Make sure to buy items that will evolve at least 1 or 2 of your spells.
Work with your teammates to set up your Ultimate and optimize damage with your passive.
Try to catch enemy carries alone to burst them with Icathian Rain.
Lissandra's Ring of Frost has a long cooldown at early ranks; engage her while it's on cooldown.
Lissandra's Ice Shard only slows the first unit it hits. Approach Lissandra from behind your team's minions to avoid being slowed.
The best way to stop Lissandra from moving using her Glacial Path is to immobilize her before she reactivates it.
The stat comparisons shown on this page highlight several critical Kai'Sa versus Lissandra counter statistics that can help you appreciate the distinctions between this set of champs. For instance, Kai'Sa’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Lissandra’s ratio of NaN, showing that Kai'Sa may be more central to her team's team fighting potential than Lissandra..
Kai'Sa normally has a slightly larger longest killing spree than her counter does. On average, she takes a similar amount of damage to Lissandra. This is usually reflective of differing health capacities, yet it can also indicate that the champion with increased HP has less agility and thus is unable to escape further harm when engaged or poked.
Both League champs are great champions. Both champs have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Kai'Sa usually loses when facing off against Lissandra, with a 45.4% win rate. As a result, Kai'Sa makes a poor counter to Lissandra.
While Kai'Sa does have a much lower winrate compared to Lissandra, when on opposite teams, Kai'Sa also has a greater difficulty level that makes her a more complex champion to learn and master. You should expect to face a difficult match when picking Kai'Sa into Lissandra.
Furthermore, Kai'Sa also has almost no amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Lissandra. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when trying to counter champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion in League of Legends, in Kai'Sa vs Lissandra matchups, Lissandra is the better champ with a much lower win rate, similar champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during late stage team fights.
Kai'Sa is a terribly counter for Lissandra. Make sure you focus your strategy on maximizing your gold and cs and taking out objectives. If you do that, you should hold your own as Kai'Sa against Lissandra.
To learn all of the intricacies of Kai'Sa to counter Lissandra 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 listen to the build and stats presented here, you should grow your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Kai'Sa on average accumulates a similar amount of CS compared to Lissandra. Champs who typically don't acquire many minion kills typically don't need much CS to be effective, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are able to scale well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically have to have a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the numbers displayed on this page to do well.
The ideal items to prioritize in your Kai'Sa versus Lissandra build include Terminus, Kraken Slayer, and Navori Quickblades. When Kai'Sa combined at least these three pieces in her build, she performed a lot better countering Lissandra than with many other common counter builds. In fact, Kai'Sa had an average winrate of 45.4% when playing against Lissandra with these items in her kit.
To have the best likelihood of crushing Lissandra as Kai'Sa, you should take the Lethal Tempo, Presence of Mind, Legend: Bloodline, Coup de Grace, Biscuit Delivery, and Magical Footwear runes from the Precision and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations that we analyzed for Kai'Sa vs Lissandra counter picks, this set of runes resulted in the best win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 45.4% win rate overall.
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