Tristana vs Kassadin
How to Beat Kassadin as Tristana
based on 1,832 Tristana vs Kassadin matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Tristana vs Kassadin Matchup Summary
Best Tristana vs Kassadin Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Kassadin as Tristana
Tips for Playing as Tristana against Kassadin
Use Rapid Fire to help stack up your Explosive Charge on enemy champions.
Her massive gun allows Tristana to fire on targets at a great distance. Utilize this to prevent your enemies from ever laying a hand on you.
Use Rocket Jump after you have stacked up your Explosive Charge on an enemy to finish them off with a burst of damage.
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.
Tristana vs Kassadin Counter Stats
How to Counter Kassadin with Tristana in LoL
The stat comparisons provided here underscore several vital Tristana vs. Kassadin matchup stats that can help you interpret the differences and similarities between this pair of champs. Tristana’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Kassadin’s ratio of NaN, highlighting that Tristana may be more central to her team's team fighting potential than Kassadin..
Tristana often has a similar longest kill spree as her foe does. Typically, she receives less damage than Kassadin. This often reflects differing health capacities, yet it can also indicate that the champ with increased health has less mobility and thus is not able to escape further damage when poked or engaged.
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Who is Better, Tristana or Kassadin?
Both LoL champions are great champions. Both have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Tristana usually wins when trying to fight Kassadin, with a 52.2% win rate. Therefore, Tristana makes a good counter to Kassadin.
While Tristana does have a higher winrate than Kassadin, when facing one another, Tristana also has a much lower difficulty level that makes her a less challenging champion to learn. You should be be fine when picking Tristana into Kassadin.
Additionally, Tristana also has almost no amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Kassadin. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when fighting champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Tristana vs Kassadin matchups, Tristana is the better champion with a noticably higher win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during teamfights.
Tristana is an above average counter to Kassadin. Make sure you focus your gameplay on maximizing your CS and taking out objectives. If you can do that, you should hold your own as Tristana against Kassadin.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Tristana to counter Kassadin during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to gather a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you mind the build and stats shown above, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Tristana typically racks up a similar amount of CS compared to Kassadin. Champs who on average don't acquire many minion kills often don't need much CS to be effective, such as supports. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually need many items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the values displayed on this page to do well.
The most important items to prioritize in your Tristana versus Kassadin build consist of Lord Dominik's Regards, Bloodthirster, and Kraken Slayer. When Tristana combined at least these three items in her build, she did a lot better when facing Kassadin than with most other typical builds. In fact, Tristana had an average winrate of 52.2% when countering Kassadin with this build.
To have the best chance of beating Kassadin as Tristana, you should take the Hail of Blades, Taste of Blood, Eyeball Collection, Treasure Hunter, Legend: Bloodline, and Triumph runes from the Domination and Precision rune sets. Out of all the rune builds players used for Tristana vs Kassadin face-offs, this order of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 52.2% win rate overall.
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