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.
Get boots early when playing against Syndra, they'll help you avoid many of her spells.
Attack Syndra after she's used Scatter the Weak, it has a long cooldown so she'll be vulnerable.
At max rank Syndra's spells gain bonus effects and change in appearance.
The stats shown on this page underscore several strategic Kai'Sa against Syndra matchup statistics that may help you explain the distinctions between the two. Kai'Sa’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Syndra’s KDA ratio of NaN, indicating that Kai'Sa may be more central to her team's team fighting potential than Syndra..
Kai'Sa often has a similar longest kill spree as her opponent does. Commonly, she receives a similar amount of damage to Syndra. This often reflects differing health capacities; however, it can also hint that the champ with more health has less mobility and thus is unable to flee from further damage when poked or engaged.
Both League champions are great. Both champs have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Kai'Sa usually loses when trying to fight Syndra, with a 48.1% win rate. Therefore, Kai'Sa makes a bad counter for Syndra.
While Kai'Sa does have a lower winrate than Syndra, when on opposite teams, Kai'Sa also has a lower level of difficulty that makes her a less challenging champ to pick up and master. You still need to be cautious when picking Kai'Sa into Syndra.
Furthermore, Kai'Sa has almost no amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Syndra. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when trying to counter champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Kai'Sa vs Syndra matchups, Syndra is the better champ with a lower win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during teamfights.
Kai'Sa is a somewhat poor counter for Syndra. Make sure you focus your play on keeping up your CS and destroying objectives. If you can do that, you should do very well as Kai'Sa against Syndra.
To learn all of the intricacies of Kai'Sa in order to counter Syndra during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and tips displayed here, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Kai'Sa most often racks up a similar amount of CS compared to Syndra. Champs who on average don't earn much CS usualy don't have to have much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are able to scale properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually need many items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the values displayed here to do well.
The ideal items to have in your Kai'Sa versus Syndra build include Bloodthirster, Guinsoo's Rageblade, and Kraken Slayer. When Kai'Sa incorporated at least these three pieces in her build, she performed a lot better when facing Syndra than with most other common builds. In fact, Kai'Sa had an average win rate of 48.1% when countering Syndra with these items in her kit.
To have the greatest likelihood of coming out on top against Syndra as Kai'Sa, you should use the Lethal Tempo, Presence of Mind, Legend: Bloodline, Coup de Grace, Magical Footwear, and Biscuit Delivery runes from the Precision and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the rune combinations players picked for Kai'Sa vs Syndra matchups, this combo of runes yielded the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 48.1% win rate overall.
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