Cleavers are a powerful tool for killing neutral monsters. Instead of returning to base, farm neutral monsters until your ultimate can heal you.
A well-timed Sadism can bait enemy champions into attacking you even when they lack the damage to finish you.
Spirit Visage will increase the healing done by your ultimate and lower cooldowns on all of your abilities.
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 highlight several vital Dr. Mundo against Kassadin matchup statistics that can help us realize the differences between the two. As an example, Dr. Mundo’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Kassadin’s ratio of NaN, showing that Dr. Mundo may be more central to his team's team fighting capability than Kassadin..
Dr. Mundo typically has a slightly smaller longest kill spree than his matchup does. Commonly, he receives more damage than Kassadin. This is usually reflective of different amounts of tankyness, but it can also imply that the champion with higher HP has less mobility and thus is unable to flee from additional damage when poked or engaged.
Both League of Legends champs are great champions. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Dr. Mundo usually fairs equally well when taking on Kassadin, with a 49.0% win rate. Thus, Dr. Mundo makes an ok counter to Kassadin.
While Dr. Mundo does have a lower winrate than Kassadin, when they face off with one another, Dr. Mundo also has a lower difficulty level that makes him a less time consuming champion to develop with. You still need to be cautious when picking Dr. Mundo into Kassadin.
Moreover, Dr. Mundo also has only a small amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Kassadin. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when facing champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion overall in League of Legends, in Dr. Mundo vs Kassadin matchups, Kassadin is the better champion with a similar win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during team fights.
Dr. Mundo is a somewhat poor counter to Kassadin. You will do well by focussing your tactics on keeping up your gold income and clearing objectives. If you are able to do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Dr. Mundo against Kassadin.
If you would like to truly master Dr. Mundo in order to counter Kassadin during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to pick up a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and stats presented above, you will increase your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Dr. Mundo often accumulates a similar amount of CS compared to Kassadin. Champs who typically don't acquire many minion kills typically don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as supports. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, often need a lot of items to be effective. In either situation, try to surpass the values shown on this page to do well.
The top items to have in your Dr. Mundo versus Kassadin build consist of Spirit Visage, Sunfire Aegis, and Heartsteel. When Dr. Mundo included at least these three pieces in his build, he performed a lot better vs. Kassadin than with most other common counter builds. In fact, Dr. Mundo boasted an average win rate of 49.0% when countering Kassadin with these items in his kit.
To have the best chance of coming out on top against Kassadin as Dr. Mundo, Dr. Mundo players should equip the Grasp of the Undying, Demolish, Second Wind, Overgrowth, Approach Velocity, and Magical Footwear runes from the Resolve and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the rune combinations players picked for Dr. Mundo vs Kassadin battles, this order of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 49.0% winrate overall.
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