Who to play with Kai'Sa — best team synergies

Second Skin (P) applies Plasma on its own when an ally lands the crowd control: Unstoppable Force (R) knocks up a whole group and marks all of them at once, so Killer Instinct (R) picks a target and takes you there with the shield. Ground Slam (E) slows whoever gets back up.

Until Supercharge (E) evolves you have no escape at all, and with the shortest range in bot you are the first one dived. Shadow Dash (E) taunts the assassin already on you and Stand United (R) shields you from anywhere on the map while you are already dying.

Your spikes come from finished items, not from levels: from level 7 Living Forge (P) hands you shopping from anywhere on the map and your first evolution lands a wave earlier. Brittle from Bellows Breath (W) adds 30% to any crowd control - that is your Killer Instinct (R) window.

In Mega form he only has to connect: Wallop (W) stuns the whole group for 1.25 seconds and GNAR! (R) into a wall turns the slow into a full stun. Every enemy caught is an enemy carrying Plasma, so every one of them is a legal Killer Instinct (R) target.

Worth it against dash-based comps: with no escape you die to the first one who reaches you, and Steadfast Presence (W) roots the diver the instant he commits, marking him at the same time. Against a team that simply walks at you, though, she gives you almost nothing.

Infinite Duress (R) suppresses for a full second: the target is Plasma-marked and can neither dash nor leave, so Killer Instinct (R) is never wasted. You land on him with the shield up, which is the only way you can afford to dive their backline.

Curse of the Sad Mummy (R) is a 1.5-second area stun: Second Skin (P) marks everyone it catches, so you are not choosing whether you have a Killer Instinct (R) target, you are choosing which one. Bandage Toss (Q) opens that same fight from range.

Cease and Desist (R) is unstoppable and point-and-click: their carry gets marked and pinned, and no dash takes her out of it. It is the one setup that guarantees Killer Instinct (R) lands on a squishy instead of on the tank parked in front of you.

You have the shortest attack range of any marksman: whoever jumps you is already in contact. Frenzying Taunt (E) forces him to hit Rammus while you keep firing, and the taunt itself puts the Plasma mark you need on him.

A pick synergy: Paranoia (R) blacks out their team's vision and drops him onto a target that Unspeakable Horror (E) has already feared and therefore marked, where you follow with Killer Instinct (R). He gives you no peel at all, and with no escape that hurts.

Hero's Entrance (R) does the two things you are missing at once: it shields you from across the map while they are killing you and lands a knock-up on everyone standing on you, marking them. From there Killer Instinct (R) becomes an exit, not just an engage.

Your ultimate depends on a mark somebody else has to apply: with Pyromania (P) charged, Annie's next spell is a guaranteed stun, not a skillshot that can be dodged. Your Killer Instinct (R) window always arrives instead of only sometimes.

Command: Protect (E) puts a shield and bonus resistances on you and moves the ball onto you, so her damage zone defends your position instead of hers. Command: Shockwave (R) pulls them into one spot and marks them together: five legal Killer Instinct (R) targets.

Frozen Tomb (R) freezes whoever already reached you in place: that is pure peel, and peel is the hole in your card until Supercharge (E) evolves. Ring of Frost (W) roots the whole group around her, and every root is a Plasma stack you did not have to spend.

The Gold Card from Pick a Card (W) is a stun that cannot be dodged: it marks the target from range and opens Killer Instinct (R) without you spending Void Seeker (W). Destiny (R) tells you where the flank is coming from. On peel, though, he gives you nothing.

Zenith Blade (E) roots, Shield of Daybreak (Q) stuns, Solar Flare (R) stuns again: three separate pieces of hard crowd control, which means Plasma applied over and over without you spending anything. With her, Killer Instinct (R) is ready every time a fight starts.

Death Sentence (Q) stuns for a second and a half and hands you a marked, motionless target. And the Dark Passage (W) lantern is literally the escape you do not own until Supercharge (E) evolves: it shields you and pulls you out of a dive.

Everything he does is hard crowd control: Staggering Blow (P) roots on his first attack against each target and Depth Charge (R) knocks up everyone near the victim. That is constant Plasma without spending Void Seeker (W): he sits at 48% in China, you take him for the marks.

Grand Entrance (W) knocks up and The Quickness (R) charms the same targets: nearly two seconds of chained crowd control, so a whole group carrying the mark. And Battle Dance (E) flies to you with a shield the moment you get dived, which is the only peel you will get.

With the shortest range of any marksman you stand exactly where the poke lands: Unbreakable (E) intercepts projectiles aimed at you and cuts incoming damage by 35%. And the four-stack stun from Concussive Blows (P) marks the target for you on its own.

Rocket Grab (Q) hands you a carry ripped out of position and already marked, with Power Fist (E) knocking her up on top: a Killer Instinct (R) onto an isolated squishy. Miss the hook, though, and he is a slow tank who protects you from nothing.