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 First Strike as your keystone, followed by Magical Footwear, Time Warp 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, 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 54.3% winrate over 1 237 matches played.

Alternative

If you're looking for alternatives, you can use Flash and Teleport as your Summoner Spells, with runes being 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, 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 Rabadon's Deathcap. As far as ability max order goes, you want to keep it E - W - Q. This build is currently sitting at a 53.8% win rate across 463 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, Conqueror, Presence of Mind, Legend: Haste and Last Stand as your primary rune tree, and Overgrowth with Second Wind 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 Morellonomicon. The ability order for this build is Q - E - W. As of the current patch, this build has a 45.8% win rate over 83 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.