Kassadin's ultimate has many uses and is on a shorter cooldown than most, use it often.
Kassadin has multiple item paths; he can go caster via Mana and Ability Power or anti-caster with Cooldown Reduction and Magic Resist.
Try to get the Ancient Golem buff to counteract Riftwalk's increasing Mana cost.
Ashe has very few defensive options, and she's a good target to gank.
Be wary of moving around the map alone if Ashe has not recently cast her Enchanted Crystal Arrow.
The stats shown here show some valuable Kassadin versus Ashe matchup stats that may help us figure out the distinctions between this pair of champs. As an example, Kassadin’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Ashe’s KDA ratio of NaN, highlighting that Kassadin may be more central to his team's team fighting effectiveness than Ashe..
Kassadin usually has a slightly larger longest killing spree than his foe does. Commonly, he takes more damage than Ashe. This is usually reflective of different amounts of tankyness, but it can also indicate that the champion with higher HP has less mobility and thus is not able to kite away from additional damage when poked or engaged.
Both League of Legends champions are great. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Kassadin usually wins when trying to fight Ashe, with a 51.8% win rate. Thus, Kassadin makes a good counter to Ashe.
While Kassadin does have a higher win rate than Ashe, when they face off with one another, Kassadin also has a much greater learning curve that makes him a more time consuming champ to learn and master. You should be careful when picking Kassadin into Asheas his relative depth means that you may not be able to unleash his full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Furthermore, Kassadin also has some amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Ashe. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when facing champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion overall in League of Legends, in Kassadin vs Ashe matchups, Kassadin is the better champ with a higher win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during team fights.
Kassadin is a decent counter for Ashe. You will do well by focussing your gameplay on keeping up your gold and cs and destroying objectives. If you are able to do that, you should hold your own as Kassadin against Ashe.
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Kassadin to counter Ashe during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to learn a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and tips shown here, you should grow your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Kassadin often gets a similar amount of CS relative to Ashe. Champs who typically don't take much CS usualy don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as supports. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually need many items to be effective. In either case, try to exceed the numbers displayed here to do well.
The best items to have in your Kassadin versus Ashe build consist of Rabadon's Deathcap, Malignance, and Rod of Ages. When Kassadin combined at least these three items in his build, he performed a lot better when fighting Ashe than with many other commonly used counter builds. In fact, Kassadin had an average winrate of 51.8% when countering Ashe with this counter build.
To have the highest chance of vanquishing Ashe as Kassadin, you should equip the First Strike, Magical Footwear, Future's Market, Cosmic Insight, Sudden Impact, and Ultimate Hunter runes from the Inspiration and Domination rune sets. Of all the rune builds players chose for Kassadin vs Ashe counters, this combo of runes resulted in the best win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 51.8% win rate overall.
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