Kai'Sa vs Soraka
How to Beat Soraka as Kai'Sa
based on 3,612 Kai'Sa vs Soraka matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Kai'Sa vs Soraka Matchup Summary
Best Kai'Sa vs Soraka Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Soraka as Kai'Sa
Tips for Playing as Kai'Sa against Soraka
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.
Advice to Win Against Soraka
It's easier to focus Soraka than the ally she is healing.
Focus on attacking Soraka when she ever ventures to the frontline to heal her allies.
Take advantage of Soraka's long cooldown on Equinox if she uses it to harass.
Kai'Sa vs Soraka Counter Stats
How to Counter Soraka with Kai'Sa in LoL
The stats shown on this page show some valuable Kai'Sa vs. Soraka counter statistics 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 greater than Soraka’s ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Kai'Sa may be more central to her team's team fighting capability than Soraka. This observation is largely a result of the difference in kills.
Kai'Sa often has a much larger longest kill spree than her enemy does. Commonly, she takes more damage than Soraka. This commonly reflects different amounts of tankyness, but it can also illustrate that the champ with higher health has less agility and thus is not able to flee from additional harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Kai'Sa and Soraka
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Who is Better, Kai'Sa or Soraka?
Both League of Legends champs are great champions. Both champs have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Kai'Sa usually loses when playing against Soraka, with a 48.3% win rate. As a result, Kai'Sa makes a bad counter to Soraka.
While Kai'Sa does have a lower winrate compared to Soraka, when they face off with one another, Kai'Sa also has a much greater level of difficulty that makes her a more time consuming champion to pick up and master. You still need to be cautious when picking Kai'Sa into Soraka.
Moreover, Kai'Sa has only a small amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Soraka. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when trying to counter champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion overall in League of Legends, in Kai'Sa vs Soraka matchups, Soraka is the better champ with a lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during late stage team fights.
Kai'Sa is a somewhat poor counter for Soraka. Make sure you focus your actions on increasing your gold income and clearing objectives. If you do that, you should do very well as Kai'Sa against Soraka.
Other Champion Matchups Against Kai'Sa
Additional Information for Kai'Sa Players
How We Calculated Our Kai'Sa vs Soraka Build and Stats
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Kai'Sa to counter Soraka during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to pick up a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you listen to the build and tips shown above, you should grow your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Kai'Sa most often picks up much more CS as Soraka. Champions who on average don't get much CS usualy don't have to have much CS to be effective, such as sup champs. They are capable of scaling properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, often have to have many items to be effective. In either case, try to exceed the values displayed on this page to do well.
The most important items to focus on in your Kai'Sa versus Soraka build include Zhonya's Hourglass, Terminus, and Kraken Slayer. When Kai'Sa used at least these three items in her build, she did significantly better when facing Soraka than with most other common counter builds. In fact, Kai'Sa had an average winrate of 48.3% when playing against Soraka with these items in her kit.
To have the best probability of annihilating Soraka as Kai'Sa, Kai'Sa players should take the Hail of Blades, Taste of Blood, Eyeball Collection, Treasure Hunter, Biscuit Delivery, and Magical Footwear runes from the Domination and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the rune combinations players picked for Kai'Sa vs Soraka fights, this mixture of runes yielded the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 48.3% win rate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to beat Soraka as Kai'Sa are shown for all skill levels combined. To narrow the stats and builds to a specific division, you may use the selection menu located at the top of this page.