Tormented Shadow is an excellent farming tool if you're by yourself in a lane.
Shrewd use of Black Shield can determine the outcome of team fights.
Items that provide survivability allow Morgana to become extremely difficult to kill in conjunction with Black Shield and Soul Shackles.
Kai'Sa is very vulnerable to getting outranged by mages and long range carries.
Make sure to place wards in your blind spots so you can see Kai'Sa coming.
Kai'Sa is very good at picking off isolated enemies. Stick together against her.
The stats shown here feature several significant Morgana against Kai'Sa matchup statistics that can help you explain the differences between the two. Morgana’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Kai'Sa’s KDA ratio of NaN, highlighting that Morgana may be more central to her team's team fighting capability than Kai'Sa. This observation is in large part caused by the differences in assists.
Morgana typically has a significantly smaller longest killing spree than her foe does. On average, she takes a similar amount of damage to Kai'Sa. This is usually reflective of differing health capacities; however, it can also illustrate that the one champion has less agility and thus is unable to escape further damage when engaged or poked.
Both League champs are great champions. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Morgana usually wins when trying to fight Kai'Sa, with a 55.0% win rate. Thus, Morgana makes a great counter for Kai'Sa.
While Morgana does have a much higher win rate than Kai'Sa, when on opposite teams, Morgana also has a much lower learning curve that makes her a less challenging champ to learn. You don't need to be too worried when picking Morgana into Kai'Sa.
Moreover, Morgana has a very large amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Kai'Sa. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when fighting champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Morgana vs Kai'Sa matchups, Morgana is the better champion with a noticably higher win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during team fights.
Morgana is a great counter to Kai'Sa. Focus your strategy on keeping up your gold and cs and destroying objectives. If you can do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Morgana against Kai'Sa.
If you would like to truly master Morgana in order to counter Kai'Sa 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 listen to the build and stats displayed above, you will increase your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Morgana often racks up a lot less CS compared to Kai'Sa. Champions who on average don't get many minion kills usualy don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually have to have a lot of items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the numbers shown here to do well.
The most crucial items to use in your Morgana versus Kai'Sa build include Zhonya's Hourglass, Solstice Sleigh, and Liandry's Torment. When Morgana bought at least these three pieces in her build, she did a lot better vs Kai'Sa than with most other commonly used item sets. In fact, Morgana boasted an average win rate of 55.0% battling Kai'Sa with this build.
To have the highest likelihood of coming out on top against Kai'Sa as Morgana, Morgana players should take the Arcane Comet, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Scorch, Cheap Shot, and Ultimate Hunter runes from the Sorcery and Domination rune sets. Out of all the rune builds players chose for Morgana vs Kai'Sa matchups, this set of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 55.0% win rate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to beat Kai'Sa as Morgana are given for all skill levels combined. To filter the stats and builds to a particular player tier, you should use the selection menu earlier on the page.