Kai'Sa·Top Build
Win rate | 45.2% |
Pick rate | 0.1% |
Ban rate | 3.1% |
Matches | 4 134- |
Kai'Sa Build
Most Popular
Win Rate 49.8% based on 723 matches
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Most Popular
49.8%Highest WR
50.1%Alternative
49.4%Off-Meta
47.9%Top Players ALL
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50.0%runes
spells
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items
Starter Items
Time Target@ 11 sec
Early Items
@ 6 min
Core Items
@ 18 min
Full Build
ability order
Q
W
E
Skills
situational items
Kai'Sa Matchups Overview
Kai'Sa General information
Kai'Sa combos
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The Best Kai'Sa Builds, Runes and Items for Top in Emerald +
Most Popular
If you want to use the most popular Kai'Sa Top build, you should take Flash and Teleport as your Summoner Spells. For runes, you should pick First Strike as your keystone, followed by Magical Footwear, Biscuit Delivery and Cosmic Insight in the primary tree, as well as Absolute Focus and Gathering Storm 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 Zhonya's Hourglass. For the skill order, you want to stick with Q - W - E. Right now, this build has 49.8% winrate over 723 matches played.
Alternative
If you're looking for alternatives, you can use Flash and Teleport as your Summoner Spells, with runes being First Strike as your keystone, Magical Footwear, Biscuit Delivery and Cosmic Insight in the primary tree, and Transcendence with Scorch 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 Eclipse as your first item, then Berserker's Greaves as a second item and Nashor's Tooth as a third item. You want to finish the build with Shadowflame, Rabadon's Deathcap and Cryptbloom. As far as ability max order goes, you want to keep it Q - W - E. This build is currently sitting at a 49.4% win rate across 249 matches played.
Off-Meta
If you want to try an Off-Meta Kai'Sa Top 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, Nashor's Tooth and Guinsoo's Rageblade. The ability order for this build is Q - E - W. As of the current patch, this build has a 47.9% win rate over 142 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.
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In-depth Build Stats
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Kai'Sa Counters - Best and Worst Matchups for Top in Emerald +
Best Matchups
In Patch 14.9 the best possible matchups for Kai'Sa Top are:
- vs. Kennen - 60.7% win rate over 28 games.
- vs. Sion - 58.8% win rate over 51 games.
- vs. K'Sante - 56.7% win rate over 67 games.
- vs. Volibear - 55.4% win rate over 56 games.
- vs. Illaoi - 54.8% win rate over 62 games.
Consider picking Kai'Sa into these matches to increase your chance to win a game. These are the most popular Top 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 Top matchups:
- vs. Heimerdinger - 20.0% win rate over 20 games.
- vs. Cassiopeia - 28.0% win rate over 25 games.
- vs. Akshan - 30.0% win rate over 30 games.
- vs. Twisted Fate - 30.2% win rate over 43 games.
- vs. Udyr - 32.0% win rate over 25 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.