Kassadin vs Soraka
How to Beat Soraka as Kassadin
based on 1,148 Kassadin vs Soraka matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Kassadin vs Soraka Matchup Summary
Best Kassadin vs Soraka Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Soraka as Kassadin
Tips for Playing as Kassadin against Soraka
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.
Advice to Win Against Soraka
It's easier to focus Soraka than the ally she is healing.
Focus on attacking Soraka when she ever ventures to the frontline to heal her allies.
Take advantage of Soraka's long cooldown on Equinox if she uses it to harass.
Kassadin vs Soraka Counter Stats
How to Counter Soraka with Kassadin in LoL
The stat comparisons shown on this page clarify some strategic Kassadin vs. Soraka counter statistics that can help us understand the distinctions between this pair of champions. As an example, Kassadin’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Soraka’s KDA ratio of NaN, indicating that Kassadin may be more central to his team's team fighting capacity than Soraka. This observation is in large part caused by the difference in kills.
Kassadin normally has a much larger longest kill spree than his opponent does. On average, he receives more damage than Soraka. This commonly reflects different amounts of tankyness, but it can also indicate that the one champion has less agility and thus is not able to escape additional damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Kassadin and Soraka
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Who is Better, Kassadin or Soraka?
Both League champs are great champions. Both champs have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Kassadin usually loses when taking on Soraka, with a 48.3% win rate. As a result, Kassadin makes a bad counter to Soraka.
While Kassadin does have a lower winrate compared to Soraka, when on opposite teams, Kassadin also has a much greater difficulty level that makes him a more challenging champ to pick up and master. You still need to be cautious when picking Kassadin into Sorakaas his relative depth means that you may not be able to reach his full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Furthermore, Kassadin also has some amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Soraka. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when facing champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion in League of Legends, in Kassadin vs Soraka matchups, Soraka is the better champ with a lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during team fights.
Kassadin is a somewhat poor counter for Soraka. Make sure you focus your actions on increasing your gold income and destroying objectives. If you can do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Kassadin against Soraka.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Kassadin in order to counter Soraka during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to learn a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and suggestions presented here, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Kassadin on average gets much more CS relative to Soraka. Champions who typically don't take many minion kills typically don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, often require several high cost items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the values displayed here to do well.
The top items to prioritize in your Kassadin versus Soraka build include Seraph's Embrace, Rabadon's Deathcap, and Malignance. When Kassadin combined at least these three pieces in his build, he performed much better when fighting Soraka than with most other common item sets. In fact, Kassadin had an average winrate of 48.3% battling Soraka with this counter build.
To have the highest chance of annihilating Soraka as Kassadin, Kassadin players should use the Fleet Footwork, Presence of Mind, Legend: Tenacity, Coup de Grace, Overgrowth, and Second Wind runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Of all the runes that we analyzed for Kassadin vs Soraka face-offs, this mix of runes resulted in the best win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 48.3% win rate overall.
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