My guide on being a pro macro,micro aggressive and passive kagura as someone who has played her 4 thousand times and has a 7500 mmr on her and is a student of saina.
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Kagura is a complex and a mechanically demanding mage, she shines with her wide variety of combos that will help her in different situations accompanied with her strong damage and survivability
Strengths
Kagura's strength are the following —high mobility —great survivability due to her anti cc and again mobility —adapting on situations using different combos that fits —high poke potential If you master her strengths you will play her as if its child play Mastering these advantages on kagura is a must. Once you do it's impossible to gain a bronze or silver badge on rank anymore.
Weaknesses
Kagura becomes weak when she's not with her umbrella always remember her second skill phase one is her most essential skill as it removes cc and helps kagura dash away on sticky situations. When clearing creeps and you don't see any enemy make sure to stay close with your umbrella but still make sure to hit all creep to minimum the mana used on her first skill. Another one of her weakness are skill that deal stun of damage on a huge area as a kagura your main purpose is to take down the important heroes on the opponent as you tend to be the one to have more survival chances on doing so, and with heroes with skill or ult that deals cc and damage on a huge area kagura will most likely have a hard time positioning. that's when you turn her into an assassin don't go for the normal way trying to reach the opponent you have to take down up front instead flank them don't show your self on the map and go where they least expect it. Kagura is also weak on fronts with skills that can interrupt her combo, skills like taunt, suppress, knock up, and knock back are some of the examples of it. The solution is the same treat her as an assassin because she is built like one.
Kagura to the max
This build maximize kagura's full potential putting kagura on her peak with great survivability and great Burst and anti tank damage this build has it. I suggest using winter crown as an item switch when you use it sell it and replace it with blood wings
Old kagura to the max
This build is optional but i still use it when the opponents are tanky but not high hp it's a great build and has a one hit combo potential it executed properly.
The tank killer and squishy squisher
Always remember meta shifts and emblems will also shift to match it when you're facing tank and high hp enemies i recommend using this emblem inspire, bargain hunter, and impure rage it not only helps kagura stay on almost full mana before turtle but the additional cd and poke on hp the inspire and impure rage give helps to shred tank as you can just continually cast your first without draining mana. But when you're facing squishy enemies i suggest changing the impure rage with lethal ignition because the damage of impure rage is base on how much hp your opponent has. Whilst lethal ignition just add more damage on your combos when you deal damage to an anymore over 300+ more than three times.
Battle Spell
My at most recommended spell on kagura the one and only flame shot. This spell is good for finishing and sniping escaping opponents not just that it also compliments kaguras combo you can use flameshot as part of her combo execution either using it to pin the opponent on the wall or using it to add more damage on your combo in case you still lack some on your build!
The power of calmness
The most powerful weapon is patience and calmness I'm talking calm when you're being chased by three maybe five enemies. Here's the thing when you are calm on team fights and tight situations you can immediately think of different plans and ways to outsmart the enemies and when you're calm you'd most likely execute your combos with zero flaws. And decide with no hesitations, get this you and your team are in a clash your team are 3k gold behind this clash is a lord dance clash whoever gets the lord wins the match now you know that there's only one important enemy to take down on the clash let's say someone like ixia while you and your team are in the process of lord dance you're thinking of ways on how to shutdown the threat, that's the power of calmness when you're calm your brain gives our infos in the speed of light it's like having the best wifi in the world. With this talent you'd absolutely surpass other mages.
Best With Angela
100% co-op win rate
If you have a bff or dou i suggest using angela with kagura Why? Well think of angela as a buff and the buff is meant for kagura when angela ults on kagura she becomes more than the word powerful could describe. Her mobility increases survivability increases and macro and micro play becomes child play. You easily dodge skills due to kagura's skills and the boost of shield, healing and movement speed of Angela's ult. Me and my bff have tried this on immortal rank and it is very effective mind you we haven't reached immortal yet we only get to play with immortals because we have friends that has immortal ranks yet we can keep up with them using this combo
Watch Out For Kadita
100% counter win rate
Kadita is the best counter for kagura as she can easily burst her down with petri plus ult combo if kagura is not with her umbrella plus her skills are also complex enough to match kagura. When two pro kagura and kadita meet it's a battle of death. Their name both starts with 'KA' for a reason for me that KA stands for "killers of archmages"