Talk:Kai'Sa/@comment-4636093-20180227115202

RiotJag her Designer gave a great writup on the forums about what's expected of her.

https://boards.na.leagueoflegends.com/en/c/developer-corner/oEEngRkl-what-do-i-build-on-kaisa

TL:DR; Yes, she's intended to be truly flexible.

As a bot laner she pairs well with the likes of CC machines like Leona and Thresh because of them amping her passive and giving her more procs of that juicy damage. Even if she goes elsewhere she still likes having teammates who have CC because they give her extra ways to engage on their backline with her ult and assassinate their squishies.

While she does hybridize very well, her evolutions were designed to make her gameplay different from match to match. You do NOT need to evolve all of her skills to be useful, they're expecting people to only go for 2 of them in normal cases. All 3 can be done but it's not utterly needed.

She can build a whole number of different things, she is primarily an auto attacker and scales best with attack speed, but other than that you can build AD with the likes of Infinity Edge and Essence reaver or even Duskblade if you're playing her like an assassin, AP/On-Hit with the likes of Guinsoo's and Nashor's Tooth, or hybridize with the likes of Gunblade and mix-n-match items from the above. One item he drew particular attention to was BotRK as she's got short range so early lifesteal is a good choice.

Her attrocious base stats are intended because she scales so well with items.

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On a personal note I'm so happy I read that post. I was feeling a bit grinded down trying to theorycraft builds which involved all of her evolutions, and trying to shoehorn things in to add up stats and make up the deficit. less pressure to actually get all her evolutions feels more liberating than I originally thought.