So far in Colin’s Huya Cup, Fortune into Bruiser Kai’Sa has won 50% of the games with 3-way contests almost every game. Even when contested and low-rolled it still out performs other comps. Here’s an explainer why it’s so oppressive.

Main Pillars: Transitioning & Artifacts

Fortune transitions naturally into Bruiser Kai’Sa, you keep your storyweaver/trickshot/bruiser while hard leveling, meaning you don’t even lose that much HP. With fortune+1 item hold with Trist on 6. This makes the line very efficient.

Kai’Sa is a Monster with Artifacts

Manazane is BIS, and allows you to beat the mirror with 3 very early casts(mana overflow). Sniper’s Focus is second best, and even Gold Collector synergizes well with IE build, giving you 100% crit… and guess what gives Artifacts? Fortune!

The 20 Stack Break Point

This breakpoint is bonkers, it gives 40% chance to hit an Artifact, or a 40% chance at 22 gold. A huge boost to either combat power or rolling on 4-1. You also use a lot of 4-costs(Sylas/Galio/Ornn/Kai’Sa..etc) any way. The crazier part is…

You can hit 20 stax on as little as 4 losses…

So playing strong stage II+sac a bit of stage III either gives you an artifact or a +22gold advantage on the lobby. As a 4-cost comp, you weren’t beating the rerollers that start on 3-2 anyway, so why not fortune and sac?

I fully expect Kai’Sa and Stage III fortune to be nerfed, but for now this highly optimized build just has all the stars aligned. Artifact Kai’Sa can stabilize on 1*star, and the comp caps high with Dragonlords+Ink. Remeber, it “only” won 50% of games cuz Everything Must Go.

For a good guide on how this is played, please check out Godlikes video below. I also learned a lot just watching this being played in tournament. Will there be answer, or maybe another fortune variant? Tune in to the Huya Cup!

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