Kai'Sa Build Guide : [14.8] Rank 1 Kai'sa World In-Depth Build Guide

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very nice guide

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If you're here Elosanta

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Such a cool guide. Nice job! <3

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Thanks for the guide!

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Hi!
I have a question. Would Legend: Alacrity work on the rune set? I had been using that previously due to the atk speed it grants. I wanted to hear your thoughts on it. Thank you.

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Is a mixed build not optimal on Kai'sa?

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Great guide, i learned a lot about new builds for kaisa, with the changes i wasnt sure what to build, manamune isnt as viable, and the builds shifted into a more ad version rather than ap, good guide!

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Nice guide you did there.
Since release, I must say I personaly HATE taking on and I rather just go straight to and to get more damage.

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Best actual guide!

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Just had a thought, wouldn't Celerity be more effective on Kai'Sa than Nimbus Cloak? After all, you might be using her E very often throughout a match, so the bonus MS wouldn't hurt and that 1% bonus to total MS should stack up well and pretty quick too.

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If you ever add a Synergy section, I definitely think you can put Zilean on the strong side. Kai'Sa works so well with him because of how he can slow and stun enemies, along with speed up and revive her. I had a feeling this pairing would work well, so when someone decided to play Kai'Sa I specifically chose Zilean to test my theory.
Boosting Kai'Sa helps her chase and finish enemies or escape, and slowing enemies and stunning them just leaves them at her mercy, she can easily hit her passive against people when teamed with Zilean. If Zil gets a bomb on someone who manages to survive Kai's assault, they're probably going to die, so it helps having kills more or less ensured. There was a point when she got jumped and I got to her in time to use my ult on her, so she came back and got a double kill. She only died once and that was before I had my ult.
In this game, this Kai'Sa was the only person on either team with more than 10 kills (all of which I got assists on), dealt almost 25k total damage to champions (more than double than anyone else), basically she had the highest damage related stats (and the most gold) in the game out of everyone! This ended in just under 30 minutes, I don't know much about stat stuff, but if you're high above everyone else, that seems pretty good to me.
I know I might be basing a lot off of one match, but I honestly think a skilled Zilean playing support for a skilled Kai'Sa have the potential to just steam roll their competition.

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If you ever add a Synergy section, I definitely think you can put Zilean on the strong side. Kai'Sa works so well with him because of how he can slow and stun enemies, along with speed up and revive her. I had a feeling this pairing would work well, so when someone decided to play Kai'Sa I specifically chose Zilean to test my theory.
Boosting Kai'Sa helps her chase and finish enemies or escape, and slowing enemies and stunning them just leaves them at her mercy, she can easily hit her passive against people when teamed with Zilean. If Zil gets a bomb on someone who manages to survive Kai's assault, they're probably going to die, so it helps having kills more or less ensured. There was a point when she got jumped and I got to her in time to use my ult on her, so she came back and got a double kill. She only died once and that was before I had my ult.
In this game, this Kai'Sa was the only person on either team with more than 10 kills (all of which I got assists on), dealt almost 25k total damage to champions (more than double than anyone else), basically she had the highest damage related stats (and the most gold) in the game out of everyone! This ended in just under 30 minutes, I don't know much about stat stuff, but if you're high above everyone else, that seems pretty good to me.
I know I might be basing a lot off of one match, but I honestly think a skilled Zilean playing support for a skilled Kai'Sa have the potential to just steam roll their competition.

Zilean is a weird champion, it can be extremely good in some games and super bad in others, you can't really pick him in every game which makes him kinda situational, I feel like he is really strong with Kai'sa though, you're right. Thanks for the suggestion boss!

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I feel I should also realize that there's probably a big gap between competitive LoL and casual LoL, cause I've only ever played maybe 4 games in ranked and realized it's not for me, so very often these ideas and suggestions can be really good from this casual perspective. For one, Zilean is maybe the champ I have the most S grades with, but those are all casual games. That being said, I would like to say that I feel it's less that Zilean is situational but that whoever's playing them needs to be kind of clutch with him. Landing his second bomb and timing his Ult can be really difficult, but when you do those things right, your team is practically free to just stomp on your enemies. I suppose it is true for any support and adc combo, if either of them suck it's likely to bring the other down severely, cause you can only carry someone up so much.
Thank you for the feedback, I really appreciate it.

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Thoughts on the 10:5 patch? feels like the change in scaling is messing the build up?

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Thoughts on the 10:5 patch? feels like the change in scaling is messing the build up?

Yup true, going manamune is way better now, I'll update the build thanks for noticing.

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Isn’t it better to do IE start for AD since you’ll be able to get 100% Crit instead of Manamune which only gives you 75% Crit at most? Also Sorcery Secondary for the bonus damage from G storm and escape from nimbus?

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Isn’t it better to do IE start for AD since you’ll be able to get 100% Crit instead of Manamune which only gives you 75% Crit at most? Also Sorcery Secondary for the bonus damage from G storm and escape from nimbus?

I feel like Kaisa benefits more from the Manamune build at the moment than the IE standard crit build but you can definitely try it out it's not bad, and for the runes, thanks for spotting it, nimbus cloak + gathering storm or absolute focus is better to take than boots and biscuits, I have edited it

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How would you know what zeal item you should build after Rageblade? Is there key things to know what Zeal item to build?

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How would you know what zeal item you should build after Rageblade? Is there key things to know what Zeal item to build?

Genuinely you'd want to go for the AP build since it is just pure higher raw damage, but if you have heavy AP obviously you'd want to go for a zeal item. Phantom dancer is for its shield, against assassins or just fed champions who kill you fast, rapidfire cannon is for poke and buy it if you can slightly extend to get one auto attack on the enemy carries, its really big damage mid game and statikk shiv is for any other case / if you need waveclear, i usually go statikk shiv when up against tanks or if i know teamfights are gonna last for more than 5 seconds.

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What would the purpose of hurricane then?

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What would the purpose of hurricane then?

Extremely situational, usually to play against 2 or more tanks, or for waveclear aswell if statikk doesnt fit