Kassadin with Tristana
How to Synergize Kassadin and Tristana
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Kassadin Tristana Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Kassadin and Tristana
Tips for Playing as Kassadin with Tristana
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.
Advice to Understand How Tristana Will Play
Use Rapid Fire to help stack up your Explosive Charge on enemy champions.
Her massive gun allows Tristana to fire on targets at a great distance. Utilize this to prevent your enemies from ever laying a hand on you.
Use Rocket Jump after you have stacked up your Explosive Charge on an enemy to finish them off with a burst of damage.
Kassadin Tristana Synergy Stats
How to Play with Tristana as Kassadin in LoL
The Kassadin Tristana synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Tristana, 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 large worsening in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Tristana. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Tristana helps Kassadin perform poorer in ranked League games. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Kassadin tries to synergize with Tristana, he observes a small decrease in his total damage output. This change could signal that Tristana does not help protection for him to dish out more damage or that her participation also helps increase the match's duration. Similarly, when Kassadin is played alongside Tristana on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing synergisticly with Tristana.
Moreover, when Kassadin plays with Tristana on the same team, he typically receives a little less damage than when he plays alone. Taking not as much damage may indicate that Tristana does a decent job of covering Kassadin in team fights.
Synergies between Kassadin and Tristana
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Is Kassadin better when played alongside Tristana?
There is no universally accepted best companion for Kassadin that will no matter what be his #1 teammate. However, Tristana is a very typical companion for Kassadin. By playing on the same side as Kassadin, she drops their win rate by -1.0% to 49.0%. This signals that there is not really a strong synergy between Kassadin and Tristana that results in them performing not as well together than alone.
Tristana has a much lower diffuclty than Kassadin. That means Kassadin players don't need to be cautious when enlisting Tristana allies to play with, as they will need a much lower level of skill to fight well with you.
Working together, Kassadin players should expect to see an overall large increase in your team’s capability to deal magic damage. When paired, these champions can deal quite a lot of AP type damage.
Although, by pairing Kassadin and Tristana together, you may not be providing your other allies a lot of crowd control. Plan to pick other champs on your team that offsets this relative hole in their capabilities.
Regardless of your Tristana ally's ability, you should focus on increasing your income, warding to avoid ambushes, and taking down objectives. If you do this, you will do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to truly master Kassadin to pair well with Tristana during both the early game and mid / late game phases of LoL rounds, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra lessons on this champion pairing. If you use the build and tips displayed here, you should grow your win rate significantly.
The ideal items to prioritize in your Kassadin and Tristana synergy build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Malignance, and Rod of Ages. When Kassadin bought at least these three great items in his build, he did much better as an ally of Tristana than with many other commonly used item sets. In fact, Kassadin had an average win rate of 49.0% when playing alongside Tristana with these items in his kit.
To have the best probability of crushing 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 builds that we analyzed for this champion pairing, this mix of runes yielded the top win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 49.0% win rate overall.
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