Kai’Sa: protected Hex Core keyword engine

Perfect Hex Core supplies a new targeting spell every round, Black Shield protects summoned allies, and Chosen by the Stars puts growth keywords on the champion. At six stars, Second Skin lets an early ally borrow her keywords before she reaches the board.

Players explicitly recommend this exact trio. It's her highest-voted player build, while the existing Scout guide starts with a more fixed keyword package. Here you build and share the keyword pool through repeated spells.

Perfect Hex Core

At Round Start, creates a Fleeting Hex Core Upgrade with Burst and the ability to target any ally. Use it to add keywords to a useful early unit, then bring those keywords into the champion’s pool with Second Skin. You do not need the main champion in play to receive this relic’s generated spell.

Black Shield

Grants Spellshield when an ally is summoned. The shield can absorb a targeted enemy spell or Skill, but it is consumed; the relic does not automatically refresh it every round on the same surviving unit.

Chosen by the Stars

Grants Fated and Augment. At ten Power, the carrier has Challenger, Overwhelm and Regeneration. Created targeting spells can help trigger both growth keywords once the champion is present, with Fated limited to its first targeting each round.

Level 30 and three Epic slot upgrades equip the trio.

Keep an affordable unit or support champion, plus useful defense. Start adding keywords with Hex Core Upgrade while spending the generated Second Skin on a unit whose keywords you want to retain on Kai'Sa Everywhere.

At six stars, that targeted ally also receives the champion’s keywords for the round. This outward sharing is part of the six-star power, not the ordinary spell alone. Use it on a unit that can attack usefully or survive a critical block. When she later enters play, the champion can finish with her accumulated keywords and attack Skill.

The support-champion upgrade gives Hunter's Machete, providing Scout to copy; unlock it separately rather than assuming every support package has Scout. A lone Scout attack can create another attack opportunity. Track Evolve’s actual keyword count: random upgrades and your opening units determine how quickly you reach it.

Prioritize cheap units with distinct useful keywords, protection, champion discounts and affordable draw. Duplicating a keyword you already have contributes less to Evolve than expanding the pool. More board access also gives you more meaningful targets for the two generated spells.

Full Build supplies a fixed combat-keyword set, while Dreams Of Yordles and Galeforce define the existing smaller-body Scout build. Galeforce shuffles the champion into the deck at Round End, so that alternative needs draw or another copy if the first attacks do not finish.

Six-star Wield The Abyss creates Second Skin every Round Start and gives its targeted ally the champion’s keywords for that round. Five-star Voidtouched II supplies the upgraded starting mana and keyword-based stat thresholds; its +2 starting mana replaces the two-star +1 rather than stacking for four opening mana. Three-star From Prey To Predator II grants a random positive keyword every Round Start. The outward-sharing plan here requires six stars.

• Kai’Sa or Akshan at six stars by u/helloimapickle, 2026-03-28, 33 points (observed 14 Oct 2026).
• Kai’Sa builds for PoC by u/strikestrife, 2025-01-26, 15 points (observed 14 Oct 2026).
• Player-voted builds, local snapshot collected 13 Oct 2026.
• Champion guide builds and recorded clears, local snapshot collected 13 Oct 2026.
• Champion mechanics and level rewards, local data checked 14 Oct 2026.