Soraka vs Kassadin
How to Beat Kassadin as Soraka
based on 1,148 Soraka vs Kassadin matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Soraka vs Kassadin Matchup Summary
Best Soraka vs Kassadin Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Kassadin as Soraka
Tips for Playing as Soraka against Kassadin
Equinox can be used as a powerful zoning tool to keep enemies at bay.
You can use Wish on your allies from across the map to save them from otherwise fatal events.
Soraka is a powerful ally in battle, using her strong healing to keep the party moving forward.
Advice to Win Against Kassadin
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.
Soraka vs Kassadin Counter Stats
How to Counter Kassadin with Soraka in LoL
The stat comparisons provided here feature some valuable Soraka vs. Kassadin matchup statistics that may help you distinguish the differences and similarities between the pair. For instance, Soraka’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Kassadin’s KDA ratio of NaN, highlighting that Soraka may be more central to her team's team fighting capacity than Kassadin. This observation is in large part caused by the differences in assists.
Soraka often has a significantly smaller longest killing spree than her opponent does. Typically, she receives less damage than Kassadin. This often reflects different amounts of tankyness; however, it can also imply that the one champion has less mobility and thus is not able to kite away from further damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Soraka and Kassadin
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Who is Better, Soraka or Kassadin?
Both League champs are great. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Soraka usually wins when facing off against Kassadin, with a 51.7% win rate. As a result, Soraka makes a good counter for Kassadin.
While Soraka does have a higher winrate than Kassadin, when they face off with one another, Soraka also has a much lower learning curve that makes her a less difficult champion to pick up and master. You should be careful when picking Soraka into Kassadin.
Furthermore, Soraka has a great deal of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Kassadin. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when trying to counter champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion overall in League of Legends, in Soraka vs Kassadin matchups, Soraka is the better champion with a higher win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during late stage team fights.
Soraka is a decent counter to Kassadin. You will do well by focussing your play on keeping up your gold and cs and clearing objectives. If you can do that, you should hold your own as Soraka against Kassadin.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Soraka to counter Kassadin during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to learn a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you listen to the build and suggestions shown here, you should increase your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Soraka typically accumulates a lot less CS compared to Kassadin. Champions who on average don't acquire much CS often don't need much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. They are able to scale well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, often have to have many items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the values displayed on this page to do well.
The ideal items to prioritize in your Soraka versus Kassadin build include Redemption, Ardent Censer, and Dream Maker. When Soraka included at least these three pieces in her build, she performed much better vs Kassadin than with most other typical item sets. In fact, Soraka boasted an average win rate of 51.7% when countering Kassadin with these items in her kit.
To have the highest likelihood of vanquishing Kassadin as Soraka, you should use the Summon Aery, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Scorch, Bone Plating, and Revitalize runes from the Sorcery and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the rune builds players chose for Soraka vs Kassadin counters, this order of runes yielded the best win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 51.7% winrate overall.
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