Kindred vs Kai'Sa
How to Beat Kai'Sa as Kindred
based on 3,178 Kindred vs Kai'Sa matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Kindred vs Kai'Sa Matchup Summary
Best Kindred vs Kai'Sa Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Kai'Sa as Kindred
Tips for Playing as Kindred against Kai'Sa
Pick which Hunts you want to pursue carefully; getting many of them is the key to success as the game goes on.
Don't go in first to a large team fight. Wait for your teammates to initiate.
Moving around between attacks while jungling will help you avoid damage and also generate more heals from Wolf's Frenzy.
Advice to Win Against Kai'Sa
Kai'Sa is very vulnerable to getting outranged by mages and long range carries.
Make sure to place wards in your blind spots so you can see Kai'Sa coming.
Kai'Sa is very good at picking off isolated enemies. Stick together against her.
Kindred vs Kai'Sa Counter Stats
How to Counter Kai'Sa with Kindred in LoL
The stat comparisons provided here highlight some strategic Kindred versus Kai'Sa counter stats that may help you figure out the distinctions between the pair. Kindred’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Kai'Sa’s ratio of NaN, showing that Kindred may be more central to their team's team fighting capacity than Kai'Sa..
Kindred typically has a similar longest kill spree as their enemy does. On average, they takes more damage than Kai'Sa. This commonly reflects different amounts of tankyness; however, it can also imply that the one champ has less agility and thus is not able to kite away from additional damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Kindred and Kai'Sa
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Who is Better, Kindred or Kai'Sa?
Both League champions are great. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Kindred usually wins when facing off against Kai'Sa, with a 51.3% win rate. Thus, Kindred makes a good counter for Kai'Sa.
While Kindred does have a higher winrate compared to Kai'Sa, when they face off with one another, Kindred also has a lower difficulty level that makes them a less time consuming champion to learn and master. You should be careful when picking Kindred into Kai'Sa.
Furthermore, Kindred also has only a small amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Kai'Sa. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when fighting champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion in League of Legends, in Kindred vs Kai'Sa matchups, Kindred is the better champ with a higher win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during teamfights.
Kindred is a decent counter for Kai'Sa. Make sure you focus your strategy on increasing your gold and cs and destroying objectives. If you can do that, you should do very well as Kindred against Kai'Sa.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Kindred in order to counter Kai'Sa during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to pick up a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and stats presented here, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Kindred on average picks up a lot less CS compared to Kai'Sa. Champions who typically don't get many minion kills often don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as sup champs. These kinds of champions are able to scale properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, often have to have many items to be effective. In either case, try to surpass the values displayed here to do well.
The top items to focus on in your Kindred versus Kai'Sa build consist of Guardian Angel, Terminus, and Kraken Slayer. When Kindred incorporated at least these three items in their build, they did significantly better against Kai'Sa than with most other commonly used builds. In fact, Kindred boasted an average win rate of 51.3% battling Kai'Sa with this build.
To have the best probability of crushing Kai'Sa as Kindred, Kindred players should equip the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Coup de Grace, Sudden Impact, and Treasure Hunter runes from the Precision and Domination rune sets. Out of all the runes players picked for Kindred vs Kai'Sa counterpicks, this set of runes yielded the highest win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 51.3% win rate overall.
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