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.
It takes 6 spell casts for Kassadin's slow, Force Pulse, to become castable. If he levels up that ability, judiciously use your own skills while laning against him.
Kassadin deals mostly magic damage. If he's doing well consider buying magic resist items like Mercury's Treads and Banshee's Veil.
Each time Kassadin consecutively uses Riftwalk, he pays more and more mana. Keep this in mind as you chase him.
The stats provided here emphasize some important Morgana versus Kassadin matchup stats that may help us figure out the differences and similarities between the pair. For instance, Morgana’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Kassadin’s ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Morgana may be more central to her team's team fighting effectiveness than Kassadin. This observation is in large part fueled by the differences in assists.
Morgana often has a significantly smaller longest killing spree than her matchup does. Typically, she takes less damage than Kassadin. This commonly reflects differing health capacities; however, it can also illustrate that the champion with more health has less agility and thus is not able to flee from additional damage when engaged or poked.
Both League champs are great. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Morgana usually fairs equally well when facing off against Kassadin, with a 49.9% win rate. Thus, Morgana makes an ok counter for Kassadin.
While Morgana does have a lower win rate than Kassadin, when on opposite teams, Morgana also has a much lower difficulty level that makes her a less difficult champ to pick up and master. You should be careful when picking Morgana into Kassadin.
Moreover, Morgana has a great amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Kassadin. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when facing champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion in League of Legends, in Morgana vs Kassadin matchups, Kassadin is the better champ with a similar win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during late stage team fights.
Morgana is a somewhat poor counter to Kassadin. Make sure you focus your strategy on maximizing your CS and clearing objectives. If you can do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Morgana against Kassadin.
To learn all of the intricacies of Morgana in order to counter Kassadin 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 shown above, you will grow your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Morgana most often racks up a lot less CS relative to Kassadin. Champs who on average don't get much CS typically don't need much CS to be valuable teammates, such as sup champs. 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, typically need a lot of items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the values displayed on this page to do well.
The most important items to have in your Morgana versus Kassadin build consist of Zaz'Zak's Realmspike, Horizon Focus, and Liandry's Torment. When Morgana combined at least these three items in her build, she performed much better when fighting Kassadin than with most other commonly used item sets. In fact, Morgana boasted an average winrate of 49.9% when playing against Kassadin with this counter build.
To have the highest likelihood of beating Kassadin as Morgana, Morgana players should use the Arcane Comet, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Scorch, Biscuit Delivery, and Triple Tonic runes from the Sorcery and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the rune sets players chose for Morgana vs Kassadin counterpicks, this mixture of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 49.9% winrate overall.
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