Kai'Sa, A PSA

CloakAndGrenade··2 votes·367 views

Stop playing Kai'Sa as an ADC. She is an Assassin. I don't know what riot was thinking when they previewed her in the bot lane for her champ spotlight as though it were viable. Her range is far shorter than any marksman, her only form of harass aside from her easily dodgeable void seeker is easily aggro'd by minions, and unlike other short-range marksman (Vayne, Lucian) her mobility is tied to her ultimate. I don't count her Supercharger because its movespeed is incredibly situational and negatable in a lot of instances. The invisibility is nice but only comes in after two attack speed items + boots assuming you went the precision tree, 3 if you didn't. She has neither the brain cancer inducing base damage and early game kill potential that lucian has, nor the tank meta negating god tier late gaming true damage of vayne. Her kit feels and plays like an assassin, which is why her highest winrate position is jungler. And her highest winrate position clocks her in at a 43% winrate.

EDIT: Her ADC has a 43% winrate as well, so this is a mute point.

Kai'Sa isn't viable as an ADC. You want to go goof around in norms to get the mission down, go right ahead. But I'm asking nicely, keep them out of my ranked games. I'm sure she'll get buffed in a patch or two, and with the complexity of her kit i'm sure they are tricks and trades that will surface to make her far better as players learn how to play them. But I'm far more inclined to believe that after the releases of the meta busting nightmares there were day 1 Zoe, Ornn, Xayah, and Camille, they set her off in an underpowered state to avoid creating another new champ that was gonna be perma-banned anyway.

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paisy2 votes

Release Xayah wasn't broken at all, only nerfs she has gotten was:

Double Daggers REMOVED - Being able to basic attack while the ability is firing.

Deadly Plumage Cooldown increased to 20 / 19 / 18 / 17 / 16 seconds from 16 / 15 / 14 / 13 / 12.

Then they buffed her right after to soften the nerfs:

NEW EFFECT: Time in which you can't basic attack while it is firing now scales down with bonus attack speed.

Release Ornn was actually trash, did you forget he only became broken after he was constantly buffed over multiple patches?

How am I supposed to take this analysis of a new champ seriously when you thought Ornn and Xayah were busted on release?

Kai Guy1 votes

I'm not sold shes bad in bot lane. I do think she has a nasty skill cap so personally I'm looking to do 40-50 games with her in normals before I start trying for ranked. Currently after a rocky start I'm at 70% (19W 8L) with her in bot and already have 1 Penta.

Luminev1 votes

Dang I remember you, you Kai'sa supported me in a 5 man. I cried a little that game lol. (I was on my "Chatorazawa" account).

Kai Guy1 votes

I don't think I have ever run her as a support. Who did ya play that game?

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