Make sure to buy items that will evolve at least 1 or 2 of your spells.
Work with your teammates to set up your Ultimate and optimize damage with your passive.
Try to catch enemy carries alone to burst them with Icathian Rain.
The stats shown here feature some important Kai'Sa against Nilah counter stats that can help us figure out the differences and similarities between the two. As an example, Kai'Sa’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Nilah’s ratio of NaN, highlighting that Kai'Sa may be more central to her team's team fighting potential than Nilah..
Kai'Sa typically has a similar longest kill spree as her opponent does. Typically, she receives less damage than Nilah. This often reflects different amounts of tankyness, but it can also hint that the champ with higher health has less agility and thus is unable to escape additional harm when engaged or poked.
Both League champs are great. Both have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Kai'Sa usually loses when taking on Nilah, with a 42.8% win rate. Thus, Kai'Sa makes a bad counter to Nilah.
While Kai'Sa does have a much lower winrate compared to Nilah, when they face off with one another, Kai'Sa also has a much lower level of difficulty that makes her a less complex character to learn. You should be very concerned when picking Kai'Sa into Nilah.
Furthermore, Kai'Sa has only a small amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Nilah. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when facing champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion overall in League of Legends, in Kai'Sa vs Nilah matchups, Nilah is the better champion with a much lower win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during late stage team fights.
Kai'Sa is a garbage counter for Nilah. You will do well by focussing your play on increasing your CS and clearing objectives. If you can do that, you should do very well as Kai'Sa against Nilah.
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Kai'Sa to counter Nilah during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to learn a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and tips shown here, you should grow your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Kai'Sa most often picks up a similar amount of CS as Nilah. Champs who typically don't acquire many minion kills typically don't have to have much CS to be valuable teammates, such as sup champs. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, often need a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the values displayed on this page to do well.
The top items to use in your Kai'Sa versus Nilah build include Nashor's Tooth, Terminus, and Kraken Slayer. When Kai'Sa included at least these three pieces in her build, she did much better when facing Nilah than with most other common item sets. In fact, Kai'Sa had an average winrate of 42.8% when countering Nilah with these items in her kit.
To have the greatest likelihood of defeating Nilah as Kai'Sa, you should use the Lethal Tempo, Presence of Mind, Legend: Bloodline, Coup de Grace, Biscuit Delivery, and Magical Footwear runes from the Precision and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the runes we have analyed for Kai'Sa vs Nilah clashes, this order of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 42.8% win rate overall.
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