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Between her shield and Deaths Dance, Kai'sa is not nearly as vulnerable to burst as she should be.

princeblumpkin·4/10/2018, 3:48:03 AM·1 votes·2,289 views

And that's a problem given how insane her damage is. It would be one thing if she were easy to burst down, but between the 30% damage mitigation on DD, all the healing on DD, and the big shield on her ult, Kai'sa is able to absorb far more burst than a typical adc while being able to outduel basically anyone. When a Kai'sa can beat bruisers and Juggernauts at melee range with equal gold, that's probably a sign that she's too tanky. This shouldn't be surprising either, given that we saw the exact same thing a couple years ago with Graves when he was building Death's Dance. 30% damage reduction is just too much on a ranged champion whose weakness is supposed to be burst. I honestly don't even think that Kai'sa herself is OP, but that DD gives her a level of survivability that makes her level of damage and pick potential overbearing. You can tell that Riot didn't see this coming either because despite the fact that almost every Kai'sa builds DD now, it's not one of her recommended items. She clearly wasn't intended to be this durable, but that's where we are now.

21 Comments

Quil Evrything4/10/2018, 4:31:06 AM2 votes

you are making unwarranted assumptions. You claim riot somehow didnt imagine she would be a late game terror. I call baloney on that. She is clearly supposed to be "vayne 2.0". I mean just compare her special skin, to project vayne . They're clearly twinsies.

Kaisa is SUPPOSED to be a lategame terror. You're SUPPOSED to fear her, just like you should fear lategame vayne. The one diference, is that kaisa is BURST insanity, whereas vayne is relentless "chase you down and kill you ALL one by one".

Prob kai'sa's cooldowns are too short on Q. expect a nerf to that in a few weeks, is my guess

SooFr0sty4/10/2018, 6:20:47 AM2 votes

Deaths dance isn't mitagtion, it's a damage delay.

Hexs Fortune4/10/2018, 3:55:53 AM1 votes

Its her gimmick, has required conditions and it's tied to an ult cd

C9 Squeeky 4/10/2018, 5:04:52 AM1 votes

Riven shield + item 3812

Mortekaiser4/10/2018, 5:22:41 AM1 votes

im surprised that kaisa's shielding is considered a problem when riven has the same shit on a basic ability and abuses DD even harder

Dog of Pavlov4/10/2018, 4:51:15 AM1 votes

She's getting nerfed next patch, but I assume she will get further nerfs after that since the ones on PBE don't really fix the over-buffs she was given originally.

Mizaya4/10/2018, 4:45:40 AM1 votes

I don't have the time to do specific damage calculations right now, but I wouldn't be surprised if Rageblade is increasing her damage output by insane amounts, not to mention her shield.