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Kassadin champion portrait

Kassadin Build

Top Tier 2

Patch 26.21 · Silver+ · 1,183 gamesUpdated

50.2%win rate0.1%pick1.0%ban

Who counters Kassadin

  • Yasuo champion portraitYasuo40.0%65 games · 26.20
  • Nasus champion portraitNasus41.8%79 games · 26.20
  • Aatrox champion portraitAatrox37.2%43 games · 26.20
  • Irelia champion portraitIrelia45.6%68 games · 26.20
  • Jax champion portraitJax46.2%78 games · 26.20

How to build Kassadin

Sorcerer's Shoes→Rod of Ages→Malignance→Seraph's Embrace

Sorcerer's Shoes → Rod of Ages → Malignance → Seraph's Embrace

47.8% win rate 19% of games 161 games
RunesInspirationFirst StrikeCash BackTriple TonicCosmic InsightDominationSudden ImpactUltimate Hunter42% of games
SpellsFlashTeleportFlash + Teleport77%
Skills
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Null Sphere
114151618
Nether Blade
29101113
Force Pulse
34578
Riftwalk
61217
StartDoran's HelmHealth PotionDoran's Helm, Health Potion
Full Kassadin build →
50.2%win rate
Patch 26.20: 50.7% over 2,845 gamesPatch 26.21: 50.2% over 1,183 gameswin rate, 26.20 to 26.21
48.8%at Emerald+
0.1%pick rate
1.0%ban rate
Holdingsame as last patch
30.6%under 22 min
56.8%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 20–25m
MASTER+
Kassadin champion portraitT KassadinvsBriar champion portraitT Briar
4 / 4 / 5

Build

Plated Steelcaps|Rod of Ages→Archangel's Staff→Malignance

Spells & runes

FlashTeleport|

Skills

EWQEEREWEWWRWQQQR
Win 35–40m
MASTER+
Kassadin champion portraitT KassadinvsRenekton champion portraitT Renekton
7 / 5 / 6

Build

Plated Steelcaps|Rod of Ages→Manamune→Archangel's Staff→Zhonya's Hourglass

Spells & runes

TeleportFlash|

Skills

EQWEEREWEWWRWQQQRQ
Loss 30–35m
MASTER+
Kassadin champion portraitT KassadinvsPantheon champion portraitT Pantheon
3 / 7 / 3

Build

Plated Steelcaps|Rod of Ages→Archangel's Staff→Malignance

Spells & runes

FlashTeleport|

Skills

WQEEQRQEQEREWQWRW

Runes

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

Most popular 48.1% win rate · 42% of games · 341 games
InspirationFirst StrikeCash BackTriple TonicCosmic Insight
DominationSudden ImpactUltimate Hunter
Shards Adaptive Force · Health Scaling · Health Scaling
Runner up 44.6% win rate · 9% of games · 74 games
DominationElectrocuteSudden ImpactGrisly MementosUltimate Hunter
PrecisionLast StandPresence of Mind
Shards Adaptive Force · Health Scaling · Health Scaling

Summoner spells and early items

What people bring, and which ability they max first.

Summoner spells
pickwin
  • FlashTeleportFlash + Teleport77%50.4%926 games
  • FlashIgniteFlash + Ignite17%49.3%203 games

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

Boots
Sorcerer's Shoes39%Plated Steelcaps19%Mercury's Treads14%No boots11%
Sorcerer's Shoes most often · 54.2% win rate

Kassadin build

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

  1. Seraph's Embrace1st
  2. Rod of Ages2nd
  3. Malignance3rd
7% of games that reach a third item take this path52.6% win rate57 games
Every slot, boots and full build for Kassadin →

Every slot, boots and full builds

Patch 26.21 · 1,192 games with a finished item

Slot by slot

Item 11,192 games
Item 21,094 games
Item 3851 games
Item 4490 games

Boots

Sorcerer's ShoesSorcerer's Shoes
39% · 54.3% win rate
Plated SteelcapsPlated Steelcaps
18% · 50.0% win rate
Mercury's TreadsMercury's Treads
14% · 49.7% win rate
No bootsNo boots
13% · 51.0% win rate
BootsBoots
7% · 27.0% win rate
Ionian Boots of LucidityIonian Boots of Lucidity
5% · 57.8% win rate
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 Kassadin against the enemy champion in the same lane, counting only games where both were actually there. The counters list pulls each matchup toward Kassadin'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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