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.
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.
The Kassadin Soraka synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Soraka, 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 Soraka. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This negative change shows that Soraka helps Kassadin perform worse in competitive LoL rounds. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Kassadin is paired with Soraka, he observes a small increase in his complete damage dealt. This change may signal that Soraka helps provide cover for him to deal more damage or that her presence on the team also helps increase the round's duration. Similarly, when Kassadin is played with Soraka on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing synergisticly with Soraka.
Additionally, when Kassadin plays with Soraka on the same side, he often takes a little more damage than when he plays alone. Receiving more damage could mean that Soraka does a poor job of protecting Kassadin in team fights.
There is no ideal champion pairing for Kassadin that will no matter what be his top synergy. Yet, overall, Soraka is a very typical ally for Kassadin. By locking into the same side as Kassadin, she increases their win rate by 0.5% to 50.5%. This signals that there is only a small bond between Kassadin and Soraka that allows them to perform at the top of their game together than alone.
Soraka has a much lower diffuclty than Kassadin. That means you don't need to be cautious when enlisting Soraka comrades to play with, as they will have to have a much lower level of skill to be able to work well with you.
Playing cooperatively, you should expect to witness an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to deal magic damage. Combined, these champions are able to dish out a surprising amount of magic type damage.
Conversely, by bringing Kassadin and Soraka together, you will not be granting your other teammates enough attack damage. We recommend you include other champs on your team that nullifies this relative disparity in their capabilities.
Regardless of your Soraka ally's ability, you need to focus on increasing your income, warding to avoid ambushes, and clearing objectives. If you do this, you will do well, regardless.
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Kassadin in order to pair well with Soraka during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League, you should continue reading to gather some more lessons on this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and stats shown above, you will increase your win rate by a lot.
The most important finished items to have in your Kassadin and Soraka synergy build consist of Seraph's Embrace, Rabadon's Deathcap, and Malignance. When Kassadin bought at least these three finished items in his build, he did a lot better when fighting alongside Soraka than with many other commonly used item sets. In fact, Kassadin boasted an average win rate of 50.5% when playing alongside Soraka with these items in his kit.
To have the greatest chance of crushing your oponents, Kassadin players 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 runes that we analyzed for this champion pairing, this sequence of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 50.5% winrate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to synergize Soraka with Kassadin are displayed for all ranked divisions combined. To scope the stats and builds to an individual player tier, you should use the selection menu located earlier in the counter matchup guide.