Kai'Sa·Mid Build
Win rate | 44.3% |
Pick rate | 0.4% |
Ban rate | 2.1% |
Matches | 1 774- |
Kai'Sa Build
Most Popular
Win Rate 50.3% based on 453 matches
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50.3%2nd Most Popular
45.7%Alternative
51.6%Off-Meta
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Starter Items
Time Target@ 13 sec
Early Items
@ 3 min
Core Items
@ 18 min
Full Build
ability order
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Skills
situational items
Kai'Sa Matchups Overview
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The Best Kai'Sa Builds, Runes and Items for Mid in Emerald +
Most Popular
If you want to use the most popular Kai'Sa Mid build, you should take Flash and Teleport as your Summoner Spells. For runes, you should pick Hail of Blades as your keystone, followed by Taste of Blood, Eyeball Collection and Treasure Hunter in the primary tree, as well as Biscuit Delivery and Magical Footwear in the secondary tree. For rune shards, you want Attack Speed in offense, Adaptive Force in flex and Health Scaling in defense, though it depends on the matchup. Finally, for your items, you should build Manamune as your first item, followed by Sorcerer's Shoes and Luden's Companion. For your last 3 items, you should build Cryptbloom, Rabadon's Deathcap and finish with Shadowflame. For the skill order, you want to stick with Q - W - E. Right now, this build has 50.3% winrate over 453 matches played.
Optional
Your second option for Kai'Sa Mid build would be to take Flash and Teleport as your Summoner Spells. The runes that this build takes advantage of are First Strike as your keystone, Magical Footwear, Biscuit Delivery and Cosmic Insight in the primary tree, and Transcendence with Gathering Storm in the secondary tree. The shards used in this build are Attack Speed in offense, Adaptive Force in flex and Health Scaling in defense. The items for the build are Manamune, which you should build first, followed by Sorcerer's Shoes as your second item and Luden's Companion as your third item. The rest of the items in order are Cryptbloom, Rabadon's Deathcap and Shadowflame. The skill order for this build is Q - W - E. In the current patch, this build has a 45.7% win rate over 269 matches.
Alternative
If you're looking for alternatives, you can use Flash and Ghost as your Summoner Spells, with runes being Hail of Blades as your keystone, Taste of Blood, Eyeball Collection and Treasure Hunter in the primary tree, and Biscuit Delivery with Magical Footwear in the secondary tree, as well as Attack Speed, Adaptive Force, and Health Scaling as your rune shards. The items that this build incorporates are Statikk Shiv as your first item, then Berserker's Greaves as a second item and Guinsoo's Rageblade as a third item. You want to finish the build with Nashor's Tooth, Zhonya's Hourglass and Rabadon's Deathcap. As far as ability max order goes, you want to keep it Q - W - E. This build is currently sitting at a 51.6% win rate across 128 matches played.
Off-Meta
If you want to try an Off-Meta Kai'Sa Mid build in the current patch, try Flash and Ghost as your Summoner Spells, Lethal Tempo, Presence of Mind, Legend: Bloodline and Coup de Grace as your primary rune tree, and Biscuit Delivery with Magical Footwear as your secondary tree. Use Attack Speed, Adaptive Force and Health Scaling as your shards. For items in this build, you want to complete Kraken Slayer as your first item, then finish Berserker's Greaves as your second item, and Terminus as third item. The last 3 options are Navori Quickblades, Phantom Dancer and Wit's End. The ability order for this build is Q - E - W. As of the current patch, this build has a 55.4% win rate over 65 matches played.
Situational Kai'Sa Runes and Items
Depending on the context of your game, your matchup, and enemy champions, you might want to consider building some situational items or take specific runes. Carefully examine your team, enemy team, game state , and your matchup to plan your Kai'Sa build accordingly! For example, when it comes to rune shards, you might want to take either Armor or Magic Resist, depending on which champion you are about to lane against.
Furthermore, if you want a more detailed breakdown, you should also check out Kai'Sa runes page.
Probuilds
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In-depth Build Stats
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Kai'Sa Counters - Best and Worst Matchups for Mid in Emerald +
Best Matchups
In Patch 14.9 the best possible matchups for Kai'Sa Mid are:
- vs. Kennen - 81.8% win rate over 11 games.
- vs. Xerath - 75.0% win rate over 20 games.
- vs. Rumble - 71.4% win rate over 7 games.
- vs. Ekko - 70.0% win rate over 20 games.
- vs. Akshan - 61.1% win rate over 18 games.
Consider picking Kai'Sa into these matches to increase your chance to win a game. These are the most popular Mid matchups that currently are in favor of Kai'Sa.
Worst Matchups
We highly recommend avoiding picking Kai'Sa in the current patch into the following Mid matchups:
- vs. Smolder - 14.3% win rate over 7 games.
- vs. Annie - 26.7% win rate over 15 games.
- vs. Anivia - 28.6% win rate over 14 games.
- vs. Zoe - 29.2% win rate over 24 games.
- vs. Syndra - 31.3% win rate over 48 games.
These champions are considered as Kai'Sa counters in the current patch, and playing such a matchup will decrease your chances of winning a game.
Additional Notes
If you want to find out more about best and worst matchups, as well as specific matchup statistics, we highly encourage you to check our Kai'Sa counters page. Keep in mind that while the champion may counter or be countered, it also comes down to your individual skill, the skill of your opponent, your team, and enemy team compositions.