Hawkshot reveals units in brush. If a team fight is occuring in the jungle it can give you a significant advantage.
Volley arrows are blocked by the first enemy they hit, so keep your distance to avoid having them all absorbed by enemy frontliners.
Try to fire Enchanted Crystal Arrow in the same direction enemies are moving, so it is more likely to hit.
Kai'Sa is very vulnerable to getting outranged by mages and long range carries.
Make sure to place wards in your blind spots so you can see Kai'Sa coming.
Kai'Sa is very good at picking off isolated enemies. Stick together against her.
The stats shown here clarify several strategic Ashe against Kai'Sa matchup stats that can help us explain the distinctions between the pair. For instance, Ashe’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Kai'Sa’s ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Ashe may be more central to her team's team fighting capacity than Kai'Sa..
Ashe typically has a slightly smaller longest killing spree than her foe does. On average, she takes a similar amount of damage to Kai'Sa. This commonly reflects differing health capacities; however, it can also illustrate that the one champion has less mobility and thus is not able to flee from additional damage when poked or engaged.
Both League champs are great champions. Both champs have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Ashe usually wins when playing against Kai'Sa, with a 51.6% win rate. Therefore, Ashe makes a good counter to Kai'Sa.
While Ashe does have a higher win rate than Kai'Sa, when facing one another, Ashe also has a lower difficulty level that makes her a less complex champion to develop with. You still need to be cautious when picking Ashe into Kai'Sa.
Moreover, Ashe has some amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Kai'Sa. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when fighting champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Ashe vs Kai'Sa matchups, Ashe is the better champ with a higher win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during late stage team fights.
Ashe is a decent counter to Kai'Sa. Make sure you focus your gameplay on increasing your gold income and taking out objectives. If you are able to do that, you should do very well as Ashe against Kai'Sa.
To learn all of the intricacies of Ashe in order to counter Kai'Sa during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to learn a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and tips displayed above, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Ashe on average picks up a similar amount of CS relative to Kai'Sa. Champs who on average don't get much CS typically don't need much CS to be valuable teammates, such as sup champs. They are able to scale properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually require several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to surpass the numbers shown on this page to do well.
The ideal items to have in your Ashe versus Kai'Sa build consist of Guardian Angel, Terminus, and Kraken Slayer. When Ashe bought at least these three pieces in her build, she did much better versus Kai'Sa than with most other common builds. In fact, Ashe boasted an average winrate of 51.6% when playing against Kai'Sa with this counter build.
To have the best probability of annihilating Kai'Sa as Ashe, Ashe players should take the Lethal Tempo, Presence of Mind, Legend: Bloodline, Coup de Grace, Magical Footwear, and Approach Velocity runes from the Precision and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations that we analyzed for Ashe vs Kai'Sa matchups, this set of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 51.6% winrate overall.
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