Lead your enemy when targeting with Noxious Blast to ensure the hit.
Use Twin Fang on poisoned stationary targets like monsters and units stunned by her Petrifying Gaze for maximum damage.
It takes 6 spell casts for Kassadin's slow, Force Pulse, to become castable. If he levels up that ability, judiciously use your own skills while laning against him.
Kassadin deals mostly magic damage. If he's doing well consider buying magic resist items like Mercury's Treads and Banshee's Veil.
Each time Kassadin consecutively uses Riftwalk, he pays more and more mana. Keep this in mind as you chase him.
The stats shown here emphasize several important Cassiopeia against Kassadin matchup statistics that may help you figure out the differences between the two. As an example, Cassiopeia’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Kassadin’s KDA ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Cassiopeia may be more central to her team's team fighting potential than Kassadin..
Cassiopeia typically has a similar longest killing spree as her foe does. On average, she takes a similar amount of damage to Kassadin. This commonly reflects different amounts of tankyness; however, it can also imply that the champ with increased health has less mobility and thus is not able to kite away from further harm when poked or engaged.
Both LoL champions are great. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Cassiopeia usually loses when facing off against Kassadin, with a 47.7% win rate. As a result, Cassiopeia makes a bad counter to Kassadin.
While Cassiopeia does have a lower winrate than Kassadin, when on opposite teams, Cassiopeia also has a greater difficulty level that makes her a more difficult champion to pick up and master. You may get destroyed when picking Cassiopeia into Kassadinas her relative depth means that you may not be able to reach her full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Furthermore, Cassiopeia also has a good amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Kassadin. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when fighting champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion in League of Legends, in Cassiopeia vs Kassadin matchups, Kassadin is the better champ with a lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during team fights.
Cassiopeia is a terribly counter to Kassadin. Focus your play on keeping up your CS and taking out objectives. If you do that, you should do very well as Cassiopeia against Kassadin.
To truly master Cassiopeia to counter Kassadin during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to gather a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and stats shown above, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Cassiopeia often racks up a similar amount of CS as Kassadin. Champions who on average don't take much CS typically don't require much CS to be effective, such as support champions. They are capable of scaling properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, often require a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to exceed the numbers displayed here to do well.
The most crucial items to prioritize in your Cassiopeia versus Kassadin build include Seraph's Embrace, Rylai's Crystal Scepter, and Liandry's Torment. When Cassiopeia combined at least these three items in her build, she did much better when facing Kassadin than with most other typical counter builds. In fact, Cassiopeia had an average winrate of 47.7% battling Kassadin with these items in her kit.
To have the highest chance of vanquishing Kassadin as Cassiopeia, Cassiopeia players should equip the Conqueror, Presence of Mind, Legend: Tenacity, Last Stand, Manaflow Band, and Transcendence runes from the Precision and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the rune builds that we analyzed for Cassiopeia vs Kassadin fights, this combination of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 47.7% winrate overall.
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