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.
Rumble deals almost entirely magic damage. Build some Magic Resistance to reduce his damage.
Watch Rumble's Heat bar carefully. If you see him Overheat, go in for the kill while his skills are disabled.
Rumble's ultimate can deal a lot of damage if you stay inside the area of effect. When you see the missiles falling, move out of the way as quickly as possible.
The stats shown on this page emphasize some vital Kai'Sa versus Rumble matchup statistics that can help you explain the distinctions between the two. Kai'Sa’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Rumble’s KDA ratio of NaN, highlighting that Kai'Sa may be more central to her team's team fighting capability than Rumble..
Kai'Sa often has a similar longest killing spree as her matchup does. On average, she receives less damage than Rumble. This typically indicates differing health capacities, but it can also show that the one champ has less agility and thus is unable to kite away from further harm when poked or engaged.
Both League of Legends champions are great. Both champs have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Kai'Sa usually loses when taking on Rumble, with a 47.5% win rate. As a result, Kai'Sa makes a bad counter for Rumble.
While Kai'Sa does have a lower winrate than Rumble, when facing one another, Kai'Sa also has a much lower level of difficulty that makes her a less difficult champion to learn. You should be very concerned when picking Kai'Sa into Rumble.
Moreover, Kai'Sa also has only a small amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Rumble. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when fighting champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion overall in League of Legends, in Kai'Sa vs Rumble matchups, Rumble is the better champion with a lower win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during late stage team fights.
Kai'Sa is a garbage counter for Rumble. Make sure you focus your gameplay on maximizing your gold income and taking out objectives. If you do that, you should do very well as Kai'Sa against Rumble.
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Kai'Sa to counter Rumble during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to learn a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you mind the build and stats presented above, you should increase your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Kai'Sa usually gets a similar amount of CS relative to Rumble. Champions who typically don't take much CS usualy don't need much CS to be valuable teammates, such as sup champs. They are able to scale properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, often have to have a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to surpass the numbers displayed on this page to do well.
The best items to prioritize in your Kai'Sa versus Rumble build include Zhonya's Hourglass, Terminus, and Kraken Slayer. When Kai'Sa combined at least these three items in her build, she did a lot better countering Rumble than with most other commonly used counter builds. In fact, Kai'Sa had an average win rate of 47.5% when countering Rumble with this build.
To have the greatest likelihood of crushing Rumble as Kai'Sa, Kai'Sa players should equip the Hail of Blades, Taste of Blood, Eyeball Collection, Treasure Hunter, Biscuit Delivery, and Magical Footwear runes from the Domination and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the rune sets that we analyzed for Kai'Sa vs Rumble matchups, this combo of runes yielded the best win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 47.5% win rate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to beat Rumble as Kai'Sa are displayed for all skill levels, merged. If you would like to scope the stats and builds to a specific rank, you should use the selection menu located earlier in the counter matchup guide.