PCKassadin was last nerfed in Patch 26.4 (). Across 85 patches, Kassadin has received 30 buffs, 21 nerfs, 33 adjustments since release in Patch 0.9.22.7.
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Kassadin's been having a great time now that he's able to stack multiple Tear of the Goddess items. Seriously, get on the Seraph's + Muramana train! But because this newfound power has taken him over the edge, we need to appropriately balance him. We want to preserve his high late game damage and mobile scaling fantasy, but we want to balance those strengths with appropriate weaknesses once he gets there.
Stats
- Health growth reduced to 113 from 119.
Force Pulse
- Slow reduced to 50/55/60/65/70% from 50/60/70/80/90%.
Q Damage increased. E damage increased.
Null Sphere
- AP ratio increased to 70% AP from 60% AP.
Force Pulse
- AP ratio increased to 70% AP from 65% AP.
Base Armor increased. E damage increased. R damage decreased.
Stats
- Base armor increased to 21 from 19.
Force Pulse
- Base damage increased to 70/100/130/160/190 from 60/90/120/150/180.
Riftwalk
- AP ratio per stack reduced to 7% AP from 10% AP.
- Maximum AP ratio reduced to 78% AP from 90% AP.
Null Sphere
- Bug Fix: Now correctly interrupts the following channels:
- Glacial Storm
- Royal Maelstrom
- The Culling
- Realm Warp
- Inferno Trigger
- Stand United
- Ixtal's Impact.
- This includes their Hijack version.
- Bug Fix: Now properly interrupts Hero's Entrance, instead of causing it to skip its channel's initial duration before the untargetability is granted.
- Bug Fix: No longer interrupts channels while the target is under the effects of crowd control immunity.
- Bug Fix: No longer interrupts Nether Grasp while his Void Shift is available.
- Bug Fix: When interrupting a champion's channel, no longer counts progress twice toward the "404's" (Champion channels interrupted) Eternal.
Q damage decreased. E damage decreased.
Null Sphere
- AP ratio reduced to 60% AP from 70% AP.
Force Pulse
- AP ratio reduced to 65% AP from 70% AP.
Null Sphere
- New Effect: No longer cancels from losing vision on the target.
Null Sphere
- Bug Fix: No longer interrupts Unstoppable Onslaught.
Cosmic Reaver
- Bug Fix: Parallax textures have been restored.
E damage decreased. R non stack damage decreased.
Force Pulse
- AP ratio reduced to 80% AP from 85% AP.
Riftwalk
- AP ratio reduced to 50% AP from 60% AP.
R AP ratio increased.
Riftwalk
- AP ratio increased to 60% AP from 40% AP.
- This was changed in V13.15, but is only documented in this patch.
Riftwalk
- Undocumented: AP ratio increased to 60% AP from 40% AP.
Force Pulse
- Bug Fix: SFX for when the ability is ready to cast now properly plays.
E base damage decreased, cooldown reduction from nearby casts decreased. R base damage decreased, bonus damage per stack decreased.
Null Sphere
- Removed: No longer refunds its cooldown if it loses its target during the cast time.
Force Pulse
- Cooldown reduction reduced to 0.75 seconds from 1.
- Base damage reduced to 60/90/120/150/180 from 80/105/130/155/180.
Riftwalk
- Base damage reduced to 70/90/110 from 80/100/120.
- Base damage per stack reduced to 35/45/55 from 40/50/60.
- Maximum base damage reduced to 210/270/330 from 240/300/360.
Force Pulse
- Cooldown increased to 21/20/19/18/17 seconds from 21/19/17/15/13.
Force Pulse
- Bug Fix: HUD now properly plays the animation for the cooldown being reduced on Force Pulse and not Nether Blade.
- Bug Fix: Now properly plays the SFX indicating that its ready to cast.
Q base shield increased, shield AP scaling decreased. E adjusted.
Null Sphere
- New Effect: Shield is now granted on cast instead of as soon as the missile is fired.
- Base shield increased to 80/110/140/170/200 from 60/90/120/150/180.
- Shield AP ratio reduced to 30% AP from 40% AP.
Force Pulse
- Removed: No longer requires 6 ability casts to cast.
- New Effect: Ability casts within 1800 units now reduce its cooldown by 1 second.
- Cooldown increased to 21/19/17/15/13 seconds from 5 at all ranks.
Q cooldown decreased, mana cost decreased.
Null Sphere
- Cooldown reduced to 10/9.5/9/8.5/8 seconds from 11/10.5/10/9.5/9.
- Mana cost reduced to 60/65/70/75/80 from 70/75/80/85/90.
Nether Blade
- Bug Fix: On-hit VFX is now displayed correctly.
Stats
- Base health increased to 646 from 576.
- Health growth increased to 119 from 105.
- Armor growth increased to 4 from 2.8.
- Magic resistance growth increased to 1.3 from 0.5.
Q shield AP ratio increased. E AP ratio increased.
Null Sphere
- Base shield increased to 60/90/120/150/180 from 40/70/100/130/160.
- Shield AP ratio increased to 40% AP from 30% AP.
Force Pulse
- AP ratio increased to 85% AP from 80% AP.
Force Pulse
- Bug Fix: Fixed a bug where he would sometimes be unable to cast it.
Void Stone
- Bug Fix: Now properly ignores unit collision even after dying.
Nether Blade
- Bug Fix: Can no longer trigger Electrocute with just two hits.
- Undocumented/Bug Fix: Now always applies Muramana ability damage on cast.
Nether Blade
- Undocumented/Bug Fix: Passive effect's damage no longer unintentionally classified as spell damage.
Nether Blade
- Bug Fix: Empowered attack now properly grants Mana Charge stacks (Tear of the Goddess).
Nether Blade
- Undocumented / Removed: Empowered attack no longer grants Mana Charge stacks (Tear of the Goddess).
Stats
- Base attack damage increased to 59 from 58.852.
Stats
- Mana growth increased to 87 from 67.
Q shield decreased early.
Null Sphere
- Base shield strength reduced to 40/70/100/130/160 from 60/85/110/135/160.
Movement speed decreased. R mana penalty duration now displays on icon.
Stats
- Base movement speed reduced to 335 from 340.
Riftwalk
- New Effect: Mana debuff duration now displays on the icon's .
Q cooldown now scales. W mana restore decreased later.
Null Sphere
- Cooldown increased to 11/10.5/10/9.5/9 seconds from 9 at all ranks.
Nether Blade
- Mana restored reduced to 4/4.5/5/5.5/6% missing mana from 4/5/6/7/8%.
- Mana restored against champions reduced to 20/22.5/25/27.5/30% missing mana from 20/25/30/35/40%.
Nether Blade
- Increased bonus magic damage increased to 70/95/120/145/170 from 40/65/90/115/140.
Armor decreased.
Stats
- Base armor reduced to 19 from 23.376.
- Armor growth reduced to 2.8 from 3.2.
Nether Blade
- New Effect: Ability icon now shows the remaining time for the empowered attack.
Riftwalk
- New Effect: Can now ping the time until stacks expire if Kassadin is unable to cast Riftwalk due to having too many stacks.
Stats
- Base health regeneration reduced to 6 from 8.
Riftwalk
- Cooldown reduced to 5/3.5/2 seconds from 6/4/2.
Nether Blade
- Bug Fix: On-hit SFX have been restored.
Nether Blade
- New Effect: Now has a mana cost of 1.
- Active AP ratio increased to 80% AP from 70% AP.
Force Pulse
- AP ratio increased to 80% AP from 70% AP.
Riftwalk
- AP ratio increased to 40% AP from 30% AP.
Null Sphere
- Base shield strength increased to 60/85/110/135/160 from 40/70/100/130/160.
Cosmic Reaver
- Nether Blade
- Bug Fix: Unique particles have been restored for his auto attack on-hits and Nether Blade.
Stats
- Base health regeneration increased to 8 from 7.79.
Null Sphere
- New Effect: Now draws nearby minion aggro when targeting an enemy champion.
Force Pulse
- New Effect: Now determines what it hits at the end of its cast time, rather than the start.
- Range increased to 600 from 585.
Cosmic Reaver
- Bug Fix: Fixed a bug where his particles would flicker when zooming in and out.
Nether Blade
- Bug Fix: Attack is no longer cancelled if the target moved out of range.
Force Pulse
- Cooldown reduced to 5 seconds from 6.
Riftwalk
- AP ratio increased to 30% AP from 20% AP.
Null Sphere
- Base damage changed to 65/95/125/155/185 from 70/95/120/145/170.
Nether Blade
- Bug Fix: Fixed a bug where Nether Blade's passive magic damage wasn't applying to turrets after activation.
Force Pulse
- Mana cost reduced to 60/65/70/75/80 from 80 at all ranks.
Force Pulse
- Removed: Passive's stack acquisition from Frost Queen's Claim Active.
General
- Cooldown reduced to 7 seconds from 9 seconds.
- AP ratio increased to 70% AP from 60% AP.
Riftwalk
- New Effect: Now scales with (+ 20% AP).
- New Effect: Damage increase per Riftwalk stack now scales with (+ 10% AP) per stack.
Riftwalk
- Empowerment stack duration reduced to 15 seconds from 20.
General
- Model upgrade to all skins.
- Some new animations.
- New ability icons.
Riftwalk
- Range increased to 500 from 450.
- Mana cost reduced to 50/100/200/400/800 from 60/120/240/480/960.
- Cooldown reduced to 6/4/2 seconds from 7/5/3.
Riftwalk
- Range reduced to 450 from 700.
- Mana cost reduced to 60/120/240/480/960 from 75/150/300/600/1200.
Null Sphere
- Base damage reduced to 70/95/120/145/170 from 80/105/130/155/180.
Riftwalk
- Empowerment and mana cost stack duration increased to 20 seconds from 12.
Nether Blade
- Cooldown increased to 9 seconds from 6.
Force Pulse
- Slow duration reduced to 1 second from 3.
- Slow strength increased to 50/60/70/80/90% from 30/35/40/45/50%.
General
- Movement speed reduced to 340 from 350.
- Active damage reduced to 40 / 65 / 90 / 115 / 140 (+60% AP) from 40 / 75 / 110 / 145 / 180 (+70% AP).
Null Sphere
- Shield strength reduced to 40 / 70 / 100 / 130 / 160 (+30% AP) from 40 / 80 / 120 / 160 / 200 (+80% AP).
Riftwalk
- Crystal Scar only: Cooldown reduced to 9 / 7 / 5 seconds from 9 / 8 / 7.
Stats
- Movement speed increased to 350 from 340.
- Mana per level increased to 70 from 45.
Null Sphere
- Magic damage shield increased to 40/80/120/160/200 (+0.8 ability power) from 40/70/100/130/160 (+0.3 ability power).
- Bugfix: Now correctly interrupts Glacial Storm, Gate and Hyper-Kinetic Position Reverser
Nether Blade
- Active damage increased to 40/75/110/145/180 (+0.7 ability power) from 40/65/90/115/140 (+0.6 ability power).
General
- New particle effects.
Stats
- Attack range increased to 150 from 125.
Void Stone
- No longer converts the reduced damage into attack speed.
- Now also allows Kassadin to perpetually ignore unit collision.
Null Sphere
- No longer silences, but will still interrupt channels and charges.
- Damage changed to 80 / 105 / 130 / 155 / 180 from 80 / 110 / 140 / 170 / 200.
- Now also grants Kassadin a shield from the next 40 / 70 / 100 / 130 / 160 (+ 30% AP) magic damage for 1.5 seconds.
Nether Blade
- Revised Passive: Kassadin's basic attacks deal 20 (+ 10% AP) bonus magic damage on-hit.
- Revised Active: Kassadin next basic attack deals 40 / 65 / 90 / 115 / 140 (+60% AP) bonus magic damage and restores 4 / 5 / 6 / 7 / 8% of his missing mana, increasing to 20 / 25 / 30 / 35 / 40% of his missing mana if the attack is against a champion. The passive and active damage stack.
- Mana cost reduced to 0 from 25.
- Cooldown reduced to 6 seconds from 12.
Force Pulse
- Damage reduced to 80 / 105 / 130 / 155 / 180 from 80 / 120 / 160 / 200 / 240.
Riftwalk
- Damage changed to 80 / 100 / 120 (+ 2 % maximum mana) from 80 / 100 / 120 (+80% AP).
- Maximum empowerment stacks reduced to 4 from 10.
- Empowerment stack bonus damage changed to 40 / 50 / 60 (+1 % mana) from 50 / 55 / 60 (+10% AP).
- Empowerment stacks now increase the costs double the mana, changed from 100 mana.
- Effective mana cost: 75 / 150 / 300 / 600 / 1200
- Empowerment stack duration increased to 12 seconds from 8.
- Base cost reduced to 75 from 100.
- Cooldown reduced to 7 / 5 / 3 seconds from 7 / 6 / 5.
- No longer refunds 50% of the mana cost if the ability strikes a champion.
Null Sphere
- Base damage reduced to 80 / 110 / 140 / 170 / 200 from 80 / 115 / 150 / 185 / 220.
- Silence duration reduced to 1 / 1.25 / 1.5 / 1.75 / 2 seconds from 1.5 / 1.75 / 2 / 2.25 / 2.5.
Force Pulse
- Base damage reduced to 80 / 120 / 160 / 200 / 240 from 80 / 130 / 180 / 230 / 280.
Stats
- Base magic resist reduced to 30 from 31.25.
- Magic resist per level reduced to 0 from 1.25.
Null Sphere
- Damage reduced to 80/115/150/185/220 from 80/130/180/230/280.
- Silence duration changed to 1.5/1.75/2/2.25/2.5 seconds from 1/1.4/1.8/2.2/2.6.
- Mana cost reduced to 70/75/80/85/90 from 70/80/90/100/110.
Riftwalk
- Base damage increased to 80/100/120 from 60/70/80.
- Damage from subsequent casts changed to 50/55/60 (+10% AP) from 60/70/80.
- Now refunds 50% of the total mana cost when Riftwalk damages an enemy champion(s).
We've made Nether Blade consistent against all structures. As an already effective mobile assassin, Kassadin does not need unnecessary pushing power.
Nether Blade
- Fixed a bug where Kassadin's basic attacks with Nether Blade active triggered Muramana's active damage more than once.
- Nether Blade's active no longer deals damage to inhibitors or the nexus.
Force Pulse
- Fixed an issue where Force Pulse would sometimes fire backward after using Rift Walk.
Nether Blade
- Ability power ratio increased to 0.3 from 0.15.
- Bonus damage no longer hits inhibitors or the Nexus.
Riftwalk
- Damage reduced to 60/70/80 from 60/90/120.
- Ability power ratio increased to 80% AP from 50% AP.
Riftwalk
- Cooldown increased to 7/6/5 from 6/5/4.
Force Pulse
- Fixed a bug which caused it to cast backwards after performing Riftwalk.
Null Sphere
- Cast range reduced to 650 from 700.
Force Pulse
- Damage increased to 80/130/180/230/280 from 60/115/170/225/280.
Void Stone
- Magic damage reduction increased to 15% from 10%.
Null Sphere
- Missile speed increased to 1400 from 1150.
Nether Blade
- Base magic damage on-hit increased to 30/45/60/75/90 from 20/30/40/50/60.
Nether Blade
- Passive base mana restore per attack increased to 8/11/14/17/20 from 4/8/12/16/20.
- Active changed to dealing 20/30/40/50/60 (+0.15 ability power) bonus magic damage dealt on hit for the duration instead of receiving 7/15/25/38/50 armor penetration for the duration.
General
- Original splash art has been updated.
Force Pulse
- Fixed a bug where the visual occasionally wouldn't align with the direction cast.
Force Pulse
- Damage reduced to 60/115/170/225/280 from 60/120/180/240/300.
- Ability power ratio reduced to 0.7 from 0.8.
- Cooldown increased to 6 from 5.
Riftwalk
- Ability power ratio increased to 0.5 from 0.4.
Void Stone
- Damage reduction reduced to 10% from 15%.
Nether Blade
- Cooldown reduced to 12 from 15.
Nether Blade
- Mana cost reduced to 25 at all ranks from 30/40/50/60/70.
Riftwalk
- It no longer shows cast particles over fog of war.
- It now leaves a buff showing the duration of the increased cost and damage of subsequent casts.
Nether Blade
- Level up tooltip now correctly states the increased mana cost.
Riftwalk
- No longer be cast while root.
Stats
- Attack range increased to 125 from 120.
- Magic resistance gained per level increased to 1.25 from 0.
Nether Blade Remade:
- Passive: Now restores a flat 4 mana with every hit and triple this amount when the hit is against champions instead of removing 2% of his opponent max mana and restoring twice that amount to his own mana.
- Active: Upon activating the ability Kassadin gains 7 armor penetration for 5 seconds.
- 15 second cooldown.
- 30 mana cost.
- Activating this ability counts as a spell cast for the purposes of Force Pulse.
Null Sphere
- Projectile speed increased to 1150 from 900.
Void Stone
- The attack speed effect now stacks and renews instead of being replaced on spell impact.
- Duration lowered to 4 seconds from 5 seconds.
Void Stone
- Now applies an additive attack speed boost, rather than multiplicative.
Force Pulse
- Ability power ratio reduced to 0.8 from 1.
Force Pulse
- Charges required increased to 6 from 4.
Riftwalk
- Mana cost reduced to 100 from 110.
Sounds
- Reduced volume of Null Sphere and added volume/pitch randomization.
- Decreased the volume and radius of Force Pulse "Can Cast" sound.
- Increased the volume and added volume/pitch randomization to Riftwalk.
Stats
- Armor per level reduced to 3.2 from 3.5.
Null Sphere
- Ability power ratio reduced to 0.7 from 0.8.
Force Pulse
- Now gains charges whenever any nearby champion casts a spell.
Riftwalk
- Mana cost increased to 110 from 75.
- Cooldown increased to 6/5/4 seconds from 6/4.5/3.
- Doubling time increased to 8 seconds from 7.
Kassadin added to League of Legends
General
- Kassadin is an agile fighter with a focus of fighting casters and chasing down fleeing foes.
Void Stone (Innate)
- Kassadin takes 15% reduced damage from abilities and transforms this damage into bonus attack speed.
Null Sphere (Q)
- Kassadin fires a void bolt dealing Magic Damage and silencing his target.
Nether Blade (W)
- Kassadin's physical attacks steal a percent of his target's mana, and he gains twice the mana drained from these attacks.
Force Pulse (E)
- Kassadin draws energy each spell he casts. Upon reaching 4 charges Kassadin can use Force Pulse to deal Magic Damage and slow enemies in front of him for 3 seconds.
Riftwalk (Ultimate)
- Kassadin teleports to a nearby location dealing damage to nearby enemy units. Additionally, multiple Riftwalks In a short period of time cause them to cost additional mana and deal additional damage.
