One LoL champion has turn into a must-play bot laner in excessive elo solo queue

Though she has all the time hovered as one of many most-played champions in League of Legends‘ backside lane, Kai’Sa has shortly turn into the go-to decide for AD carries by means of Patch 13.14.

The Daughter of the Void at the moment holds a dominant 40.7 % decide fee amongst backside laners ranked Platinum and better, making her the most-played champion within the recreation, in keeping with solo queue stats mixture U.GG.

Kai’Sa has a 23.8 % ban fee in the identical ranked subject, whereas additionally sporting a decent 51.3 % win fee, making her a big precedence in champion choose. She has solely seen this uptick over the previous couple of patches after holding an abysmal 47.8 % win fee and 11.1 % decide fee again in patch 13.11.

Her damaging efficiency has already prompted Riot Video games to take some motion within the subsequent patch, with some sweeping changes headed to her new builds which have blown up the ranked ladder and her opponents alike.

Her largest power lies in her means to construct in a hybrid nature, since she scales with each AD and AP objects. In at the moment’s meta, for instance, her most-powerful construct runs by means of a number of AP-centric weapons like Statikk Shiv, Nashor’s Tooth, Guinsoo’s Rageblade, and Rabadon’s Deathcap. In consequence, her Void Seeker and Plasma passive deal tons of harm to squishy targets and brawnier opponents alike.

The planned nerfs on League‘s PBE might be reducing Kai’Sa’s Q AP ratio by 10 %, whereas her W cooldown refund might be lowered by two %. These modifications might sound small in comparison with her huge influence recently, however recreation designer David “Phreak” Turley mentioned on the game’s subreddit that the devs will “probably ship one other nerf” to the champion to make sure that these nerfs aren’t perceived as insignificant.

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Tyler Esguerra

Lead League of Legends author for Dot Esports. Perpetually an LCS supporter, AD carry foremost, with greater than 5 years within the business. Generally I like clicking heads in Name of Obligation or VALORANT. Creator of the Essential Strike Podcast.

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