Make sure to take paths through brush when chasing opponents to take advantage of Rengar's passive.
Use Rengar's ultimate to find and assassinate high priority targets in team fights and skirmishes.
A lot of Rengar's power comes from empowered abilities he uses at the right moment - choose wisely!
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 shown on this page highlight some critical Rengar against Kassadin matchup statistics that can help you interpret the differences and similarities between these two champs. Rengar’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Kassadin’s KDA ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Rengar may be more central to his team's team fighting capacity than Kassadin..
Rengar normally has a similar longest kill spree as his matchup does. On average, he receives more damage than Kassadin. This commonly reflects differing health capacities, but it can also show that the champion with more HP has less mobility and thus is not able to kite away from additional harm when poked or engaged.
Both LoL champions are great. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Rengar usually fairs equally well when facing off against Kassadin, with a 49.0% win rate. Thus, Rengar makes an ok counter to Kassadin.
While Rengar does have a lower win rate than Kassadin, when they face off with one another, Rengar also has a greater level of difficulty that makes him a more challenging character to pick up and master. You should be careful when picking Rengar into Kassadinas his relative depth means you may not be able to unleash his full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Moreover, Rengar also has almost no amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Kassadin. This often 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 in League of Legends, in Rengar vs Kassadin matchups, Kassadin is the better champ with a similar win rate, similar champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during teamfights.
Rengar is a somewhat poor counter for Kassadin. You will do well by focussing your strategy on keeping up your gold income and taking out objectives. If you are able to do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Rengar against Kassadin.
To truly master Rengar 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 tips and tricks for this matchup. If you listen to the build and suggestions displayed here, you should grow your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Rengar usually gets a lot less CS relative to Kassadin. Champions who typically don't get many minion kills typically don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as supports. 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, usually require several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the values shown on this page to do well.
The best items to focus on in your Rengar versus Kassadin build include Serylda's Grudge, Hubris, and Opportunity. When Rengar bought at least these three pieces in his build, he performed much better when fighting Kassadin than with many other commonly used item sets. In fact, Rengar boasted an average win rate of 49.0% when playing against Kassadin with these items in his kit.
To have the greatest probability of annihilating Kassadin as Rengar, you should use the First Strike, Magical Footwear, Future's Market, Cosmic Insight, Sudden Impact, and Treasure Hunter runes from the Inspiration and Domination rune sets. Out of all the rune sets we have analyed for Rengar vs Kassadin clashes, this blending of runes yielded the highest win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 49.0% winrate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to beat Kassadin as Rengar are given for every ranked division. To narrow the statistics and builds to a distinct skill level, you may use the selection menu located at the top of this page.