Kassadin·Mid Build

Most Popular

If you want to use the most popular Kassadin Mid build, you should take Flash and Teleport as your Summoner Spells. For runes, you should pick Electrocute as your keystone, followed by Taste of Blood, Eyeball Collection and Ultimate Hunter in the primary tree, as well as Legend: Haste and Presence of Mind in the secondary tree. For rune shards, you want Adaptive Force in offense, Adaptive Force in flex and Health Scaling in defense, though it depends on the matchup. Finally, for your items, you should build Malignance as your first item, followed by Sorcerer's Shoes and Archangel's Staff. For your last 3 items, you should build Zhonya's Hourglass, Rabadon's Deathcap and finish with Void Staff. For the skill order, you want to stick with E - W - Q. Right now, this build has 52.4% winrate over 523 matches played.

Optional

Your second option for Kassadin Mid build would be to take Flash and Teleport as your Summoner Spells. The runes that this build takes advantage of are Fleet Footwork as your keystone, Presence of Mind, Legend: Haste and Coup de Grace in the primary tree, and Overgrowth with Second Wind in the secondary tree. The shards used in this build are Adaptive Force in offense, Adaptive Force in flex and Health Scaling in defense. The items for the build are Rod of Ages, which you should build first, followed by Sorcerer's Shoes as your second item and Archangel's Staff as your third item. The rest of the items in order are Malignance, Zhonya's Hourglass and Rabadon's Deathcap. The skill order for this build is E - W - Q. In the current patch, this build has a 50.7% win rate over 507 matches.

Alternative

If you're looking for alternatives, you can use Flash and Teleport as your Summoner Spells, with runes being Electrocute as your keystone, Taste of Blood, Eyeball Collection and Ultimate Hunter in the primary tree, and Legend: Haste with Presence of Mind in the secondary tree, as well as Adaptive Force, Adaptive Force, and Health Scaling as your rune shards. The items that this build incorporates are Rod of Ages as your first item, then Sorcerer's Shoes as a second item and Archangel's Staff as a third item. You want to finish the build with Malignance, Zhonya's Hourglass and Void Staff. As far as ability max order goes, you want to keep it E - W - Q. This build is currently sitting at a 51.2% win rate across 338 matches played.

Off-Meta

If you want to try an Off-Meta Kassadin Mid build in the current patch, try Flash and Teleport as your Summoner Spells, First Strike, Cash Back, Triple Tonic and Cosmic Insight as your primary rune tree, and Sudden Impact with Ultimate Hunter as your secondary tree. Use Adaptive Force, Adaptive Force and Health Scaling as your shards. For items in this build, you want to complete Rod of Ages as your first item, then finish Sorcerer's Shoes as your second item, and Archangel's Staff as third item. The last 3 options are Malignance, Zhonya's Hourglass and Rabadon's Deathcap. The ability order for this build is E - W - Q. As of the current patch, this build has a 52.6% win rate over 211 matches played.

Situational Kassadin 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 Kassadin 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.