Udyr is one of the best junglers in the game. Taking advantage of this can give your team a large XP advantage and map control.
Damage is applied to turtle shield post-mitigation. Therefore, buying defensive items can drastically increase your survivability.
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 on this page show several important Udyr against Kai'Sa counter statistics that can help us figure out the differences between the pair. Udyr’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Kai'Sa’s KDA ratio of NaN, indicating that Udyr may be more central to his team's team fighting effectiveness than Kai'Sa..
Udyr usually has a slightly smaller longest killing spree than his enemy does. Commonly, he receives more damage than Kai'Sa. This often reflects differing health capacities, yet it can also imply that the one champion has less agility and thus is unable to flee from additional harm when poked or engaged.
Both LoL champs are great champions. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Udyr usually wins when trying to fight Kai'Sa, with a 53.2% win rate. Therefore, Udyr makes a great counter to Kai'Sa.
While Udyr does have a higher win rate than Kai'Sa, when facing one another, Udyr also has a greater learning curve that makes him a more time consuming champion to learn and master. You should be be fine when picking Udyr into Kai'Saas his relative depth means you may not be able to reach his full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Additionally, Udyr has some amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Kai'Sa. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when fighting champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion overall in League of Legends, in Udyr vs Kai'Sa matchups, Udyr is the better champion with a noticably higher win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during teamfights.
Udyr is a great counter for Kai'Sa. Make sure you focus your tactics on keeping up your gold and cs and destroying objectives. If you can do that, you should hold your own as Udyr against Kai'Sa.
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Udyr in order to counter Kai'Sa during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to learn a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you listen 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.
Udyr most often racks up less CS relative to Kai'Sa. Champs who typically don't get many minion kills typically don't need much CS to be valuable teammates, such as sup champs. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually have to have a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to exceed the numbers shown here to do well.
The best items to focus on in your Udyr versus Kai'Sa build include Thornmail, Frozen Heart, and Liandry's Torment. When Udyr combined at least these three items in his build, he performed significantly better vs. Kai'Sa than with many other typical builds. In fact, Udyr had an average winrate of 53.2% battling Kai'Sa with this counter build.
To have the greatest chance of crushing Kai'Sa as Udyr, you should use the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Tenacity, Last Stand, Celerity, and Waterwalking runes from the Precision and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the rune builds players used for Udyr vs Kai'Sa clashes, this order of runes yielded the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 53.2% winrate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to beat Kai'Sa as Udyr are presented for all skill levels combined. If you would like to narrow the statistics and builds to an individual player tier, you may use the selection menu earlier in the counter matchup guide.