The Story of League's Most Broken Champion

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In League of Legends, Kassadin is known as one of the most overpowered champions of all time. This video covers the story of Kassadin in League of Legends, and his lasting legacy.

00:00 – The Champ
1:50 – Sponsored
3:00 - The Legacy
10:34 - xPeke Effect
15:23 - The Rise of Kassadin
17:15 - Worlds 2013
26:30 - The Year of Kassadin
30:30 - The "Nerfed" Rework
33:06 - All-Star 2014 and SKT
40:10 - Worlds 2014
42:00 - Kassadin rises.. again.
45:20 - The Ultimate Nerf

[Croc]

Royal club going into the finals being like "Idk how we win vs SKT." Is probably how teams still feel today, 11 years later.

[edophoenix]

I remember back in Season 3 in a game where I was playing support when Kassadin didn't get banned. My mid picked Pantheon and absolutely dumpstered the Kassadin. The Panth then went around making sure everyone else got kills saying: 'I'm not Rambo, my team needs to be strong too.'
I still remember your words to this day, random Panth guy.

[noThankyou-gc]

there was this kind of ironic result of him being so strong which was that nobody rlly knew how to play kassadin at all. so when he was open in a game lots of people who had NO business playing him would immediately lock him in and proceed to run it down. especially if the team facing him could play pantheon mid (im sure he had other counters i forget)
that being said, the fact he had a 52% winrate by a player pool that was essentially first timing him every game they got to try him goes to show how strong he rlly was.

[Zhorrua]

I never saw Kassadin in a ranked game, but I saw him in a 2014 Urf Game...

[dagandangerous]

i love how Xpeke has become synonymous to Kassadin. Its like he is part of the Kassadin Lore.

[Zsinj]

as a frequent mid from the old days, Kassawin was always a special treat to get a chance to play, and absolutely horrific to play against lol

[carlosdumbratzen]

Man what a trip down memory lane. This is when I began playing league and to ban kassadin was one of the first lessons i learned while I wathed over the shoulder of a friend. Also this vayne icon was soooo cool. I still cry over losing that old splashart

[umbrellamuffin]

I remember thinking it was "cool" that there was such an overpowered character. When my friends introduced me to the game back in S3 they would tell me horror stories about kassadin and why you should always ban him. When I looked into it and read his lore I thought "he's the main character of the game, of course he has to be strong!"

[Elrandar]

48:38 That's my reddit post!
I was so obsessed with that champ and that story back in the days that I jumped on the occasion when i saw his new atrocious winrate
Thanks for your video and the memories, very well researched

[xXxRoflxXxKnifexXx]

Is this jungle? No this is Kassidan. Hi is this support. No this is Kassidan. Hello is this top. No this is KASSIDAN!

[TheNeonLynx]

The big reason Kassadin's winrate was so low back then was because of his high banrate. People just did not get to practice him enough to actually get good on the champ.

[milcos.i]

Thank you for this piece of work. As a new player, this is like diving in some ancient eras of LOL. The longevity of the game is incredible and we can have actual history class about some events in the game (like the story of Kassadin). And the old maps, pheww definitely another time !!!

[president]

Bro the xpeke backdoor was so iconic at the time ! its sad that new players dont know this

[RRWolke]

I actually had back-to-back Kassadin games back then once, I think it was either in high Gold or low Plat, one playing as him and another against him (laning against him even). I played quite a bit of Kassadin before the permaban status so I kind of knew about his minimal weaknesses so I won both sides of the Ahri vs Kass matchup (even bringing up AD runes for Ahri as to bully him out of lane and try to snowball). It worked but it wasn't a surefire way to deal with him.

I love the champion even to this day, but he was absolutely absurd back in the day. His damage was just so much higher and there was no counterplay to his main play pattern that he could 1v5 if the game got late and his only problem was his bad laning phase that wasn't easy to exploit with the lower skill level of players back then.

[GamReCatLP]

I played 400 games in s3, 1000 games in s4, and 800 games in s5. I think I only saw Kassadin once or twice.

[vannydevito]

I remember playing blindpick, because I was a Kass main and there was no way to play him in a game mode that allowed bans.... Good times 😂

[TheAutumnNght]

Idk if you’ll read this myth but I think your content is actually really really good I love the effort you put into your content and I hope you keep this up, I’ve rewatched your essay format videos a bunch of times and will be turning notifications on!

[soulsemblance]

When kassadin was 97% ban rate I remember i got to play him 1 time. I was vs a talon who was smurfing all over our asses.

[byubyubyubyu]

basically binge watched all your videos in the span of a few days and i dont even play league anymore but your videos are such a nice trip down memory lane, keep up the great vids man!

[booperdee]

its fun to see that there exists extremely broken things that no one is doing like kassadin in season 1 and 2. Even things that are commonplace now were unheard of 5 years ago.