A fully charged Vault Breaker will deal double damage. It's great for catching and finishing off fleeing enemies.
Relentless Force does full damage to anyone caught in the shockwave. Use it on minions in lane to hit enemies hiding behind them.
Cease and Desist is a powerful initiation tool, just remember not to get too far ahead of the rest of your team.
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 stat comparisons shown here feature several influential Vi versus Kassadin matchup stats that may help us appreciate the differences between this pair of champs. Vi’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Kassadin’s KDA ratio of NaN, highlighting that Vi may be more central to her team's team fighting potential than Kassadin..
Vi often has a similar longest kill spree as her enemy does. Commonly, she takes a similar amount of damage to Kassadin. This typically indicates different amounts of tankyness; however, it can also imply that the one champion has less mobility and thus is not able to escape further harm when poked or engaged.
Both League of Legends champs are great. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Vi usually wins when facing off against Kassadin, with a 52.8% win rate. Therefore, Vi makes a good counter to Kassadin.
While Vi does have a higher win rate than Kassadin, when facing one another, Vi also has a much lower learning curve that makes her a less complex champ to develop with. You should be be fine when picking Vi into Kassadin.
Moreover, Vi has only a small amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Kassadin. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when fighting champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Vi vs Kassadin matchups, Vi 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.
Vi is an above average counter to Kassadin. You will do well by focussing your play on increasing your gold income and destroying objectives. If you can do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Vi against Kassadin.
To learn all of the intricacies of Vi in order to counter Kassadin during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to gather a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and tips presented here, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Vi most often accumulates a lot less CS compared to Kassadin. Champs who on average don't acquire much CS often don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as sup champs. They are able to scale properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically need many items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the values reported here to do well.
The ideal items to use in your Vi versus Kassadin build consist of Sterak's Gage, Black Cleaver, and Sundered Sky. When Vi incorporated at least these three items in her build, she did much better when fighting Kassadin than with many other commonly used counter builds. In fact, Vi boasted an average win rate of 52.8% battling Kassadin with these items in her kit.
To have the best chance of coming out on top against Kassadin as Vi, you should use the Hail of Blades, Sudden Impact, Eyeball Collection, Relentless Hunter, Legend: Alacrity, and Triumph runes from the Domination and Precision rune sets. Out of all the rune sets we have analyed for Vi vs Kassadin LoL games, this sequence of runes yielded the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 52.8% win rate overall.
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