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 Volibear Kassadin synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Kassadin, compared to his overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how his gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Volibear sees a large worsening in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Kassadin. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Kassadin helps Volibear perform not as well in ranked League of Legends games. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is only marginal.
When Volibear tries to synergize with Kassadin, he observes a little decrease in his full damage output. This difference could indicate that Kassadin does not help protection for him to dish out more damage or that his presence also helps increase the game's duration. Similarly, when Volibear is played alongside Kassadin on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing with Kassadin.
Additionally, when Volibear plays with Kassadin on the same team, he usually takes a little less damage than when he fights alone. Taking not as much damage may indicate that Kassadin does a decent job of covering Volibear in teamfights.
There is no universally accepted best ally for Volibear that will always be his ideal teammate. However, Kassadin is a very typical ally for Volibear. By playing on the same side as Volibear, he decreases their win rate by -0.5% to 47.5%. This proves that there is a weak bond between Volibear and Kassadin that results in them performing not as well together than without each other.
Kassadin has a much greater difficulty compared to Volibear. That means you should be cautious when lining up Kassadin allies to fight alongside, as they will have to have a much greater level of skill to be able to work well with you.
Fighting alongside, you should expect to see an overall large increase in your team’s capability to deal magic damage. Combined, these two can deal quite a lot of AP type damage.
Although, by aligning Volibear and Kassadin together, you probably will not be giving your other allies a lot of crowd control. Make sure to have other champs on your team that fills this relative hole in their capabilities.
Regardless of your Kassadin ally's ability, you should focus on increasing your income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and clearing objectives. If you do this, you will do well, regardless.
If you would like to truly master Volibear in order to synergize with Kassadin during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League games, you should continue reading to master some more tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you use the build and suggestions displayed above, you will increase your win rate significantly.
The most crucial items to build first in your Volibear and Kassadin synergy build include Nashor's Tooth, Hullbreaker, and Riftmaker. When Volibear used at least these three finished items in his build, he did a lot better when paired up with Kassadin than with most other typical builds. In fact, Volibear boasted an average win rate of 47.5% helping carry Kassadin with this build.
To have the highest probability of defeating your oponents, you should equip the Lethal Tempo, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Last Stand, Demolish, and Revitalize runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Of all the rune combinations players picked for Volibear and Kassadin pairings, this sequence of runes yielded the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 47.5% win rate overall.
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