Kassadin with Kalista
How to Synergize Kassadin and Kalista
based on 477 Kassadin with Kalista pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Kassadin Kalista Synergy Summary
Best Kassadin vs Kalista Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Kassadin and Kalista
Tips for Playing as Kassadin with Kalista
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 Understand How Kalista Will Play
Rend is a valuable last hitting aid, since its cooldown resets if it kills a target.
Entering a move order once to trigger Martial Poise will not clear Kalista's basic attack target.
Due to her passive, Kalista's Move Speed is effectively increased by Attack Speed.
Kassadin Kalista Synergy Stats
How to Play with Kalista as Kassadin in LoL
The Kassadin Kalista synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Kalista, compared to his overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how his gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Kassadin sees a very large drop in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Kalista. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This negative change shows that Kalista helps Kassadin perform not as well in ranked League of Legends matches. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Kassadin is paired with Kalista, he observes a barely noticable drop in his total damage output. This change may indicate that Kalista doesn't help protection for him to deal more damage or that her support also helps extend the game's duration. Similarly, when Kassadin is played with Kalista on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing alongside Kalista.
Moreover, when Kassadin plays with Kalista on the same side, he often takes less damage than when he plays alone. Taking not as much damage could mean that Kalista does a decent job of protecting Kassadin during team fights.
Synergies between Kassadin and Kalista
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Is Kassadin better when played alongside Kalista?
There is no top synergy for Kassadin that will always be his top teammate. However, Kalista is a very typical teammate for Kassadin. By playing on the same side as Kassadin, she raises their win rate by 0.1% to 50.1%. This demonstrates that there is a weak strategic relationship between Kassadin and Kalista that results in them performing stronger together than alone.
Kalista has a lower difficulty than Kassadin. That means you don't need to be careful when arranging Kalista teammates to fight alongside, as they will need a relatively low level of skill to be able to work well with you.
When playing on the same side, Kassadin players should see an overall large increase in your team’s ability to to do a lot of AP damage. When paired, these champions can deal quite a lot of AP type damage.
Conversely, by aligning Kassadin and Kalista together, you probably will not be giving your other teammates enough crowd control. Plan to pick other champs on your team that neutralizes this relative disparity in this pairing's playstyle.
Regardless of the skill of your Kalista ally, you should focus on increasing your income, warding to avoid ambushes, and taking down objectives. If you do this, you should do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Kassadin in order to pair well with Kalista during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League matches, you should continue reading to master some more lessons on this champion pairing. If you use the build and suggestions shown here, you should grow your win rate by a lot.
The top finished items to build first in your Kassadin and Kalista synergy build consist of Seraph's Embrace, Malignance, and Rod of Ages. When Kassadin used at least these three finished items in his build, he performed much better when paired up with Kalista than with most other commonly used builds. In fact, Kassadin had an average winrate of 50.1% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Kalista with this build.
To have the highest probability of crushing your oponents, 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 used for this team composition, this sequence of runes yielded the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 50.1% win rate overall.
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