Kayle vs Kassadin
How to Beat Kassadin as Kayle
based on 1,537 Kayle vs Kassadin matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Kayle vs Kassadin Matchup Summary
Best Kayle vs Kassadin Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Kassadin as Kayle
Tips for Playing as Kayle against Kassadin
Kayle benefits greatly from Attack Damage and Ability Power, making hybrid items like Nashor's Tooth and Hextech Gunblade very effective on her.
Using Divine Judgment on a high-DPS ally can turn the tides of battle by giving your ally free reign to attack.
Kayle's attacks become incredibly powerful once she gains attack range from Divine Ascent. Play safe until then.
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.
Kayle vs Kassadin Counter Stats
How to Counter Kassadin with Kayle in LoL
The stat comparisons provided here underscore some important Kayle against Kassadin matchup statistics that may help you interpret the differences and similarities between this pair of champions. For instance, Kayle’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Kassadin’s ratio of NaN, showing that Kayle may be more central to her team's team fighting capability than Kassadin..
Kayle usually has a slightly smaller longest killing spree than her counter does. Commonly, she receives less damage than Kassadin. This commonly reflects different amounts of tankyness; however, it can also show that the one champion has less mobility and thus is not able to escape additional damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Kayle and Kassadin
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Who is Better, Kayle or Kassadin?
Both League champions are great champions. Both champs have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Kayle usually fairs equally well when taking on Kassadin, with a 50.5% win rate. As a result, Kayle makes an ok counter to Kassadin.
While Kayle does have a higher winrate than Kassadin, when they face off with one another, Kayle 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 Kayle into Kassadinas her relative depth means that you may not be able to reach her full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Furthermore, Kayle also has only a small amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Kassadin. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when trying to counter champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Kayle vs Kassadin matchups, Kayle is the better champ with a similar win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during team fights.
Kayle is a decent counter to Kassadin. You will do well by focussing your actions on increasing your gold and cs and taking out objectives. If you can do that, you should hold your own as Kayle against Kassadin.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Kayle in order to counter Kassadin during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to gather a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you mind the build and stats displayed here, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Kayle on average picks up a similar amount of CS as Kassadin. Champs who typically don't get many minion kills typically don't have to have much CS to be effective, such as support champions. They are able to scale properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually have to have a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the values reported on this page to do well.
The best items to prioritize in your Kayle versus Kassadin build include Nashor's Tooth, Riftmaker, and Kraken Slayer. When Kayle included at least these three items in her build, she performed much better versus Kassadin than with many other common builds. In fact, Kayle boasted an average winrate of 50.5% when countering Kassadin with these items in her kit.
To have the highest likelihood of beating Kassadin as Kayle, Kayle players should take the Lethal Tempo, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Last Stand, Bone Plating, and Overgrowth runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Of all the rune sets players used for Kayle vs Kassadin counters, this composite of runes resulted in the best win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 50.5% win rate overall.
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