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.
Perhaps I got lucky, but I never met a cocky and rude Pantheon main... Unlike Yasuo, and Yone mains for example.... To be fair, I didn't play league before the Panth rework.
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.
I played Talon into him at the time, physical damage and silenced him by jumping on him. If I could get a small lead early, it would snowball out of control.
I was a Kassadin main before this time, and during this time. Man, those were the days. I could get him like 30% of the time if I told my team not to ban him. Talon was not the hardest counter for sure. It was Pantheon.
@shleyLX That's not really true, it's not symmetrical. A player who wants to play against Kassadin will play against every Kassadin player, but a player who wants to play Kassadin would still have to play other champs like 70% of the time because the enemy team would ban him.
He had attack speed, mana drain and armor penetration because he was League of Legends' version of Anti Mage. That's why he also had and still has magic damage reduction and a blink
Kassadin existed when the champions roster was pretty low, he had no counters, today league is different even if he still had the same buffs he would be shutdown way early by any mid bully before he scale out of control
@youneskasdi i agree. thats why they should bring him back to how he was before. i dont even care about the silence atp, just give me my ult range back please
@youneskasdi He still has no counters (except, maybe, Talon). Countering him is entirely reliant on the rest of the team being able to shut him down (i.e. if your team troll picks with shit like Karma support, Vlad top, etc. you've automatically lost the game), because his lane counters only exist until he reaches level 6 and half an item. Right now you go, say, Zed, he picks Doran's shield and Bone plating and you'll maybe end up kill him once pre-6 and after that he can just force trades whenever your W/R are down and either force you out of lane or outright kill you.
As an old day Swain player, Kass was one of the worst nightmares for me. I also played Kass well until they killed that champion altogether. Since then I haven’t touched it much and now it might even struggles to win a bot match. The nerf was so devastating.
I have nightmares of s3 kassawin teleporting on top of me and deleting me as a support main 😭 Or if I was unlucky to be playing LB and against a kassawin who had more jumps and could definitely out run me.
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.
Yep and the random times kassadin would get through it caused people to practically first time him, and tbh sometimes it’d even work lol even if overall the WR was lower then it could have been
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!"
Invisibility was insanely busted back then 😂😂. Made me start running the red trinket it certain games if the enemy jung was reng or Kha’zix cuz I can’t trust my support 😂
I started playing league in s3 when ziggs came out and somehow got to play 150 ranked games during his infamous permaban period. Got me to gold 1 on my first season of playing lol
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
Dude thresh was beloved by Korean supports and at the time in 2013 his utility was the highest in the hands of a good player. This is before many kits became power creeped. Thresh had almost everything
Thresh back then was what K'Sante and other new champs with overloaded kits are today, he brought a lot of utility to the table and was flashy as hell in good hands
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
I remember playing on bronze 3 or 4 on season 2 league and got to pick Kassadin once after he was banned for months. I went 0-9 that game. Good old times
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.
I remember that win at 14:40. We were all on the edge of our seats, one of the best moments in League ever. Being unbalanced in that way is how League got big imo.
imo Old Kassadin was indeed that strong, and to me it was always about the mobility. Back when he first arrived with that monstrous blinking range he was the epitome of mobility, and the presence of old DFG made it entirely possible for him to be standing outside of vision and then hop in and combo someone to death instantly, then often blink back out again with little chance of dying. Honestly he felt like the part of a single player game where they give you wildly upgraded powers to let you have a god-mode fantasy moment in a flashback or from a special temporary power up, but he was just always there, waiting to appear on top of you and vaporize you, providing the most depressing jump scare in gaming
Back in season 3 and 4 when I started playing league I had a extremly toxic friend who only played Kassadin and Diana. He was complaining why I try to main twisted fate, he said tf is the worst mage in game so we had a duel. Played 1vs1 custom tf vs kassa. I wrecked him because I built ad tf with very high mr. He couldn't figure out how he deals so low dmg. I killed him like 10 times and won a game. I mean we were silver rank back then but because of that friend I learned not to be afraid of kassa. He was extremly op but not unbeatable in casual games.
I'm glad this video exists to document Season 3 Kassadin too because I started in May 2013 and VIVIDLY remember Kassadin's ban rate and his legendary tales in those early days of my ranked experience, yet lately I only hear people talking about "Season 4 Kassadin" as if he was not notable at all in Season 3. His story is longer than most people think.
On release Xin, on release Jax, and Kassawin. I miss seasons 1-5 3 and 4 were peak league, and then feral flare and the elder jungle items with jungle ezreal... sigh
The best game of league I have ever played was on prenerf kass. I rarely got to play him in ranked. But one time he didn’t get banned and I went 33-9. Absolutely hilarious. He definitely needed the nerf.
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.
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!
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!
Interesting to note: After Patch 5.4 (February 25th 2015) Kassadin was buffed in every single patch he was part in (disregarding bugfixes) up until Patch 8.24b (December 18th 2018) where his base health regeneration was reduced to 6 from 8.
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 !!!
It used to be one of the best games ever back then. Items weren’t “unique” so you can infinite stack an item. Rabadons was crazy. Or for funsies go 6 rods for the heck of it on Leblanc. Or the old Yi had AP in his Q and W, and his healing wasn’t so bad, it just instant healed when you had ap,I think it scaled like 120%AP or something, and his Q was like 100% or 120% as well. Meta also didn’t exist lol. Used to go Ashe mid, or anyone mid, sometimes doubling in mid lane cause why not lol. No support at times. 2 top other games, some with no jungler cause at the time it was fucking hard to learn. Cloth and pots was where it was at if you aren’t Warwick. Then you had the Christmas and Halloween maps that they deleted cause of garbage Esports. It was genuinely one of the greatest games of all time. Now it’s kinda eh, everything is balanced around their Esports so you gotta pray pro players don’t use your favorite champ. If they do, then riot gonna nerf them to oblivion so pros don’t use him anymore and nobody else can til the new season. Renekton, and pantheon always playing hot potato with this lol. Such good times though.
I saw xPeke backdoor live inside Spodek Katowice 2013 IEM, it was crazy the crowd went wild! Overall the whole LoL torunament thing was amazing for a 13 year old to witness live!
One big aspect of Kass's ban was also how bans worked. It wasn't just a lower number, it was a single person doing all the banning. This means that bans were much more team focused as opposed to individual lane focused.
Man I never saw him in the game, and I've been playing since 2015. Just forgot about him completly, all I remember is that guy pulling the absolute craziest win. I'm old so i forgot his name, but his nick was synonymous with asspulling victory in a lost game
I remember playing lucian into kassadin, being 10-0 vs 0-9 with 90 cs vs 25 at 10 minutes and him finishing the game 22-10 with 2 pentas and a quadra. He's been perma banned by me for 6k+ games ever since.
I miss the old Kassadin, to this day Im still an otp but this was so fun back then... The only time i ''stopped'' playing Kassadin was when i swapped him for Syndra , back when she was also an insane monster close to Kassadin's nightmare.
I remember this period. I had just started playing league and was confused why he was default banned every game. That is until I played against one. He was one 1v5ing and steam rolled us with zero difficulty
I still remember the one time Kassadin got through bans and was first picked. I was the unlucky mid playing against him. He completely dumpstered our game, then said 'thanks for not bannin kassa' in post game lobby. That was the last time I let Kassa go through.
i remember when i start to play league it's was maybe season 3 or 4 and my friends always dodge the game every time someone pick kassadin in the enemy team , and one time they let slide and we lose the game and kassadin got more than 30+ kills it was super stupid op at that time
there was no justice playing against kassadin back in the day. I had to experience in my naiveté why kassadin must be banned since none of my team members nor I had understood the power of kassadin, but we did after he singlehandedly dismantled our team in 15 minutes with a score of 32/1.
I remember playing Kassadin with Yi build and attack dmg.. only picking his most needed item RoA then the rest whatever i want.. I was the most crazy Kassadin main XD
Nobody ever really seemed to care about 3s, but let's not forget his Ult was quite uniquely also able to jump the base wall on Twisted Treeline. RIP that map.
I remember in season 1 when i used to play Kassadin a lot...or well tankadin hehe. With the old runes, full magic pen, armor and AP/lvl, then build sorc shoes, arch staff, warmogs, rabadon, thornmail and force of nature, he was a very tanky high damage unstoppable machine...at least with the skill levels and knowledge of the players back then. It was an idea i got from a YT video from NinjAChurch
There was a time where amumu and shen were also must pick/ban champs in solo q. Not to the extremeness as kass was but still noteworthy in leagues history
It was so broken that's true but every single time I watch a video like this for old League of Legends champions I get so nostalgic for some reason. Yeah the game was far from perfect but I still miss it. Thank you for this great video by the way, you did an amazing job!
Myth! Just finished watching all of your videos, thank you for all of the time you put in. I really enjoyed every single one and will be excited for any videos you make in the future. Have a great 2025!
Ahhh yes, I remember when me and my bud could solo Baron at level 1 with Jax dodge chance. This truly used to be an incredibly fun game. We'd write build paths on index cards for different champions 😂
im watching all your videos its been years and years since i've played league or even cared to see anything about it, but i was all about it for even longer than that. watching these old esports clips, games i watched live at the time, is just too good. these are iconic moments and just absolutely incredible plays in a game i once loved. the xpeke backdoor is seirously one of the most iconic in a list of iconic clips. as soon as i saw fnatic and xpeke i instantly knew what it was and loved the long buildup to it. these were really fun times
0:52 omfg that ready screen and then number of people popping out. Ngl that was my first time playing league around 2012. I was still struggling from coop ai, and then my first PvP game I was so freaking nervous And then at snake draft normals, I was the team captain in charge of banning. Like I was playing at worlds like bruh I was so nervous
Usually when someone asks "why is this champion suddenly meta?" The answer is usually to do with new items. Characters really need good synergy with op items to be considered great, I find.
Amazing vid. 5 stars. I love everything even after not playing lol for what 10 years+? Huge nostalgia trip. Though i have to say, you said the game was fairly new, with no online guides and stats. But as I remember, at season 3 league was feeling old, and new player coming in felt like they already missed so much, and took so long to start playing, and understanding the game. Rune page guides where easily accessible and very important, as they had a much bigger impact on your damage and in game build before the patch. Right about when i stopped playing. Love from Portugal
Let's not forget the really strong version of Exhaust, reducing damage by 50%, causing any early counter to Kassadin to have no impact if they decided to all in. Kassadin, ironically, would just run away if the same happened to him. I remember thinking "If this guy is so OP, why can't I just play him in Blind Pick?". I didn't ever see him there at the time. I started playing him, and found him to be REALLY strong. I learned him, and eventually, after he got nerfed, I knew enough about how to play him to still use him as a magic damage counter. Kassadin went from OP to "you can still run games with him if you last pick him or counter pick". I still like Kassadin a lot.
My first penta was with gragas. But it was a huge team fight so most of the enemy team was low. Second penta was with kass. My team got wiped and i just dived in late game and washed the whole team 😂.
what i really liked while watching were the timestamps, especially for the sponsor. if it's a good ad i'm happy to watch it. if not i can skip to the video. BTW never played Lol but since the last Worlds as well as Arcane and LR now immersed in the LoL RUclips swamp. I love it subscribed!
Royal club going into the finals being like "Idk how we win vs SKT." Is probably how teams still feel today, 11 years later.
Truly the greatest team of all time.
@Kepitano🎉 7:32 the 7
I’ll watch this but my feed BETTER not start getting spammed with league vids
It did, didn't it 😂
Bruh, i don't even play this damn game......
Ur cooked buddy
Same
I'm cooked.
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.
Perhaps I got lucky, but I never met a cocky and rude Pantheon main... Unlike Yasuo, and Yone mains for example....
To be fair, I didn't play league before the Panth rework.
What a story. Thank you for sharing
that’s me
something similar happend playing with my team our midlaner counterpicked pantheon into kassadin. It was a show lol
today in things that never happened
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.
I played Talon into him at the time, physical damage and silenced him by jumping on him. If I could get a small lead early, it would snowball out of control.
@SinzariI mained kassa and beat talons and pantheons too, but barely got to play him on ranked
It was a two way street as a mid main who picked every time he was open, almost no one knew how to lane against him and no other position had a clue.
I was a Kassadin main before this time, and during this time. Man, those were the days. I could get him like 30% of the time if I told my team not to ban him. Talon was not the hardest counter for sure. It was Pantheon.
@shleyLX That's not really true, it's not symmetrical. A player who wants to play against Kassadin will play against every Kassadin player, but a player who wants to play Kassadin would still have to play other champs like 70% of the time because the enemy team would ban him.
I never saw Kassadin in a ranked game, but I saw him in a 2014 Urf Game...
That's the kinda stuff people have to go to therapy for
I am so sorry for your loss.
Oh my… Hopefully he was a teammate
Ewwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww I too played season 4 kassadin in urf and that should count as at least 4 war crimes
Haven't played League in 5 years and got flashbacks reading this
He had attack speed, mana drain and armor penetration because he was League of Legends' version of Anti Mage. That's why he also had and still has magic damage reduction and a blink
Kassadin existed when the champions roster was pretty low, he had no counters, today league is different even if he still had the same buffs he would be shutdown way early by any mid bully before he scale out of control
@youneskasdiyoure trolling right? If old kassa existed right now it would be the most broken shit in existence
@youneskasdi i agree. thats why they should bring him back to how he was before. i dont even care about the silence atp, just give me my ult range back please
@youneskasdi He still has no counters (except, maybe, Talon). Countering him is entirely reliant on the rest of the team being able to shut him down (i.e. if your team troll picks with shit like Karma support, Vlad top, etc. you've automatically lost the game), because his lane counters only exist until he reaches level 6 and half an item.
Right now you go, say, Zed, he picks Doran's shield and Bone plating and you'll maybe end up kill him once pre-6 and after that he can just force trades whenever your W/R are down and either force you out of lane or outright kill you.
@burntsouffle he would probably never come back as before. And probably should not. Especially the silence.
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
As an old day Swain player, Kass was one of the worst nightmares for me. I also played Kass well until they killed that champion altogether. Since then I haven’t touched it much and now it might even struggles to win a bot match. The nerf was so devastating.
I have nightmares of s3 kassawin teleporting on top of me and deleting me as a support main 😭
Or if I was unlucky to be playing LB and against a kassawin who had more jumps and could definitely out run me.
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.
Yep and the random times kassadin would get through it caused people to practically first time him, and tbh sometimes it’d even work lol even if overall the WR was lower then it could have been
i love how Xpeke has become synonymous to Kassadin. Its like he is part of the Kassadin Lore.
Indeed
racism and xpeke, the kassadin lore
KI BARRIER
All that just to be dunked by faker even the most broken champ can't win no wonder eu and needed 2019
I still say "is that xpeke?" when I see a kassadin popping off
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!"
Right! It added to the myth of the game. We still make kassawin memes when he shows up these days
I still miss the old lore pages! There has never been a solid replacement.
Is this jungle? No this is Kassidan. Hi is this support. No this is Kassidan. Hello is this top. No this is KASSIDAN!
Who is kassidan?
Kassadin*
Minor spelling mistake: World explodes
@jmir1 bro he misspelled it 3 times
@blufleymthat’s called dyslexia
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.
"At this point, there's no such thing as a new player. Only a Yasuo main who can't leave Silver" - SsethTzeentach
Invisibility was insanely busted back then 😂😂. Made me start running the red trinket it certain games if the enemy jung was reng or Kha’zix cuz I can’t trust my support 😂
I played 400 games in s3, 1000 games in s4, and 800 games in s5. I think I only saw Kassadin once or twice.
A terrifying cryptid.
I remember people flaming in champion select when someone forgets to ban Kassadin and the enemy picks it 😂
I started playing league in s3 when ziggs came out and somehow got to play 150 ranked games during his infamous permaban period. Got me to gold 1 on my first season of playing lol
And you probably didn't pre rework karma once xD
I started playing in S3. I was beonze. I asked what to ban. Dude just said "you always ban kassadin TF and eve" he didnt know himself why
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
Ngl I cry over losing all the old splash arts 😂 I love how crusty some of them looked.
okay, but why was thresh ban rate so high in 2013 ?
Megatron cloak ( dont remember the name ) Tresh was Impossible to kill
Dude thresh was beloved by Korean supports and at the time in 2013 his utility was the highest in the hands of a good player. This is before many kits became power creeped. Thresh had almost everything
Madlife
Thresh back then was what K'Sante and other new champs with overloaded kits are today, he brought a lot of utility to the table and was flashy as hell in good hands
@bqv9i318 no one else have ever been like Mad....
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
I remember playing on bronze
3 or 4 on season 2 league and got to pick Kassadin once after he was banned for months. I went 0-9 that game. Good old times
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.
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 😂
I wonder whats Xpeke up to these days.
He's stuck in the take over worlds music video
Pretty sure he runs astralis esports
He's doing Sjokz
@--A3-- xD
@consortium30 waaaaa
Seeing Ocelote cry is now even more soothing than it was in the past.
that was when i played league. i think i played him like twice , didn't know what to do. was a monster when facing him though.
I remember that win at 14:40. We were all on the edge of our seats, one of the best moments in League ever. Being unbalanced in that way is how League got big imo.
I miss back and forth games.
imo Old Kassadin was indeed that strong, and to me it was always about the mobility. Back when he first arrived with that monstrous blinking range he was the epitome of mobility, and the presence of old DFG made it entirely possible for him to be standing outside of vision and then hop in and combo someone to death instantly, then often blink back out again with little chance of dying. Honestly he felt like the part of a single player game where they give you wildly upgraded powers to let you have a god-mode fantasy moment in a flashback or from a special temporary power up, but he was just always there, waiting to appear on top of you and vaporize you, providing the most depressing jump scare in gaming
Yea the flash every 5 seconds was impossible to escape and the silence made you not be able to even retaliate.
Which old DFG? That thing has seen some changes in its time aha
@lilbuddyrocks The active ability that scaled with ap and could nuke you i think. I even played that thing on taric support to nuke the enemy adc.
That xPeke moment never gets old when you see the build up to it. Glorious.
Back in season 3 and 4 when I started playing league I had a extremly toxic friend who only played Kassadin and Diana. He was complaining why I try to main twisted fate, he said tf is the worst mage in game so we had a duel. Played 1vs1 custom tf vs kassa. I wrecked him because I built ad tf with very high mr. He couldn't figure out how he deals so low dmg. I killed him like 10 times and won a game. I mean we were silver rank back then but because of that friend I learned not to be afraid of kassa. He was extremly op but not unbeatable in casual games.
People have really forgotten about s1 xin Zhao
I'm glad this video exists to document Season 3 Kassadin too because I started in May 2013 and VIVIDLY remember Kassadin's ban rate and his legendary tales in those early days of my ranked experience, yet lately I only hear people talking about "Season 4 Kassadin" as if he was not notable at all in Season 3. His story is longer than most people think.
On release Xin, on release Jax, and Kassawin. I miss seasons 1-5 3 and 4 were peak league, and then feral flare and the elder jungle items with jungle ezreal... sigh
The best game of league I have ever played was on prenerf kass. I rarely got to play him in ranked. But one time he didn’t get banned and I went 33-9. Absolutely hilarious. He definitely needed the nerf.
remember my only time ever playing kassadin in ranked back then, my entire team inted and we lost. hahahah
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.
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!
thank you very much, I'm glad you enjoy! it means a lot
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!
Interesting to note: After Patch 5.4 (February 25th 2015) Kassadin was buffed in every single patch he was part in (disregarding bugfixes) up until Patch 8.24b (December 18th 2018) where his base health regeneration was reduced to 6 from 8.
One of the things that caught me by suprise was seeing pre rework aatrox banned in some of these games
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 !!!
It used to be one of the best games ever back then. Items weren’t “unique” so you can infinite stack an item. Rabadons was crazy. Or for funsies go 6 rods for the heck of it on Leblanc.
Or the old Yi had AP in his Q and W, and his healing wasn’t so bad, it just instant healed when you had ap,I think it scaled like 120%AP or something, and his Q was like 100% or 120% as well.
Meta also didn’t exist lol. Used to go Ashe mid, or anyone mid, sometimes doubling in mid lane cause why not lol. No support at times. 2 top other games, some with no jungler cause at the time it was fucking hard to learn. Cloth and pots was where it was at if you aren’t Warwick.
Then you had the Christmas and Halloween maps that they deleted cause of garbage Esports.
It was genuinely one of the greatest games of all time. Now it’s kinda eh, everything is balanced around their Esports so you gotta pray pro players don’t use your favorite champ. If they do, then riot gonna nerf them to oblivion so pros don’t use him anymore and nobody else can til the new season. Renekton, and pantheon always playing hot potato with this lol.
Such good times though.
Daniel needs to riftwalk again
I saw xPeke backdoor live inside Spodek Katowice 2013 IEM, it was crazy the crowd went wild! Overall the whole LoL torunament thing was amazing for a 13 year old to witness live!
They were talking about Bjergsen before he ever got to TSM my GOAT
One big aspect of Kass's ban was also how bans worked. It wasn't just a lower number, it was a single person doing all the banning. This means that bans were much more team focused as opposed to individual lane focused.
As someone has said: the fact that there are still 20% chance people lost on Kassadin, is insane
Man I never saw him in the game, and I've been playing since 2015. Just forgot about him completly, all I remember is that guy pulling the absolute craziest win. I'm old so i forgot his name, but his nick was synonymous with asspulling victory in a lost game
Ty for the early christmas present
I remember playing lucian into kassadin, being 10-0 vs 0-9 with 90 cs vs 25 at 10 minutes and him finishing the game 22-10 with 2 pentas and a quadra.
He's been perma banned by me for 6k+ games ever since.
i’ve been playing all month and I haven’t seen kassadin yet in ranked
I was addicted to league back then, and loved playing Kassadin, but haven't played it much, even going from 600 to 1300 LP on EU east
I miss the old Kassadin, to this day Im still an otp but this was so fun back then... The only time i ''stopped'' playing Kassadin was when i swapped him for Syndra , back when she was also an insane monster close to Kassadin's nightmare.
Seeing the old item art at 8:30 made me so nostalgic.
it was a better time
I remember ashe mid used to be played so much my buddy played malphite mid every game to counter it XD
your buddy was the original meta breaker
5:55 Cho'Gath's W scream silences. So, within range, it is also point and click.
I remember this period. I had just started playing league and was confused why he was default banned every game. That is until I played against one. He was one 1v5ing and steam rolled us with zero difficulty
I can't wait for
-Kalista from jumping to crawling
-Azir, Sand box
(Great video as always)
I still remember the one time Kassadin got through bans and was first picked. I was the unlucky mid playing against him. He completely dumpstered our game, then said 'thanks for not bannin kassa' in post game lobby. That was the last time I let Kassa go through.
Bro the xpeke backdoor was so iconic at the time ! its sad that new players dont know this
i remember when i start to play league it's was maybe season 3 or 4 and my friends always dodge the game every time someone pick kassadin in the enemy team , and one time they let slide and we lose the game and kassadin got more than 30+ kills it was super stupid op at that time
there was no justice playing against kassadin back in the day. I had to experience in my naiveté why kassadin must be banned since none of my team members nor I had understood the power of kassadin, but we did after he singlehandedly dismantled our team in 15 minutes with a score of 32/1.
i've been waiting for a new upload ! i love your videos keep it up !
I remember playing Kassadin with Yi build and attack dmg.. only picking his most needed item RoA then the rest whatever i want.. I was the most crazy Kassadin main XD
Nobody ever really seemed to care about 3s, but let's not forget his Ult was quite uniquely also able to jump the base wall on Twisted Treeline. RIP that map.
Gone but not forgotten 🫡
They should bring kassawin again and see if he can defeat the 200 year experience champs
5:50 fidlesticks silence... omg it was aweful
the legend of support fiddlesticks, just pelting you over and over
Never played lol still watched
18:14 C9 Balls 😳
New video!!!!! Man i love your video’s, thank’s for the early christmas present!
I remember watching that xpeke moment live. What a legend.
I remember in season 1 when i used to play Kassadin a lot...or well tankadin hehe. With the old runes, full magic pen, armor and AP/lvl, then build sorc shoes, arch staff, warmogs, rabadon, thornmail and force of nature, he was a very tanky high damage unstoppable machine...at least with the skill levels and knowledge of the players back then. It was an idea i got from a YT video from NinjAChurch
I first timed kassadin in ranked. Team made me pick him. High plat. Got like 15 kills
peak champ design
There was a time where amumu and shen were also must pick/ban champs in solo q. Not to the extremeness as kass was but still noteworthy in leagues history
It was so broken that's true but every single time I watch a video like this for old League of Legends champions I get so nostalgic for some reason. Yeah the game was far from perfect but I still miss it. Thank you for this great video by the way, you did an amazing job!
Myth! Just finished watching all of your videos, thank you for all of the time you put in. I really enjoyed every single one and will be excited for any videos you make in the future. Have a great 2025!
Thanks for all the research you did for this video!
666k views from 6 months ago? I came at quite the time to view this video.
Ayyy new Myth video
Ahhh yes, I remember when me and my bud could solo Baron at level 1 with Jax dodge chance. This truly used to be an incredibly fun game. We'd write build paths on index cards for different champions 😂
im watching all your videos
its been years and years since i've played league or even cared to see anything about it, but i was all about it for even longer than that. watching these old esports clips, games i watched live at the time, is just too good. these are iconic moments and just absolutely incredible plays in a game i once loved.
the xpeke backdoor is seirously one of the most iconic in a list of iconic clips. as soon as i saw fnatic and xpeke i instantly knew what it was and loved the long buildup to it.
these were really fun times
sometimes the nerf happens so their favorite skin line sells
Woohoo new myth video!
0:52 omfg that ready screen and then number of people popping out. Ngl that was my first time playing league around 2012. I was still struggling from coop ai, and then my first PvP game I was so freaking nervous
And then at snake draft normals, I was the team captain in charge of banning. Like I was playing at worlds like bruh I was so nervous
The pressure was real lol, I remember the same feeling
The sound effect when match is found! There was something so threatening about it lol but I loved it
Usually when someone asks "why is this champion suddenly meta?" The answer is usually to do with new items. Characters really need good synergy with op items to be considered great, I find.
Thank you for this trip down memory lane. This was the best era of League.
I love your videos! Keep up the good work!
"Oh he seems too strong. What should we do with him. Wait just go from 700 range to 400 and some other stuffs, seems pretty fair".
Amazing vid. 5 stars. I love everything even after not playing lol for what 10 years+? Huge nostalgia trip. Though i have to say, you said the game was fairly new, with no online guides and stats. But as I remember, at season 3 league was feeling old, and new player coming in felt like they already missed so much, and took so long to start playing, and understanding the game. Rune page guides where easily accessible and very important, as they had a much bigger impact on your damage and in game build before the patch. Right about when i stopped playing. Love from Portugal
Whew just HEARING “Bjergson” had me in my nostalgic feels
Let's not forget the really strong version of Exhaust, reducing damage by 50%, causing any early counter to Kassadin to have no impact if they decided to all in. Kassadin, ironically, would just run away if the same happened to him.
I remember thinking "If this guy is so OP, why can't I just play him in Blind Pick?". I didn't ever see him there at the time. I started playing him, and found him to be REALLY strong. I learned him, and eventually, after he got nerfed, I knew enough about how to play him to still use him as a magic damage counter.
Kassadin went from OP to "you can still run games with him if you last pick him or counter pick". I still like Kassadin a lot.
I played Kass in like 2012 before having a long break and now it's my main actually
My first penta was with gragas. But it was a huge team fight so most of the enemy team was low. Second penta was with kass. My team got wiped and i just dived in late game and washed the whole team 😂.
Definitely need to do an Aatrox video at some point. The rework basically made a completely different champion
good idea - and completely right
Man, I used to play during season 3 to 7 and you brought me great old memories and nightmares at the same time.
Thanks for the video, huge work
Glad you enjoyed!
I had a build on rammus back then that just stomped kassadin. Loved when he was picked
Fine youtube you recommended this 20 times ill watch but no league vids
Why such a huge jump from 700 to 450, couldn't they just slowly dial it back to find the sweet spot
The Classic "xpeke" chat after ending the game through backdoor today still exist truly legends never die
Yoooo that solo win from fanatic was crazy
i miss kassadin before these ranged mid was a thing
14:50 poor Kev1n. He couldn't do Jackshit with Olaf. Also it's funny how fundamentally little Olaf and Kassadin changed since then.
seeing old league makes we sad what shitshow we have today
what i really liked while watching were the timestamps, especially for the sponsor.
if it's a good ad i'm happy to watch it. if not i can skip to the video.
BTW never played Lol but since the last Worlds as well as Arcane and LR now immersed in the LoL RUclips swamp.
I love it
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Old Kassadin was angry until they released his daughter.