Kassadin vs Tristana
How to Beat Tristana as Kassadin
based on 1,832 Kassadin vs Tristana matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Kassadin vs Tristana Matchup Summary
Best Kassadin vs Tristana Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Tristana as Kassadin
Tips for Playing as Kassadin against Tristana
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 Tristana
Stand away from your creeps in a lane to take less collateral damage from Explosive Charge.
If you see Tristana activate Rapid Fire in a fight, stun her and try to back off until the spell dissipates.
Kassadin vs Tristana Counter Stats
How to Counter Tristana with Kassadin in LoL
The stat comparisons provided here feature some valuable Kassadin versus Tristana counter statistics that can help you distinguish the distinctions between the two. For instance, Kassadin’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Tristana’s KDA ratio of NaN, highlighting that Kassadin may be more central to his team's team fighting effectiveness than Tristana..
Kassadin typically has a similar longest killing spree as his counter does. Typically, he takes more damage than Tristana. This commonly reflects differing health capacities; however, it can also show that the one champ has less mobility and thus is unable to kite away from additional harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Kassadin and Tristana
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Who is Better, Kassadin or Tristana?
Both LoL champions are great champions. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Kassadin usually loses when facing off against Tristana, with a 47.8% win rate. Therefore, Kassadin makes a bad counter for Tristana.
While Kassadin does have a lower winrate than Tristana, when they face off with one another, Kassadin also has a much greater difficulty level that makes him a more time consuming champ to learn and master. You should expect to face a difficult match when picking Kassadin into Tristanaas his relative depth means you may not be able to reach his full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Additionally, Kassadin also has some amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Tristana. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when trying to counter champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion in League of Legends, in Kassadin vs Tristana matchups, Tristana is the better champ with a lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during team fights.
Kassadin is a bad counter to Tristana. Make sure you focus your gameplay on keeping up your CS and destroying objectives. If you are able to do that, you should do very well as Kassadin against Tristana.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Kassadin in order to counter Tristana during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to gather a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you mind the build and suggestions presented here, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Kassadin usually racks up a similar amount of CS relative to Tristana. Champions who typically don't get many minion kills often don't need much CS to be valuable teammates, such as sup champs. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, often have to have several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the numbers displayed on this page to do well.
The most important items to have in your Kassadin versus Tristana build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Malignance, and Rod of Ages. When Kassadin bought at least these three items in his build, he performed a lot better countering Tristana than with most other typical builds. In fact, Kassadin had an average winrate of 47.8% battling Tristana with this counter build.
To have the greatest likelihood of beating Tristana as Kassadin, Kassadin players should equip the Fleet Footwork, Presence of Mind, Legend: Tenacity, Coup de Grace, Overgrowth, and Second Wind runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Of all the rune builds we have analyed for Kassadin vs Tristana clashes, this set of runes resulted in the best win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 47.8% win rate overall.
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