Kassadin
Hardest matchups for Kassadin in Mid (Emerald, patch 16.20): 
Tryndamere, 
Ekko, 
Talon. Easiest: 
Lucian, 
Corki, 
Smolder.
Try it in a draftCountersPower curvesIn the tier listWho wins into KassadinOn the pro tier list
Kassadin on patch 16.22
- Mid50.6%#31 of 91B6,033 games
- Top55.5%#8 of 103A344 games
- steady since 16.21
Kassadin’s main role on patch 16.22 is Mid: a 50.6% win rate across 6,033 Emerald games, #31 of 91 Mid champions on the tier list (grade B), picked in 2.4% of games. Kassadin is also played Top: a 55.5% win rate across 344 games, #8 of 103. Since patch 16.21, Kassadin Mid has not moved by more than chance explains: 0.3 points across 30,211 games in 8 ranks.
Emerald games from every region, as of Nov 9, 2026. The tables below load current numbers. Patch 16.22 tier list
Solo queue
Open in the tier listPatch 16.20, the current one
| Lane | Grade | Win rate | Games | Picked | Mains |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mid93% of its games | B | 50.1%50.1% raw ±0.7 | 18,031 | 2.6%2.2% banned | 52.8%45.4% first time |
| Top6% of its games | A | 50.9%51.6% raw ±2.9 | 1,174 | 0.2%2.2% banned | 52.7%46.1% first time |
| Bot0% of its games | too few games | 50.1%52.3% raw ±12.2 | 65 | 0.0%2.2% banned | 51.6%47.2% first time |
| Jungle0% of its games | too few games | 49.6%43.3% raw ±12.7 | 60 | 0.0%2.2% banned | 51.5%47.2% first time |
| Support0% of its games | too few games | 49.7%31.3% raw ±24.5 | 16 | 0.0%2.2% banned | 51.3%47.0% first time |
Matchups
Every matchupHow to read this
Kassadin’s win rate against each champion picked into it in the lane opposite: its hardest matchups, then its easiest. The small number is the matchup’s own effect on Kassadin, the part not explained by either champion’s strength.
Hardest for Kassadin
Lane leads and team bans
What Kassadin’s team bans
Champions a team bans more often when it has Kassadin than the other team does in the same games (100,863 games). The other team banned before Kassadin was picked, so the gap is the ban spent because Kassadin was coming — a sign players see these as counters. Riot does not say which player cast a ban, so this is the team’s choice.
Builds
Every buildHow to read this
How Kassadin is built in this lane, most common first, with the items those builds finish and how they win.
- Mana stack
52.0%15,130 games - AP sustained51.5%2,492 games
- AP burst
56.3%584 games - Tank
52.1%4 games
Runes and summoner spells
How to read this
How Kassadin does with each summoner-spell pair, keystone and minor rune in this lane, at the rank and region above. These are the win rates of the players who made each choice, not the choice’s own effect: a page is recommended only when a real share of players runs it.
19,544 games · patches 16.20, 16.21 · Sep 10 – Oct 21
Flash + Ignite53.6% · 5,166 games
First StrikeInspiration + Domination · 50.6%
Cash Back · Triple Tonic · Cosmic Insight · Sudden Impact · Ultimate HunterShards: Adaptive Force · Adaptive Force · Health
Start: Dark Seal + Refillable Potion · 54.1%
Key items: Rod of Ages → Archangel's Staff · 51.8%
Boots: Sorcerer's Shoes · 52.8%Every option, with its numbers
Summoner spells
- Flash + Ignite53.6%5,166 games · 26% pick rate · same players: +2.3 pts vs the usualRecommended
Flash + Teleport48.9%13,515 games · 69% pick rate · the usual choice
Flash + Barrier51.8%563 games · 2.9% pick rate · same players: −0.7 pts vs the usualRare: not recommended
Keystones
Deathfire Touch + Resolve51.8%424 games · 2.2% pick rate · same players: +0.6 pts vs the usualRare: not recommended- First Strike + Domination50.6%5,788 games · 30% pick rate · the usual choiceRecommended
- Deathfire Touch + Domination51.4%1,934 games · 9.9% pick rate · same players: −0.3 pts vs the usualRare: not recommended
Electrocute + Precision49.7%4,188 games · 21% pick rate · same players: −0.5 pts vs the usual
Minor runes with First Strike
- Cash Back50.6%97% take it
Magical Footwear55.4%2.7% take it
- Triple Tonic50.7%98% take it
- Cosmic Insight50.3%90% take it
Jack Of All Trades54.4%9.8% take it
- Ultimate Hunter50.6%100% take it
- Sudden Impact50.5%99% take it
- Adaptive Force50.3%89% take it
- Ability Haste50.3%7.6% take it
- Attack Speed47.5%3.0% take it
- Adaptive Force51.5%29% take it
- Health Scaling49.5%69% take it
- Health51.0%10% take it
- Health Scaling50.2%87% take it
- Tenacity and Slow Resist48.0%2.3% take it
These numbers describe, they do not prove. Each rate is Kassadin’s record when its player chose that option, pulled toward Kassadin’s own rate by 100 games of prior so a small sample cannot look like a discovery. An uncommon page often wins more because experts run it, and they would win on any page, so only a choice taken in at least 10% of games can be recommended, and spells and keystones are ranked by how the SAME players do with them against the usual choice, not by the raw rate; rarer ones are listed with their numbers and labeled. The build line (opening buy, the two key items in the order they are finished, boots or the support upgrade) is advice in the same sense: how Kassadin does when built that way.
Champions like Kassadin
The champion map
Two different questions: which champions share its toolkit, and which ones the players who play it also play.
The learning curve
Champion pool
On a first game Kassadin wins 46.1%; in the hands of players with the most mastery on it, 53.3%. That gap ranks it 36 of 173 for how much practice pays. It crosses 50% at about 59K mastery points.
Pro play
On the pro tier list
Kassadin in the major leagues and international events this season, across 3,434 games: its record, how often it is picked or banned, whether it is taken blind or saved as a counter, its lane at 15 minutes, and the best pro on it.
| Lane | Win rate | Priority | Blind / counter | Lane @15 | Best pro |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mid | 49.8%3W 4L | 0%0% in any lane | 100% counter | −437 gold | — |
How much knowing Kassadin pays
Players on their Mastery band win 7.2 points more on Kassadin than first-timers do: #36 of 173 champions for how much mastery pays.
At 300k+ mastery points, Kassadin players win 53.3%: #17 of 173 champions for where mastery ends up. The curve is still rising there: its fitted ceiling of about 54.5% lies beyond the data and is an estimate, not a measurement.
KassadinDots are the six mastery bands, placed at their mastery points. The line is the best-fitting curve that rises and levels off.
This is not a promise about your next game. Players do not reach a mastery band in a random order, and a champion someone loses on tends to get dropped before it reaches the high bands — so the right-hand side of every curve is partly survivors, not only practice.
Text summary of this page as it stood on Nov 9, 2026. The live tables on this page are current.
Kassadin ranked-play summary
Most similar champions: Twisted Fate, Orianna, Akshan.
Anonymous public figures recorded on Nov 9, 2026, when this page was built. The interactive tables on this page load current data.