Ahri vs Kassadin
How to Beat Kassadin as Ahri
based on 1,430 Ahri vs Kassadin matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Ahri vs Kassadin Matchup Summary
Best Ahri vs Kassadin Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Kassadin as Ahri
Tips for Playing as Ahri against Kassadin
Initiate team fights using Charm, and chase down stragglers with Spirit Rush.
Spirit Rush enables Ahri's abilities, it opens up paths for Charm, helps double hitting with Orb of Deception, and closes to make use of Fox-Fire.
Use Charm to set up your combos, it will make landing Orb of Deception and Fox-Fire dramatically easier.
Advice to Win Against Kassadin
It takes 6 spell casts for Kassadin's slow, Force Pulse, to become castable. If he levels up that ability, judiciously use your own skills while laning against him.
Kassadin deals mostly magic damage. If he's doing well consider buying magic resist items like Mercury's Treads and Banshee's Veil.
Each time Kassadin consecutively uses Riftwalk, he pays more and more mana. Keep this in mind as you chase him.
Ahri vs Kassadin Counter Stats
How to Counter Kassadin with Ahri in LoL
The stat comparisons shown here emphasize several significant Ahri versus Kassadin counter statistics that may help us appreciate the distinctions between the two. As an example, Ahri’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Kassadin’s KDA ratio of NaN, indicating that Ahri may be more central to her team's team fighting capability than Kassadin..
Ahri normally has a similar longest killing spree as her matchup does. On average, she receives less damage than Kassadin. This often reflects different amounts of tankyness; however, it can also hint that the one champion has less agility and thus is not able to escape further harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Ahri and Kassadin
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Who is Better, Ahri or Kassadin?
Both League champions are great champions. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Ahri usually fairs equally well when taking on Kassadin, with a 49.3% win rate. As a result, Ahri makes an ok counter for Kassadin.
While Ahri does have a lower winrate compared to Kassadin, when facing one another, Ahri also has a lower difficulty level that makes her a less time consuming character to pick up and master. You should be careful when picking Ahri into Kassadin.
Furthermore, Ahri has a good amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Kassadin. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when trying to counter champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion overall in League of Legends, in Ahri vs Kassadin matchups, Kassadin is the better champion with a similar win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during late stage team fights.
Ahri is a somewhat poor counter to Kassadin. You will do well by focussing your strategy on increasing your CS and taking out objectives. If you do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Ahri against Kassadin.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Ahri to counter Kassadin during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to gather a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and suggestions shown above, you will increase your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Ahri typically accumulates a similar amount of CS relative to Kassadin. Champions who typically don't take much CS typically don't require much CS to be effective, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, often require many items to be effective. In either situation, try to exceed the numbers displayed on this page to do well.
The most crucial items to focus on in your Ahri versus Kassadin build include Zhonya's Hourglass, Stormsurge, and Luden's Companion. When Ahri combined at least these three items in her build, she did significantly better countering Kassadin than with most other commonly used item sets. In fact, Ahri boasted an average win rate of 49.3% when playing against Kassadin with this build.
To have the greatest likelihood of vanquishing Kassadin as Ahri, Ahri players should equip the Electrocute, Taste of Blood, Eyeball Collection, Ultimate Hunter, Manaflow Band, and Transcendence runes from the Domination and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the rune builds that we analyzed for Ahri vs Kassadin LoL games, this composite of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 49.3% win rate overall.
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