Kassadin·Top Build

Most Popular

If you want to use the most popular Kassadin Top build, you should take Flash and Teleport as your Summoner Spells. For runes, you should pick First Strike as your keystone, followed by Cash Back, Triple Tonic and Cosmic Insight in the primary tree, as well as Sudden Impact and Ultimate Hunter in the secondary tree. For rune shards, you want Adaptive Force in offense, Health Scaling in flex and Health Scaling in defense, though it depends on the matchup. Finally, for your items, you should build Rod of Ages as your first item, followed by Sorcerer's Shoes and Archangel's Staff. For your last 3 items, you should build Malignance, Zhonya's Hourglass and finish with Rabadon's Deathcap. For the skill order, you want to stick with E - W - Q. Right now, this build has 57.5% winrate over 207 matches played.

Optional

Your second option for Kassadin Top build would be to take Flash and Teleport as your Summoner Spells. The runes that this build takes advantage of are Electrocute as your keystone, Sudden Impact, Grisly Mementos and Ultimate Hunter in the primary tree, and Overgrowth with Second Wind in the secondary tree. The shards used in this build are Adaptive Force in offense, Health Scaling 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 46.7% win rate over 184 matches.

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, Cash Back, Triple Tonic and Cosmic Insight in the primary tree, and Sudden Impact with Ultimate Hunter in the secondary tree, as well as Adaptive Force, Health Scaling, and Health Scaling as your rune shards. The items that this build incorporates are Malignance 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 Zhonya's Hourglass, Void Staff and Banshee's Veil. As far as ability max order goes, you want to keep it E - W - Q. This build is currently sitting at a 57.4% win rate across 122 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.