Kassadin vs Taliyah
How to Beat Taliyah as Kassadin
based on 600 Kassadin vs Taliyah matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Kassadin vs Taliyah Matchup Summary
Best Kassadin vs Taliyah Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Taliyah as Kassadin
Tips for Playing as Kassadin against Taliyah
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.
Advice to Win Against Taliyah
When Taliyah casts Unraveled Earth in the lane, be on the lookout for Seismic Shove. If she throws you into her minefield, the throws and stones will break your bones.
Taliyah's Threaded Volley is locked into a direction. If she's throwing rocks at you, dodge to the side!
Kassadin vs Taliyah Counter Stats
How to Counter Taliyah with Kassadin in LoL
The stats shown on this page show several significant Kassadin versus Taliyah counter stats that can help us realize the differences between the pair. As an example, Kassadin’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Taliyah’s KDA ratio of NaN, indicating that Kassadin may be more central to his team's team fighting capability than Taliyah..
Kassadin normally has a slightly larger longest kill spree than his enemy does. On average, he receives more damage than Taliyah. This commonly reflects different amounts of tankyness, but it can also show that the champion with increased health has less mobility and thus is unable to kite away from additional harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Kassadin and Taliyah
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Who is Better, Kassadin or Taliyah?
Both LoL champions are great. Both have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Kassadin usually wins when taking on Taliyah, with a 52.7% win rate. As a result, Kassadin makes a good counter to Taliyah.
While Kassadin does have a higher win rate than Taliyah, when facing one another, Kassadin also has a much greater level of difficulty that makes him a more challenging champion to pick up and master. You don't need to be too worried when picking Kassadin into Taliyahas his relative depth means you may not be able to reach his full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Additionally, Kassadin has some amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Taliyah. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when facing champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion overall in League of Legends, in Kassadin vs Taliyah matchups, Kassadin is the better champion with a noticably higher win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during teamfights.
Kassadin is an above average counter for Taliyah. You will do well by focussing your gameplay on maximizing your CS and taking out objectives. If you do that, you should hold your own as Kassadin against Taliyah.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Kassadin to counter Taliyah during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and stats shown above, you will increase 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 as Taliyah. Champions who on average don't acquire many minion kills often don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as supports. 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, typically require many items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the numbers reported on this page to do well.
The best items to use in your Kassadin versus Taliyah build include Seraph's Embrace, Malignance, and Zhonya's Hourglass. When Kassadin included at least these three pieces in his build, he did much better versus Taliyah than with most other commonly used item sets. In fact, Kassadin had an average win rate of 52.7% battling Taliyah with these items in his kit.
To have the greatest chance of annihilating Taliyah as Kassadin, you should equip the First Strike, Magical Footwear, Future's Market, Cosmic Insight, Sudden Impact, and Ultimate Hunter runes from the Inspiration and Domination rune sets. Of all the rune builds players picked for Kassadin vs Taliyah matchups, this set of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 52.7% winrate overall.
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