Yasuo with Kai'Sa
How to Synergize Yasuo and Kai'Sa
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Yasuo Kai'Sa Synergy Summary
Best Yasuo vs Kai'Sa Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Yasuo and Kai'Sa
Tips for Playing as Yasuo with Kai'Sa
Last Breath can be cast on any target that is knocked Airborne, even by one of your allies.
Dash through a minion to have Sweeping Blade available to chase your opponent should they flee; Dash directly to your opponent to preserve a minion as your escape route.
At level 18, Yasuo's Steel Tempest reaches its Attack Speed cap with 55% Attack Speed from items.
Advice to Understand How Kai'Sa Will Play
Make sure to buy items that will evolve at least 1 or 2 of your spells.
Work with your teammates to set up your Ultimate and optimize damage with your passive.
Try to catch enemy carries alone to burst them with Icathian Rain.
Yasuo Kai'Sa Synergy Stats
How to Play with Kai'Sa as Yasuo in LoL
The Yasuo Kai'Sa synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Kai'Sa, compared to his overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how his gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Yasuo sees a large worsening in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Kai'Sa. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This negative change shows that Kai'Sa helps Yasuo perform poorer in ranked League games. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Yasuo plays on the same team as Kai'Sa, he sees a little drop in his complete damage output. This could demonstrate that Kai'Sa doesn't help protection for him to deal more damage or that her support also helps increase the game's duration. Similarly, when Yasuo is played together with Kai'Sa 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 with Kai'Sa.
Moreover, when Yasuo plays with Kai'Sa on the same team, he often takes a little more damage than when he fights alone. Taking more damage could mean that Kai'Sa does a poor job of covering Yasuo during teamfights.
Synergies between Yasuo and Kai'Sa
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Is Yasuo better when played alongside Kai'Sa?
There is no top companion for Yasuo that will always be his top ally. However, overall, Kai'Sa is a very bad teammate for Yasuo. By being on the same side as Yasuo, she decreases their win rate by -3.6% to 47.0%. This shows that there is an easy to overcome and exploit bond between Yasuo and Kai'Sa that results in them performing not as well together than without each other.
Kai'Sa has a much lower diffuclty than Yasuo. That means you don't need to be very careful when enlisting Kai'Sa teammates to go into battle on the same side as, as they will have to have a much lower level of skill to work well with you.
When playing alongside, you will likely see an overall large increase in your team’s capability to dish out massive AD. Together, these two can tear through the other team with a lot of physcial damage.
In contrast, by aligning Yasuo and Kai'Sa together, you probably will not be giving your other teammates a lot of utility. Plan to have other champions on your team that helps cover this disparity in this pairing's abilities.
Regardless of the skill of your Kai'Sa ally, you need to focus on maximizing your income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and taking down objectives. If you do this, you will do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To learn all of the intricacies of Yasuo in order to synergize with Kai'Sa during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to gather a few extra lessons on this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and stats presented above, you will grow your win rate by a lot.
The top finished items to have in your Yasuo and Kai'Sa synergy build include Guardian Angel, Infinity Edge, and Immortal Shieldbow. When Yasuo incorporated at least these three pieces in his build, he performed much better when paired up with Kai'Sa than with many other typical item sets. In fact, Yasuo had an average win rate of 47.0% when playing alongside Kai'Sa with these items in his kit.
To have the best probability of vanquishing your oponents, you should take the Lethal Tempo, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Last Stand, Unflinching, and Second Wind runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations that we analyzed for this champion pairing, this composite of runes yielded the best win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 47.0% win rate overall.
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