Kassadin vs Nilah
How to Beat Nilah as Kassadin
based on 772 Kassadin vs Nilah matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Kassadin vs Nilah Matchup Summary
Best Kassadin vs Nilah Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Nilah as Kassadin
Tips for Playing as Kassadin against Nilah
Kassadin's ultimate has many uses and is on a shorter cooldown than most, use it often.
Kassadin has multiple item paths; he can go caster via Mana and Ability Power or anti-caster with Cooldown Reduction and Magic Resist.
Try to get the Ancient Golem buff to counteract Riftwalk's increasing Mana cost.
Kassadin vs Nilah Counter Stats
How to Counter Nilah with Kassadin in LoL
The stat comparisons shown here highlight several valuable Kassadin versus Nilah counter statistics that may help us explain the distinctions between this set of champs. Kassadin’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Nilah’s ratio of NaN, showing that Kassadin may be more central to his team's team fighting capacity than Nilah..
Kassadin often has a similar longest killing spree as his counter does. Commonly, he takes more damage than Nilah. This is usually reflective of different amounts of tankyness, yet it can also hint that the champion with more health has less mobility and thus is unable to kite away from further harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Kassadin and Nilah
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Who is Better, Kassadin or Nilah?
Both League champions are great champions. Both have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Kassadin usually loses when taking on Nilah, with a 44.4% win rate. Thus, Kassadin makes a poor counter for Nilah.
While Kassadin does have a much lower win rate compared to Nilah, when on opposite teams, Kassadin also has a lower level of difficulty that makes him a less time consuming character to learn. You should expect to face a difficult match when picking Kassadin into Nilahas his relative depth means you may not be able to unleash his full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Furthermore, Kassadin has some amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Nilah. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when trying to counter champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Kassadin vs Nilah matchups, Nilah is the better champion with a much lower win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during late stage team fights.
Kassadin is a garbage counter to Nilah. You will do well by focussing your tactics on keeping up your gold income and clearing objectives. If you can do that, you should do very well as Kassadin against Nilah.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Kassadin in order to counter Nilah during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to learn a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you mind the build and tips displayed here, you should grow your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Kassadin most often racks up a similar amount of CS relative to Nilah. Champs who on average don't take many minion kills usualy don't require much CS to be effective, such as support champions. They are able to scale well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically require a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to exceed the values shown on this page to do well.
The best items to use in your Kassadin versus Nilah build include Seraph's Embrace, Rabadon's Deathcap, and Rod of Ages. When Kassadin used at least these three items in his build, he performed much better when facing Nilah than with many other typical item sets. In fact, Kassadin boasted an average win rate of 44.4% when playing against Nilah with this counter build.
To have the highest chance of crushing Nilah as Kassadin, Kassadin players should take the First Strike, Magical Footwear, Future's Market, Cosmic Insight, Sudden Impact, and Ultimate Hunter runes from the Inspiration and Domination rune sets. Out of all the rune sets players used for Kassadin vs Nilah counter picks, this mix of runes yielded the best win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 44.4% winrate overall.
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