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.
The Samira Kassadin synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of her gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Kassadin, compared to her overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how her gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Samira sees a large worsening in her KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Kassadin. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This negative change shows that Kassadin helps Samira perform worse in competitive League of Legends games. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Samira is paired with Kassadin, she sees a small increase in her complete damage output. This difference may demonstrate that Kassadin provides protection for her to deal more damage or that his participation also helps increase the round's duration. Similarly, when Samira is played with Kassadin on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when she plays without Kassadin. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing with Kassadin.
Additionally, when Samira plays with Kassadin on the same team, she typically receives a little less damage than when she fights alone. Getting dealt not as much damage could mean that Kassadin does a decent job of covering Samira during team fights.
There is no universally accepted best champion pairing for Samira that will always be her best ally. However, overall, Kassadin is a good companion for Samira. By being on the same side as Samira, he raises their win rate by 1.1% to 49.8%. This demonstrates that there is a good bond between Samira and Kassadin that allows them to perform at the top of their game together than alone.
Kassadin has a greater difficulty than Samira. That means you should be cautious when arranging Kassadin comrades to go into battle on the same side as, as they will require a greater level of skill to work well with you.
Playing alongside, Samira players should see an overall large increase in your team’s ability to deal physical damage. Together, these champs can provide a great amount of sustained physical damage.
Conversely, by pairing Samira and Kassadin together, you will not be granting your other allies very much utility. We recommend you include other champs on your team that offsets this relative hole in their potential.
Regardless of your Kassadin ally's skill level, you should focus on increasing your gold income, warding to avoid ambushes, and clearing objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you should do well, regardless.
If you would like to truly master Samira in order to synergize with Kassadin during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League matches, you should keep reading to master some more tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you mind the build and tips presented here, you will grow your win rate by a lot.
The most crucial items to get in your Samira and Kassadin synergy build include Guardian Angel, Infinity Edge, and The Collector. When Samira used at least these three finished items in her build, she performed much better when paired up with Kassadin than with many other typical builds. In fact, Samira boasted an average win rate of 49.8% when synergizing her build and playstyle to Kassadin with this build.
To have the greatest likelihood of annihilating your oponents, you should take the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Bloodline, Last Stand, Bone Plating, and Revitalize runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the runes that we analyzed for Samira and Kassadin pairings, this mix of runes yielded the best win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 49.8% win rate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to pair Kassadin with Samira are presented for all ranked divisions combined. If you want to scope the stats and builds to an individual player tier, you should use the selection menu located earlier in the counter matchup guide.