Make sure to buy items that will evolve at least 1 or 2 of your spells.
Work with your teammates to set up your Ultimate and optimize damage with your passive.
Try to catch enemy carries alone to burst them with Icathian Rain.
Lissandra's abilities are shorter range than those of many mages. As a result, buying items that offer both ability power and defense, like Zhonya's Hourglass and Banshee's Veil, can be a great choice to help her both survive and deal damage.
Casting Glacial Path and then running in the opposite direction will leave your enemies uncertain which way you will actually go.
You can instantly use your ultimate on yourself by pressing the self cast key and the ultimate key at once (alt+R by default).
The Kai'Sa Lissandra synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of her gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Lissandra, compared to her overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how her gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Kai'Sa sees a large worsening in her KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Lissandra. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Lissandra helps Kai'Sa perform worse in ranked LoL matches. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Kai'Sa is an ally to Lissandra, she sees a marginal improvement in her full damage dealt. This change may demonstrate that Lissandra helps provide protection for her to deal more damage or that her presence also helps increase the match's duration. Similarly, when Kai'Sa is played alongside Lissandra on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when she plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing synergisticly with Lissandra.
Additionally, when Kai'Sa plays with Lissandra on the same side, she typically receives a little more damage than when she fights alone. Getting dealt more damage may mean that Lissandra does a poor job of protecting Kai'Sa during teamfights.
There is no ideal companion for Kai'Sa that will 100% of the time be her best teammate. However, Lissandra is a very typical teammate for Kai'Sa. By being on the same team as Kai'Sa, she raises their win rate by 0.8% to 47.3%. This shows that there is a weak bond between Kai'Sa and Lissandra that allows them to perform better together than alone.
Lissandra has a lower difficulty than Kai'Sa. That means you don't need to be careful when lining up Lissandra allies to fight alongside, as they will have to have a relatively low level of skill to play well with you.
Playing cooperatively, you should expect to see an overall large increase in your team’s capability to to do a lot of AP damage. When paired, these champs are able to dish out a surprising amount of magic type damage.
Conversely, by grouping Kai'Sa and Lissandra together, you may not be providing your other allies enough support. Plan to include other champs on your team that fills this relative gap in this pairing's kit.
Regardless of the skill of your Lissandra teammate, you should focus on maximizing your income, outlasting your enemies, and clearing objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you will do well anyway.
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Kai'Sa to work well with Lissandra during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to pick up some more lessons on this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and stats shown above, you will increase your win rate significantly.
The ideal items to have in your Kai'Sa and Lissandra synergy build include Guinsoo's Rageblade, Blade of The Ruined King, and Terminus. When Kai'Sa incorporated at least these three great items in her build, she did much better as an ally of Lissandra than with most other common item sets. In fact, Kai'Sa had an average win rate of 47.3% when playing alongside Lissandra with these items in her kit.
To have the best chance of crushing your oponents, Kai'Sa players should take the Hail of Blades, Taste of Blood, Eyeball Collection, Treasure Hunter, Biscuit Delivery, and Magical Footwear runes from the Domination and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the rune builds that we analyzed for this team composition, this mix of runes yielded the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 47.3% win rate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to synergize Lissandra with Kai'Sa are given for all ranked divisions combined. To narrow the stats and builds to a particular division, you should use the selection menu located at the top of this page.