Kassadin could be so much more than just bootleg Darth Vader || Casual Champion Review (2024)

He's not bootleg Darth Vader, he is that one purple villain toy from Toy Story 2.
Edit: I searched up his name and it's Emperor Zurg.

Gotta love lore inconsistencies. First with Lewis and how gangs worked in Bilgewater, now Kai’sa can apparently live on the void with no repercussions because her bodysuit is made of dead bug skin, while Kassadin is barely human after hunting down the best anti-void armaments throughout runeterra

Kinda strange that Kassadin have his skin blue as he does everything to resist The Void, but Malzahar who accepted whole heatedly still with a normal color skin.

as the person who was supposedly the "one" fanart. I dread the day mine is the only one there.

I think design-wise the main issue to me is actually looking too close to the void. The void is not actually magically corrupting him, that's all the doing of his many artifacts, especially the nether blade. The only kind of "corruption" void is doing to him is just a mental psychological trauma making him lose his sanity. Where Kai'sa has this 'fighting fire with fire' theme and adapts to the void's enviroment to fight against it, Kassadin is the opposite. He has scrounged random artifacts across all of Runeterra that can help fight the void, he should look like an invader that does not fit that environment at all, like an insult to the Watchers and Malzahar.
His design could be better, but I like the idea of it looking a bit goofy considering it's random pieces of gear from all over Runeterra. He's like the type of RPG player who wears ugly random gear just based on what has the best stats.

Person who did the eggman fandub kassadin drawing you have an enormous brain i love you

People are like: Oh. Kassadin is just a bootleg Vader/Zurg/Cthtulhu lookin guy.
His lore: Literal DoomSlayer, but for some reason rito made him mad and corrupted.
Nah. They should redesign him to fullfill the fantasy of absolute badass fighting of the Void by himself. He should meet Jax.

"I love that Riot Games punishes me for not buying a smurf account". Exactly my feeling when my friends complain I play too much Lillia, but whenever I try to play anything else it feels like it's more try-hard than ranked games. Thankyou for making me feel like I'm not alone in having this issue.

Imma be honest, wild rift did an amazing job in redesigning Kassadin just enough just so he makes sense in runeterra. Now he has actual armor and no blue skin, his gauntlet is the missing pair that ezreal has, his mask looks more badass and he has ACTUAL LEGS THANK GOODNESS.
I freakin love his story man, and i'm sad riot has not done anything with him other than a brief mention in bel veth's story 2 years ago. A father who has done everything in his power to walk thru the void and slaughter every single purple bug he finds ala doom guy just to find his lost daughter. Guy's badass! Just port his WR design to pc and give him ACTUAL voicelines please :'(

Feeling like Riot has some potential with Kass, like some people say around here he could be the Doom Slayer of Runeterra, but until they finish their other projects like Shyvanna, Teemo and probably Trynda or Nocturne they are gonna take a look at our void papa

Wait does that mean Nicky is playing Kat next week!? Oh hes gonna have a miserable time first timing her.

Amazing video! I definelty already watched the whole thing!

Fanart gang be lying low hard or is massively late. I watch these not only for bicky but for you guys as well, don't let our boy down

Kassadin's gameplay perfectly fits his lore, he dives into the enemy team like no tomorrow (just like how he dived into void) and then just... wins

To me he has a Zealot (StarCraft) phase blade for a weapon. He does need a lore rewrite, but sadly that isn't exactly on Rito's radar

Will there be a separate video for Rhaast, or will all of Kayn’s forms be covered in one video?
love these videos btw 👍

i love this type of videos

'how many particles do i need'
Count Kassadin: hold my bats

I think it could be a fun twist if maybe he has so much anti-void artifacts fused to his body that he literally needs to absorb void energy to survive at this point, so if he stops fighting it he just dies.

In wild rift his gameplay is some changes. Such as
Passive works like shen hits stuff get purple shield
Q is a skillshot but the silence is increased by 0.5 or smth
W-increased auto range
E-still stackable but can be used at 1 stack

notably kaisa does know her father is in the void and losing his mind, so she might go look for him

Fingerd crossed to have Wild Rift designs in League one day.
Copium goes hard.

7:10 that gauntlet looks so shuriman tho! i never noticed even as a wr player (to be fair, i despise kassadin ingame both as playing as him as playing against him) but thats a cool detail

I still want to see if next week will happen what happened to Ahri, where he thought he would hate it and ended up liking it.

Anti-mage characters in general tend to be pretty vanilla, although I still miss his mana steal to this day, I miss the salt

“Kassadin more like ASSadin.”

I always thought he was wearing a blue undersuit like Sven from Dota 2

Nicky are you ever planning on making Monster Hunter videos? You've been showing a lot that you like the games and even using music in some of your vids

Give me an Arcane season about Kassadin's and Jax's journeys.

Ive literally made an alt and hand leveled it for norms because im tired of getting master players on my almost level 400 account in norms

Ah kass. Not to mistake with the other cass, you know the scalie one

Ah yes the funny father that’s never interacted with his daughter for whatever reason I guess it fits you got French vanilla father and vanilla bean daughter

He's much more of a Doom Slayer with a tinge of Punisher in my eyes. Vader he's only really in visuals and being a dad. I think this is easily the most underrated champion lore in the entire roster. His plot is relatively simple but written so well. I think he surpasses Pantheon in pure testosterone-inducing badassery, it's only that Pantheon has his music theme. If he got a good DOOM-inspired music theme people would love him more. The nether blade is easily the coolest weapon in the entire lore, especially if you go digging deep enough to find rioter's statements about how f*cked up it is. He is such a perfect doomed hero character and I hope more people realise eventually how good his lore *already* is. His color story is really damn good and again very underrated.

Whats up with the cosmic skin? Is it just a Jax situation where racists flock to it for no real reason or is there something with the skin itself?

In wild rift thay get rid of point and click q but give him i real silence and his w give him range attack and his e don't need to stack but if you stack it the e will deal more damage

"reduced to Ashe and Rumble"

8:51
Ezreal and his e: “WHHYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY!!!”

I usually (almost always) comment after watching a video. But less than a minute in, THIS. SO MUCH THIS. I hate it when I go against master/grandmaster in normals. Mercy Riot, I am a handless plat player. I will edit this when I finish the video, but I feel seen lol

They don't port the models in 'cause they're made with entirely different engines

when i first tried lol i gravitated to him coz i thought he's like Dart Terror/Faceless Void from Dota 😂
boy oh boy was i wrong

Honestly i am suprised that akshan didn't dive you under tower, he must have feard your powers and skills at kASSadin

My man is Conan doom slayer that could have so many lore implications
But they’ve done nothing

I think almost all the "K" champions will be painfull for Nick to play...

God damn. There are a lot of K champions.

I like Count Kassadin

kassadin being shirtless makes no sense, but to me it reads more as communicating a power fantasy (which, the power fantasy of showing off muscles clashes with his core themes anyway) rather than being sex appeal

i like scaling champs, but i agree with you, kassadin just gets it for free. whenever i go against him it feels hopeless. my laning phase doesn't matter at all, if the game goes on long enough he IS powerful. i get that technically that's true for every champion, but kassadin gets this despite having 0 kills as long as he has been farming decently

I knew form the moment the notification popped up that this episode was going to be misery for you Nicky. We tend to have very similar taste in everything that involves league and I literally couldn't care less about Kassadin.
He looks so lame and goofy, his gameplay is SO boring and stupid. The only reedeming thing about him is his lore, which is so underdeveloped and non existant and has been that way for so many years that he's in the same boat with champs like corki, shaco, and twitch waiting to stop being olimpically ignored and something, even the smallests of efforts be done for them as a part of the League of Legends IP.

So his wife died but he didn't make a mockery of the setting and ruin its lore forever ?
I respect Kassadin now. Viego should never have been added to the game.

Vader, sure, has a lot of ressemblance.
But Zurg, though

Kassadin feels broken late game

Kassadin wanted to be Anti-Mage from Dota 2 but he can't farm

Am I the only one that relate Kassadin with Zurg instead of Vader ?

Kassadin is by no means weak, he's just boring even when he works.

Is Kaisa Australian?

yamato unleash the forbidden champion 😈😈😈

How is he bootleg darthvader he doesnt look or act like him? Is it just his voice?

can't wait for nicky to finally reach Shaco
and him struggling to say a single sentence about him because riot just doesn't care about the funny marionette

Kassadin blue skin = Ryze blue skin

Purple guy would penna here

Kassadin sounds funny in my language, portuguese, wich makes him more of a goofball edgelord
Ca-sa-jin

I'm surprised Nicky didn't become racist while recording

Vader

0 dislikes in 15 minutes, NickyBunge fell down :(

What a god awful match up. Better luck next time Nickyboi.

Old champ, unupdated lore, old model, average style, horrible matching, horrible matchups... What else is there??

"Kassadin doesnt earn his late game power like Smolder or Nasus" yeah its so HARD and DIFFICULT to spam abilities with smolder and farm minions with nasus WOW FOR SURE THEY WIN THEIR LATE GAME! please what a weak "argument" Kassadin is literally useless till level 6 and even then he doesnt have that much damage compared to "champs that earn their late game" like Smolder or Nasus ¬¬

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Yimit champ