Kai'Sa vs Heimerdinger
How to Beat Heimerdinger as Kai'Sa
based on 2,327 Kai'Sa vs Heimerdinger matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Kai'Sa vs Heimerdinger Matchup Summary
Best Kai'Sa vs Heimerdinger Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Heimerdinger as Kai'Sa
Tips for Playing as Kai'Sa against Heimerdinger
Make sure to buy items that will evolve at least 1 or 2 of your spells.
Work with your teammates to set up your Ultimate and optimize damage with your passive.
Try to catch enemy carries alone to burst them with Icathian Rain.
Advice to Win Against Heimerdinger
Be wary of Heimerdinger's Upgrade!!!, as he can use it to find an answer to most trouble he gets into. Once his ultimate is down, go in for the kill!
It's better to destroy all of Heimerdinger's turrets at once with the help of creeps than to fight them one at a time.
Kai'Sa vs Heimerdinger Counter Stats
How to Counter Heimerdinger with Kai'Sa in LoL
The stat comparisons provided here show several valuable Kai'Sa vs. Heimerdinger matchup stats that may help you figure out the differences between the pair. Kai'Sa’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Heimerdinger’s KDA ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Kai'Sa may be more central to her team's team fighting potential than Heimerdinger..
Kai'Sa normally has a slightly larger longest killing spree than her opponent does. Typically, she takes a similar amount of damage to Heimerdinger. This is usually reflective of differing health capacities, yet it can also imply that the one champion has less mobility and thus is unable to flee from additional damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Kai'Sa and Heimerdinger
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Who is Better, Kai'Sa or Heimerdinger?
Both LoL champions are great. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Kai'Sa usually loses when facing off against Heimerdinger, with a 46.3% win rate. As a result, Kai'Sa makes a poor counter to Heimerdinger.
While Kai'Sa does have a lower win rate than Heimerdinger, when on opposite teams, Kai'Sa also has a lower level of difficulty that makes her a less challenging character to pick up and master. You should be very concerned when picking Kai'Sa into Heimerdinger.
Furthermore, Kai'Sa has only a small amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Heimerdinger. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when trying to counter champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Kai'Sa vs Heimerdinger matchups, Heimerdinger is the better champ with a much lower win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during late stage team fights.
Kai'Sa is a garbage counter to Heimerdinger. You will do well by focussing your actions on keeping up your gold income and destroying objectives. If you can do that, you should hold your own as Kai'Sa against Heimerdinger.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Kai'Sa in order to counter Heimerdinger during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to learn a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and suggestions shown here, you should increase your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Kai'Sa most often gets a similar amount of CS relative to Heimerdinger. Champions who typically don't take many minion kills typically don't have to have much CS to be effective, such as supports. These kinds of champions are able to scale properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically need many items to be effective. In either case, try to exceed the numbers shown on this page to do well.
The most crucial items to focus on in your Kai'Sa versus Heimerdinger build include Guinsoo's Rageblade, Blade of The Ruined King, and Kraken Slayer. When Kai'Sa combined at least these three pieces in her build, she did significantly better countering Heimerdinger than with many other commonly used builds. In fact, Kai'Sa had an average win rate of 46.3% when countering Heimerdinger with these items in her kit.
To have the highest chance of annihilating Heimerdinger as Kai'Sa, you should equip the Lethal Tempo, Presence of Mind, Legend: Bloodline, Coup de Grace, Biscuit Delivery, and Magical Footwear runes from the Precision and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations that we analyzed for Kai'Sa vs Heimerdinger counterpicks, this blending of runes yielded the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 46.3% win rate overall.
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