I am cinnamintRoll and I currently have Mastery 7 on
Kai'Sa
and several other ADC's. I enjoy theorycrafting and optimizing builds. And so, I present this guide to you. Find your playstyle, and have your teammates ping your build a little when you're feeding. And if
they're pissed, send them this guide and tell them to talk to me (just kidding).
Let's talk about
Kai'Sa
, The Daughter of the Void
Kai'Sa
is considered a hyper carry ADC. With her tools, she can handle herself similarly like
Vayne
on the late game. She has a really weak early game, however-- once she starts evolving her abilities, she can give you the most stylish pentakills. I'd also like to point out that she, like another void champion,
Kha'Zix
.
Kai'Sa
excels against isolated targets through her Q missiles.
Kai'Sa
, with her AP scalings and W evolve-- allowed her to be flexible when it comes to builds. If you want to play like a traditional ADC, go for it. You enjoy seeing an enemy get half-health from afar? There's a build for that. And if you're feeling extra spicy, there's the
"Invisibuild" (Yes, very creative name. Thank you.) which is a lethality-crit build revolving around Duskblade invisibility and your Evolved E Invisibility. You'd resemble
Kha'Zix
in a way.
Items
Stormrazor Hybrid
On-hit Hybrid
Standard Crit
AP Burst
Invisibuild (Experimental)
Ability Order
Standard
AP Build
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Rune Pages
Standard
Vs. Tanks
Standard
Vs. Tanks
Kai'sa utilizes Hail of Blades via her [Passive]
Second Skin
, allowing her to quickly land three stacks, finishing it with [W]
Void Seeker
would deal a massive amount of damage. a very useful early game rune, considering Kai'sa has one of the weakest early games amongst ADC's.
Taste of Blood
slightly helps Kai'sa survive lane.
Non-negotiable. Kai'sa has no way of utilizing the other two alternatives,
Sudden Impact
and
Cheap Shot
.
Eyeball Collection
provides raw stats that stacks for every champion taken down.
Non-negotiable.
Zombie Ward
are for champions that run
Oracle Lens
. ADC's typically run
Stealth Ward
and
Farsight Alteration
because they value vision and cannot face-check. Whilst
Ghost Poro
are mainly for supports, because they have access to more wards. Otherwise, it will be very slow to stack.
Treasure Hunter
provides more omnivamp for Kai'sa for every champion taken down. This can help Kai'sa sustain. This is overall the most useful rune in this slot.
Ultimate Hunter
is a good alternative for this slot, Kai'sa's [R]
Killer Instinct
has a fairly long cooldown. This can provide more access to [R]
Killer Instinct
's mobility and survivability via the shield.
Magical Footwear
allows
Kai'Sa
to reach her powerspike earlier. Not needing to spend 300G on Boots can help you reach her Evolves earlier which are crucial for her gameplay.
Biscuit Delivery
provides early game sustain for
Kai'Sa
, allowing her to back on optimal times. This rune is especially useful against Poke Champions.
Future's Market
is also a great alternative if you don't need the extra sustain. In lanes where you and your opponent just want to farm. This can help you have access to Items and Evolves much faster so long as you're using the rune correctly.
Lethal Tempo is a sub-optimal alternative for
Kai'Sa
due to her short range. However, in situations wherein there are many problematic tanks and/or you just want to give up lane and farm-- Lethal Tempo is a great rune. It provides lots of Attack Speed that can provide more DPS and let you proc your passive
Second Skin
more often.
This Keystone is also powerful alongside enchanters like
Lulu
.
Presence of Mind
helps
Kai'Sa
's mana sustain in all stages of the game. She doesn't build much mana
Legend: Bloodline
is practically useless early game, but provides you enough lifesteal to sustain mid to late game, in fights and while just farming. Considering you are already running
Lethal Tempo
, you don't really need the extra attack speed from it.
ADC's usually have a lower health pool than others and don't have much choice in building items with HP. Even mages get HP from most legendary items. Even with just a Shadowflame, you can utilize
Cut Down
against them already. Not to mention, this rune gives even more value against Bruisers and Tanks up to 15% more damage.
Magical Footwear
allows
Kai'Sa
to reach her powerspike earlier. Not needing to spend 300G on Boots can help you reach her Evolves earlier which are crucial for her gameplay.
Future's Market
is also a great alternative if you don't need the extra sustain. In lanes where you and your opponent just want to farm. This can help you have access to Items and Evolves much faster so long as you're using the rune correctly.
Biscuit Delivery
provides early game sustain for
Kai'Sa
, allowing her to back on optimal times. This rune is especially useful against Poke Champions.
Future's Market
is also a great alternative if you don't need the extra sustain. In lanes where you and your opponent just want to farm. This can help you have access to Items and Evolves much faster so long as you're using the rune correctly.
Summoner Spells
Choices
It's basically standard to have
Flash
in every game. It is valuable as a tool to make plays, chase down, kite away, escape, ruin a gank, etc...
Heal
is great for 2v2's. Movement speed, escaping, and as well as saving yourself and your ally.
A really good summoner spell that reduces the movement speed and damage dealt by an enemy champion. Good against burst champions.
Exhaust
can easily be used by
Kai'Sa
because of her short range.
Item Breakdown
AD Mythics
AP Mythics
Boots
Situationals
AD Core
AP Core
Kraken Slayer is a good option for Kai’sa as she likes to auto-attack a
lot, especially with an on-hit build. The stats also allow her to move towards
her Evolves.
Galeforce is another good option for Kai’sa that allows her to have
extra mobility and burst. This is especially good against skill-shot heavy comps.
Use the Galeforce dash away from a Leona Ultimate, and you saved yourself from
death. The stats also allow her to move towards her Evolves.
Crown of the Shattered Queen is another
significantly cheap item for Kai’sa that lets her reach powerspikes
quickly even with less access to gold. It is also cost-efficient at 119.46%
Gold Efficiency.
This is a great item to survive bursts. If you feel like that 3/0 enemy
Zed will just consistently murder you into a grey screen, then this item is for
you! It might not give additional burst like Luden’s Tempest. But more
often than not, it's more useful to survive in fights.
This also more often than not, eliminates the need to buy a defensive Legendary
like Zhonya’s Hourglass and Banshee’s Veil. So you can buy other aggressive
items.
Luden’s Echo is another mythic option for AP Kai’sa
which provides her with even more burst. You can buy this when you don’t really
need the survivability from Crown of The Shattered Queen or when you’re
snowballing.
You do not have any other option besides Berserker’s Greaves as this item
is extremely crucial for evolving Kai’sa’s E. Buying Sorcerer’s Shoes for extra
magic penetration for the AP Build cannot match the value of the E evolve that allows you to be constantly be invisible in the middle of fights.
Mortal Reminder is Kai’sa’s best option for a
Grievous Wounds item. As it provides her with Attack Damage, Attack Speed, and
Crit. The Passive also works better for her than Chempunk Chainsword’s
Zhonya’s Hourglass is a good defensive option especially
against abilities with delayed damage like Zed’s R and Fizz’s R. The stats are
not exactly a waste since Kai’sa scales with Ability Power and Ability Haste.
And the Armor could be useful against AD Champions.
Guardian Angel can be used for extra survivability especially when
against heavy AD comps because of the armor it provides and the Revive Passive
is especially helpful in the later stages of the game.
Wit’s End is a good legendary that provides good
stats. The Attack Damage, Attack Speed, and On-hit passive are no doubt, very
useful for Kai’sa. This is especially useful against AP-heavy comps or even if
there’s just that one AP assassin that have been a great threat to your safety.
Lord Dominik’s Regards, a good Armor Penetration item especially in the
late game.
Serylda’s Grudge is another good Armor Penetration item for Kai’sa if
you’re not building Crit, since she benefits well from Ability Haste, and can
help her kite with the slow passive.
Runaan’s Hurricane has good synergy with Kai’sa, her
on-hit passive applies to all targets hit by the bolts. However, due to having
fairly short range for an ADC, she cannot utilize it well unless she’s against
multiple melee champions.
Phantom Dancer is a good Zeal item that enchances her dueling
potential. It is also very cost-efficient when the passive is active.
Serpent’s Fang is extremely useful against comps with problematic shielding. Although it only reduces shield by 35% for Ranged champions instead of 50%, it is extremely useful as you can easily apply its passive to more than one target.
Guinsoo’s Rageblade is a good option when building
on-hit, it can allow you to shred tanks even faster paired with Kraken Slayer.
Infinity Edge is a standard crit item. You should
definitely build it when opting for a crit-oriented build. It provides lots of
AD and enchances your Critical Strike Damage.
A good item to buy when you are being focused with crowd control and
strong engage abilities like Frozen Tomb, Enchanted Crystal Arrow, and Rocket Grab. It is also effective against AP champions as it provides Magic Resist.
Rabadon’s Deathcap is essential for any champion with ability power
ratios who wants to deal more magic damage. that will carry into late game.
Mercurial Scimitar, can be purchased when being focused by heavy CC.
Stormrazor is being used as a stat-stick item for its efficiency that will aid Kai’sa’s evolution. The Collector is generally a bad item because flat lethality does not scale well into the late game, and its passive is somewhat useless…
Nashor’s Tooth is a good item for Kai’sa as it can simultaneously
allow her to evolve her E and W because of its stats.
Wit’s End is overall a good item for Kai’sa’s on-hit build. The Attack Damage, Attack Speed, and On-hit passive are no doubt, very useful for Kai’sa. And allows her to evolve her Q and W once completed.
Muramana gives a good amount of AD that also synergizes well with an AP
Mythic that provides mana. More mana = More AD. It allows Kai’sa to get her Q evolve even when building AP Items.
Nashor’s Tooth is a good item for Kai’sa as it can simultaneously allow her to evolve her E and W because of its stats.
That’s all! Thank you for reading! Have a great day and I hope I taught you some valuable knowledge that can help you win more games! :D
Kai'Sa
Vayne
Kha'Zix
