Talk:Kai'Sa/@comment-6301771-20180221230720/@comment-6301771-20180222031309

I feel her mixed damage makes Black Cleaver a much less interesting purchase than it first appears. I'd much rather be grabbing Gunblade and Nashor's. Gunblade is nuts on her given her high mixed DPS and lack of built-in stickiness, and when it comes to on-hit items you really can't get better than Nashor's, especially given it + Bloodrazor gets you to the AS threshold by themselves, allowing you to devote your boots to something like Merc Treads given how horrific CC is on you.

I'd leave Rageblade as a later game purchase, personally. It's an incredibly strong item but without other AS sources it's slow, clunky, and inefficient. The build I'll likely be testing out to start with will probably be an early Gunblade into either Nashor's or Bloodrazor, Merc Treads, then finishing off with Rageblade and Guardian Angel. You hit all three thresholds, you've got enough resistances to not implode in fights and once things start rolling, you'll start shredding anything you can get your voidy hands on. 35% missing health damage every 3 autoattacks? Yes please.

Worried about her early game though, she doesn't have huge early game gank potential without strong coordination with her teammates, and like a Yi she reeaaaaally needs to get fed to start the pain train rolling. Her range does give her some leeway in mid-game fights if she's behind, though, which is nice. A Yi that's behind just has to split push for the next ten minutes so that he can actually be useful, Kai'Sa seems like she'll be able to at least contribute so long as you keep a level head.