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Kai'Sa champion portrait

Kai'Sa Build

Mid Tier 3

Patch 26.21 · Silver+ · 3,346 gamesUpdated

44.4%win rate0.2%pick3.8%ban

Who counters Kai'Sa

How to build Kai'Sa

Gunmetal Greaves→Statikk Shiv→Guinsoo's Rageblade→Nashor's Tooth

Gunmetal Greaves → Statikk Shiv → Guinsoo's Rageblade → Nashor's Tooth

52.8% win rate 9% of games 218 games
RunesPrecisionLethal TempoPresence of MindLegend: BloodlineCoup de GraceInspirationBiscuit DeliveryMagical Footwear27% of games
SpellsFlashBarrierFlash + Barrier41%
Skills
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Icathian Rain
14578
Void Seeker
29101112
Supercharge
314151617
Killer Instinct
613
StartDoran's BowHealth PotionHealth PotionDoran's Bow, Health Potion, Health Potion
Full Kai'Sa build →
44.4%win rate
Patch 26.20: 45.9% over 8,539 gamesPatch 26.21: 44.4% over 3,346 gameswin rate, 26.20 to 26.21
42.8%at Emerald+
0.2%pick rate
3.8%ban rate
Holdingsame as last patch
39.1%under 22 min
47.4%over 32 min

Want the written version? Our Counter Series breaks down how to actually play against champions like this, not just who wins on paper.

Recent games

Taken from as high up the ladder as this pick gets played. All 10 games from Master and above.

Loss 25–30m
MASTER+
Kai'Sa champion portraitM Kai'SavsSylas champion portraitM Sylas
9 / 7 / 5

Build

Spellslinger's Shoes|Manamune→Luden's Echo→Rabadon's Deathcap

Spells & runes

IgniteFlash|

Skills

QWEQQRQWQQWRWWWEE
Win 35–40m
MASTER+
Kai'Sa champion portraitM Kai'SavsViktor champion portraitM Viktor
18 / 9 / 5

Build

Spellslinger's Shoes|Manamune→Luden's Echo→Rabadon's Deathcap→Shadowflame

Spells & runes

TeleportFlash|

Skills

QWEQQRQWQQWRWWWEER
Win 25–30m
MASTER+
Kai'Sa champion portraitM Kai'SavsZed champion portraitM Zed
16 / 5 / 2

Build

Spellslinger's Shoes|Manamune→Luden's Echo→Rabadon's Deathcap

Spells & runes

ExhaustFlash|

Skills

QWEQQRQWQQWRWWWEER

Runes

The full page most players run, not just the keystone.

Most popular 45.5% win rate · 27% of games · 606 games
PrecisionLethal TempoPresence of MindLegend: BloodlineCoup de Grace
InspirationBiscuit DeliveryMagical Footwear
Shards Attack Speed · Adaptive Force · Health Scaling
Runner up 42.6% win rate · 10% of games · 230 games
PrecisionPress the AttackPresence of MindLegend: BloodlineCoup de Grace
DominationTaste of BloodTreasure Hunter
Shards Attack Speed · Adaptive Force · Health Scaling

Summoner spells and early items

What people bring, and which ability they max first.

Summoner spells
pickwin
  • FlashBarrierFlash + Barrier41%44.9%1,416 games
  • FlashTeleportFlash + Teleport26%42.1%913 games

Boots and the other slot items that do not count as finished items in the full build below.

Boots
Gunmetal Greaves48%Spellslinger's Shoes35%Crimson Lucidity6%
Gunmetal Greaves most often · 45.2% win rate

Kai'Sa build

The items players finish, in the order they end up in the inventory.

  1. Muramana1st
  2. Luden's Echo2nd
  3. Shadowflame3rd
5% of games that reach a third item take this path45.8% win rate120 games
Every slot, boots and full build for Kai'Sa →

Every slot, boots and full builds

Patch 26.21 · 3,399 games with a finished item

Slot by slot

Item 13,399 games

Boots

Gunmetal GreavesGunmetal Greaves
47% · 45.3% win rate
Spellslinger's ShoesSpellslinger's Shoes
34% · 45.0% win rate
Crimson LucidityCrimson Lucidity
5% · 45.9% win rate
Immortal PathImmortal Path
4% · 51.9% win rate
BootsBoots
3% · 23.3% win rate
Slightly Magical FootwearSlightly Magical Footwear
2% · 28.8% win rate

Most common full builds

  1. Muramana›Luden's Echo+Spellslinger's Shoes2% of games · 27.8% win rate · 72 games
  2. Kraken Slayer›Guinsoo's Rageblade+Gunmetal Greaves2% of games · 30.6% win rate · 72 games
  3. Muramana›Luden's Echo›Shadowflame+Spellslinger's Shoes2% of games · 42.3% win rate · 71 games
  4. Kraken Slayer+Gunmetal Greaves2% of games · 27.5% win rate · 51 games
  5. Statikk Shiv+Gunmetal Greaves1% of games · 33.3% win rate · 45 games
Where these numbers come from

We read finished ranked solo queue games directly from Riot and keep a running tally. Nothing is copied from another site.

Matchups compare Kai'Sa against the enemy champion in the same lane, counting only games where both were actually there. The counters list pulls each matchup toward Kai'Sa's own win rate by 180 games' worth of it, then keeps the ones still under 50%. A matchup seen thirty times barely moves off the champion's average, and one seen a thousand times keeps close to its own number.

Every number here is followed by the games behind it, because that's what tells you how much to trust it. A win rate over a few hundred games is worth reading. The same number over thirty is mostly luck.

Recent games show what was built and who won. They never show who played. Rank is grouped (Master and up is one band), game length is rounded to five minutes, and there's no region or date on a card.

Every ranked game we read this patch adds its finished items here, boots aside. Items are listed in the order they sit in the inventory, which isn't always the order they were bought: a finished item takes the slot its first part was in.

Compare a win rate only with the other picks in its own slot. A fifth item mostly shows up in long games, and those skew toward the team that was already ahead, so late slots run hot whatever sits in them. A row needs 30 games before it shows up at all.

Built from real ranked games this patch. We keep the running totals, never the games themselves.

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