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.
Trundle is very powerful at location-based combat. Try to draw him off of his Frozen Domain.
Make sure to get out of his Pillar of Ice as quickly as possible, as it significantly slows you down.
The stats shown on this page underscore several important Kai'Sa versus Trundle matchup statistics that may help us distinguish the differences and similarities between the two. For instance, Kai'Sa’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Trundle’s KDA ratio of NaN, showing that Kai'Sa may be more central to her team's team fighting capacity than Trundle..
Kai'Sa typically has a slightly larger longest killing spree than her matchup does. On average, she takes less damage than Trundle. This is usually reflective of different amounts of tankyness, yet it can also indicate that the champ with increased HP has less mobility and thus is not able to escape additional damage when poked or engaged.
Both League of Legends champions are great. Both champs have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Kai'Sa usually loses when playing against Trundle, with a 44.1% win rate. Thus, Kai'Sa makes a bad counter for Trundle.
While Kai'Sa does have a much lower win rate than Trundle, when on opposite teams, Kai'Sa also has a greater learning curve that makes her a more difficult champion to pick up and master. You may get destroyed when picking Kai'Sa into Trundle.
Moreover, Kai'Sa also has only a small amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Trundle. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when trying to counter champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Kai'Sa vs Trundle matchups, Trundle is the better champion with a much lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during team fights.
Kai'Sa is a terribly counter for Trundle. Focus your play on increasing your gold income and destroying objectives. If you do that, you should hold your own as Kai'Sa against Trundle.
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Kai'Sa in order to counter Trundle during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you mind the build and suggestions presented above, you should increase your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Kai'Sa most often gets a similar amount of CS relative to Trundle. Champions who on average don't earn much CS often don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as sup champs. They are capable of scaling well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, often require many items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the numbers shown here to do well.
The most crucial items to focus on in your Kai'Sa versus Trundle build include Guardian Angel, Terminus, and Kraken Slayer. When Kai'Sa used at least these three pieces in her build, she did a lot better countering Trundle than with most other typical counter builds. In fact, Kai'Sa had an average winrate of 44.1% when playing against Trundle with this counter build.
To have the best probability of annihilating Trundle as Kai'Sa, you should equip 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 used for Kai'Sa vs Trundle counters, this mixture of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 44.1% winrate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to beat Trundle as Kai'Sa are given for all ranked divisions combined. To narrow the statistics and builds to a particular player tier, you can use the selection menu earlier on the page.