Kassadin with Volibear
How to Synergize Kassadin and Volibear
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Kassadin Volibear Synergy Summary
Best Kassadin vs Volibear Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Kassadin and Volibear
Tips for Playing as Kassadin with Volibear
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.
Kassadin Volibear Synergy Stats
How to Play with Volibear as Kassadin in LoL
The Kassadin Volibear synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Volibear, 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 Volibear. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This negative change shows that Volibear helps Kassadin perform worse in competitive LoL matches. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is only marginal.
When Kassadin is an ally to Volibear, he sees a little drop in his total damage dealt. This difference could signal that Volibear doesn't help cover for him to deal more damage or that his presence on the team also helps increase the match's duration. Similarly, when Kassadin is played together with Volibear on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing synergisticly with Volibear.
Additionally, when Kassadin plays with Volibear on the same team, he on average takes a little less damage than when he plays alone. Taking not as much damage may indicate that Volibear does a decent job of covering Kassadin in teamfights.
Synergies between Kassadin and Volibear
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Is Kassadin better when played alongside Volibear?
There is no top champion pairing for Kassadin that will always be his best ally. Yet, overall, Volibear is a not very good ally for Kassadin. By being on the same side as Kassadin, he decreases their win rate by -2.5% to 47.5%. This clearly indicates that there is a bad synergy between Kassadin and Volibear that results in them performing worse together than without each other.
Volibear has a much lower diffuclty than Kassadin. That means Kassadin players don't need to be cautious when finding Volibear comrades to go into battle on the same side as, as they will have to have a much lower level of skill to be able to work well with you.
Working together, you should expect to see an overall large increase in your team’s capability to deal magic damage. Combined, these champions are able to dish out a surprising amount of magic type damage.
In contrast, by pairing Kassadin and Volibear together, you may not be providing your team a lot of support. Plan to bring other champs on your team that offsets this relative gap in this pairing's kit.
Regardless of the skill of your Volibear teammate, you should focus on increasing your gold income, warding to avoid ambushes, and taking down objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you should do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to truly master Kassadin to pair well with Volibear during both the lane and mid / late game phases of LoL matches, you should keep reading to pick up additional tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and tips shown above, you will increase your win rate significantly.
The ideal finished items to include in your Kassadin and Volibear synergy build consist of Seraph's Embrace, Rabadon's Deathcap, and Malignance. When Kassadin included at least these three great items in his build, he performed much better when fighting alongside Volibear than with most other commonly used item sets. In fact, Kassadin boasted an average win rate of 47.5% when playing alongside Volibear with these items in his kit.
To have the highest chance of beating 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 runes players used for Kassadin and Volibear pairings, this combo of runes resulted in the best win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 47.5% win rate overall.
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