and over with the same outcome - Trying to outscale enemy while most games are either lost or won without me before I can carry the game This guide helped me to get agency over game much much faster which lead to Massive improvements in my overall performance and got me back to enjoying this champion Exceptional work guys, this guide is a masterpiece
Curtis with the CRAZY high-quality content. Absolutely phenomenal. Thank you for putting so much time and effort into your guides. Azir/Lissandra next would be NUTS.
Fantastic video, Curtis. Only made it to the halfway point in my first sitting, but I'll be sure to see it through. It would be brilliant to eventually see you make a Talon guide!
Still watching this in bits and pieces whenever I have the time. Honestly, great content. Especially the mental / psychological stuff. Also, I used to think the problem was with my bronze/silver/gold teammates who would spam ff15 or much worse when things go wrong. But even otp's have to deal with this. Knowing this, that just gives me strentgh and determination tbh
Your insane Kassadin is my fav champion based on identity and emotional feel he brings to me. There is so much here i already rewatched it multiple times and will continue to do so bcs this feels kinda like learning music theory. At the start you watch that and go like WTF is a tonic and a dominate . WTF is even a chord what are harmonics, well you understand the words but not really the meaning of them. But if you come back after learning something else it kinda clicks and you get it. And if you come back again something else clicks. So thank you so much for this also Thank you Aledos for the work
Not sure if you have changed your mind and decided to come back to uploading semi-regularly on RU-vid Curtis, but good to see you back! RU-vid needs more long form content creators!
letsgoo a new guide!! im watching this even if im not going to play the champ because its so useful i love it, if u plan to make one on ori it would be amazing but ill keep watching all the guides anywayy
Coach Curtis What do you think of Cassiopeia or Aurelion Sol, and if you have the possibility of creating a guide for these champions for the channel, thank you.
Demolish could definitely be something to explore, the reason I didn't include it is I believe domination would just give a lot more value in most scenarios. If you're running electro+boneplate page I can see it being an option in specific cases.
Amazing. I have started spamming malzahar after watching hours of your content, and he got me climbing steadily towards gold. I was in dire need for a substitute champ though, because malz was my first real foray into midlane, and i had a really hard time playing any other champ on midlane. Yesterday though, I picked Kassadin 2 times, one time becaus emalz was banned and one time because i was against malz, and I noticed that I had a really easy time picking him up, my mental stack remained pretty much intact. versing my own malzahar afte rplaying him for 130 games also really helped concentrating on playing my lane as kassadin and learning some basics, because i exactly knew what to expect. Because I have no experience with kassa though, this guide is now a literal godsent and will help me add him to my pool once I get more mastery with malz. Thank you so much!
UPDATE: I have just reached Gold for the FIRST TIME since Season 9, Playing 100 Games of Malzahar and 55 Games of Kassadin this split, climbing all the way from Bronze 3 to gold using only those two. I am so happy that I finally got to learn this champ, and took the courage to pick him up with the help of this guide. Malzahar was absolutely perfect for learning so many midlane fundamentals that I was lacking, and it made me confident enough to believe that I can learn to carry with Kassadin. Now I have two very different Champions to choose from, both of which I feel very confident in being able to win. It feels like playing one of the two really enriches my ability to get creative when playing the other. It really means a lot to me, and while Coach xblademojo's Malzahar guide helped kickstart my entire midlane journey, this guide and your podcast especially are playing a huuuge part in this learning process. Again, thank you so much. Ive been playing this game for 11 years, and only now I am getting so muchnew knowledge about this game, it's really eye opening for me.
I Love the Champ Guides were you really deep dive around one champion and theire identity i like the first part with runes and items but i would like to add some critique to the later parts i don't know if u did it back with the ekko guide but i would prefer a early mid and late game section where you take different gameplays and analyse the early games in different scenarios then the same with midgame and lastly endgame I feel like the video is to much cluster at the end with a lot of value but poorly structured for me as a student but otherwise really great work and keep these champ guides comming
updated ZED guide? the last one is almost 4 years old and currently zed is in very good spot and i think a lot of people are gonna pick him up, also his playstyle changed a little so i would love to see some zed guide
Main reason is that Comet generates value in lane once people actually can consistently properly tether your R range. If you would proc electrocute with just E-Q it would always outperform comet. Now unless you're 4-500LP+ people will never be consistent enough with tethering to a point where you wouldnt be able to proc either electro or firststrike. You can generate the same value by just positioning well, trading with right ability usage on cooldowns and such. You do not need comet to win these lanes until very high up (Where I still believe you don't need comet necessarily) Second reason is when people learn kassadin you want to reduce variables. Optimally you onetrick a rune setup until at least master tier 300~LP, and comet is much more of a niche page than any of the others. For lower elos/onetricking I believe comet to be a lot less consistent, with a less clear identity. Third reason is me not having played comet enough to form a clear opinion, I mentioned it and if you're curious about its strengths and weaknesses you can go ask blitza, as I personally have NOT played comet ever, I don't want to talk about something I don't fully understand or have experienced myself.
My way of thinking is that if you buy tear on first base you lose 400 gold getting nothing early game=falling from enemy midlaner in more assasin matchup after i buy roa i get tear and get lich bane to get damage early roa gives you on 12/13 lvl 1 more if you are enough fed you can just go rabadon 1 shot everyone or complete seraphs. Saw permaban playing like that and i feel is way to go because you fall behind early if you buy tear
You can definitely make an argument for tear skip, and it can speed up your early economy by a bit and give you earlier waveclear breakpoints and all of that. It can work if you want to reach an early item spike, it's been historically a very good choice to go tear only after roa finished. Nowadays with tear being a lot cheaper than back then, while providing insane value to kassadin tear skip is much less viable anymore. The thing about "falling behind" is that most of your early trades are gated by mana/ult stacks, which tear solves amazingly, so if anything tear on first base gives you the most opportunity to actually trade (obviously in some matchups it can be different with either catalyst or kindlegem or whatever you might be building) Chinese 1000LP+ superserver onetrick goes tear first every single game on fastest server out there too
I get casually insulted in my games because my jungler is begging me to "help" him take a 2v2 in the jungle early game, while my wave is pretty badly positionned (if I move, I lose a wave). I'm plat IV btw and trying to pick up Kassadin. Any advice ? Should I just pick some different champion ? I feel like in this elo I'm getting insulted whatever I do. I know I can't go in, if I go in and die I get called a troll; and if I don't go in I get called a troll as well.
Ping and be decisive about what you want to do in advance so he doesn't take the fight to begin with if possible. Then if he still goes for the play then just don't move, mute and play your best. Whatever he thinks is irrelevant, make the correct play :)
It recovers way too little health to be justified, and you're giving up a combat rune for it. Extended skirmishes conq definitely outperforms, while quick fights either electro or FS performs better. At that point you're left with conq for dmg AND healing or fleet for healing, at which point conq outperforms. So the only justification you could give it is laning or getting to the point where you have enough damage, where it's just neither required nor good enough to take it.
I really hate the Yone match up. Before level 6 it feels like hell and even after 6 its kinda bad. Against a not dumb Yone it feels like I cant really trade. They never waste their spells and even if they engage first it feels like the only thing I can do is to dodge skills with Ult. My last matcht against Yone was like this, we still won, but in lane phase i was busted. I was 0/2 slightly behind in CS. It felt like I couldnt aproach minions when he was there. Props to Curtis and Aledos i learnt alot about my favorite Champ!
this is a great video, on a sidenote, I've actually seen this Broxah Warwick game before and was thinking wow this Kass hard carried Broxahs dumbass lol. Broxah has a video on RU-vid called "First Time Warwick" with that exact game, pretty funny lol
Hey, I really want to OTP Lux mid because I just love her playstyle and second role APC Ziggs (currently plat 2). But I am struggling with my decision and I'm kinda scared of not beeing able to hit my skillshots if i climb to higher ranks. Do you think I should stick to my decision? I would appreciate a short answer and sorry for my english, its not my mother language. Thank you in advance.
Ok I play kassadin on platinum and emerald.. its hard to imagine a guide that don't focus on RoA for me. I don't fit into the high paced game with Crown, and I don't want to go tank... I think this guide lacked on how players like me (which the majority of the kassa players) to get to either styles
Bruiser style will mostly outscale assassin, so the higher elo you go the shorter the games get (mostly master 300LP+), so assassin setup gets better in a way, and lower elos where games tend to go longer, bruiser will likely outperform. Then again it depends on server too, in china probably you need the assassin setup more since theres so much early chaos happening, while in EU/NA conq setup thrives in a much more slower/controlled environment
Baron usually allows to get inhibs later since you're both stronger for fights (with the buff +1500 gold + xp) and also baron minions allow way better siege too. Baron's just more powerful in most cases
I still get harddicked by everyone in the game playing Kassadin. It is always a zed or a yasou or a tristana or some other ad lane bully. In these matchup, is like i have to give up cs or else I am getting chunked for no reason. And I still die under tower and have my first tower done in under 10 minutes.
It gives minimal sustain in lane since it's rework, you don't get more health back than a single auto attack over an entire lanephase for the most part. You get a slight movespeed buff but it doesn't make up for you lacking a combat rune. You could make an argument for midgame sustain and allowing you to stay on the map longer, but if you want to play that style ROA does solve that (and you only get back serious health if you hit Jg camps or enemies with fleet) Then we're left with sustain in fights which technically fleet does better, but your if you're assassin setup your fights are gonna be over SUPER fast, and if you're bruiser you highly rely on conq for damage. In harder matchups too you never really need fleet, since you can opt for dshield and such, use abilities correctly, take good resets with TP. You can even take resolve and that should all be enough to survive even the worst lanes.
