Kassadin's ultimate has many uses and is on a shorter cooldown than most, use it often.
Kassadin has multiple item paths; he can go caster via Mana and Ability Power or anti-caster with Cooldown Reduction and Magic Resist.
Try to get the Ancient Golem buff to counteract Riftwalk's increasing Mana cost.
It can be valuable to purchase one of the items that can slow enemies: Frozen Mallet, Dead Man's Plate, or Entropy.
Shyvana's abilities all benefit from attacking units. As a result, Attack Speed items are more valuable on her than most champions.
Burnout is an ideal choice for jungling. Monsters will be hit by the full duration, and the speed boost improves her ganking potential.
Flame Breath is great to level-up against difficult lane opponents.
The Kassadin Shyvana synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Shyvana, compared to his overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how his gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Kassadin sees a very large drop in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Shyvana. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Shyvana helps Kassadin perform worse in ranked LoL rounds. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Kassadin plays on the same team as Shyvana, he sees a little drop in his total damage dealt. This difference could indicate that Shyvana does not support by providing cover for him to deal more damage or that her participation also helps increase the match's duration. Similarly, when Kassadin is played together with Shyvana on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays without Shyvana. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing alongside Shyvana.
Additionally, when Kassadin plays with Shyvana on the same side, he often receives a little less damage than when he plays alone. Taking not as much damage may indicate that Shyvana does a decent job of covering Kassadin during team fights.
There is no one best synergy for Kassadin that will always be his ideal ally. However, Shyvana is a below average companion for Kassadin. By playing on the same team as Kassadin, she decreases their win rate by -2.9% to 47.1%. This shows that there is a bad bond between Kassadin and Shyvana that results in them performing not as well together than without each other.
Shyvana has a much lower diffuclty than Kassadin. That means you don't need to be cautious when finding Shyvana comrades to go into battle on the same side as, as they will have to have a much lower level of skill to be able to fight well with you.
When playing alongside, you should expect to witness an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to deal physical damage. Combined, these champs can tear through the other team with a lot of physcial damage.
Conversely, by grouping Kassadin and Shyvana together, you will not be granting your other teammates much utility. Plan to include other champions on your team that neutralizes this relative gap in this pairing's capabilities.
Regardless of the skill of your Shyvana ally, you need to focus on increasing your income, outlasting your enemies, and clearing objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you will do well anyway.
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Kassadin in order to pair well with Shyvana during both the early game and mid / late game phases of LoL, you should keep reading to master additional tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you use the build and tips presented here, you should increase your win rate significantly.
The most important finished items to prioritize in your Kassadin and Shyvana synergy build include Seraph's Embrace, Rabadon's Deathcap, and Rod of Ages. When Kassadin used at least these three items in his build, he performed significantly better when paired up with Shyvana than with most other commonly used item sets. In fact, Kassadin had an average win rate of 47.1% helping carry Shyvana with this build.
To have the highest chance of coming out on top against your oponents, you should equip the First Strike, Magical Footwear, Future's Market, Cosmic Insight, Sudden Impact, and Ultimate Hunter runes from the Inspiration and Domination rune sets. Of all the rune sets players chose for this team composition, this combo of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 47.1% win rate overall.
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