Bard vs K'Sante
How to Beat K'Sante as Bard
based on 1,929 Bard vs K'Sante matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Bard vs K'Sante Matchup Summary
Best Bard vs K'Sante Counter Build
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Guide to Countering K'Sante as Bard
Tips for Playing as Bard against K'Sante
Don't forget that enemies can also use your Magical Journey doorways, and that your ultimate can also hit your allies!
Let your Caretaker's Shrines charge up - they heal for a lot more when at full power.
It's important to collect chimes to improve your meep's attacks, but don't neglect your lane partner! Try to make a big entrance by bringing an ally into the lane with you with Magical Journey.
Advice to Win Against K'Sante
Stay spread out to minimize the impact of Lee Sin's ultimate, Dragon's Rage.
Lee Sin relies heavily on following up with his abilities. Use disables to prevent him from chaining together his abilities and attacks.
Lee Sin has powerful tools to combat physical damage in Iron Will and Cripple but he is still vulnerable to magic damage.
Bard vs K'Sante Counter Stats
How to Counter K'Sante with Bard in LoL
The stats provided here highlight several critical Bard vs. K'Sante counter stats that may help you realize the differences and similarities between this pair of champions. For instance, Bard’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than K'Sante’s ratio of NaN, indicating that Bard may be more central to his team's team fighting capability than K'Sante. This observation is in large part a result of the differences in assists.
Bard often has a slightly smaller longest killing spree than his matchup does. On average, he receives less damage than K'Sante. This often reflects different amounts of tankyness; however, it can also illustrate that the one champ has less agility and thus is not able to kite away from further harm when engaged or poked.
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Who is Better, Bard or K'Sante?
Both League champions are great champions. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Bard usually wins when playing against K'Sante, with a 54.3% win rate. Therefore, Bard makes a great counter for K'Sante.
While Bard does have a much higher win rate than K'Sante, when they face off with one another, Bard also has a greater level of difficulty that makes him a more challenging champion to learn. You don't need to be too worried when picking Bard into K'Santeas his relative depth means you may not be able to unleash his full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Additionally, Bard also has a good amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to K'Sante. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when facing champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion overall in League of Legends, in Bard vs K'Sante matchups, Bard is the better champ with a noticably higher win rate, similar champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during teamfights.
Bard is a great counter to K'Sante. Make sure you focus your gameplay on maximizing your CS and taking out objectives. If you do that, you should do very well as Bard against K'Sante.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Bard in order to counter K'Sante during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to gather a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you mind the build and stats presented here, you will increase your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Bard often accumulates a lot less CS as K'Sante. Champions who on average don't take much CS often don't have to have much CS to be effective, such as sup champs. These kinds of champions are able to scale well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually require a lot of items to be effective. In either situation, try to exceed the numbers displayed here to do well.
The ideal items to have in your Bard versus K'Sante build include Frozen Heart, Bloodsong, and Imperial Mandate. When Bard combined at least these three items in his build, he performed significantly better versus K'Sante than with many other typical counter builds. In fact, Bard had an average winrate of 54.3% battling K'Sante with this counter build.
To have the highest chance of coming out on top against K'Sante as Bard, you should use the Fleet Footwork, Triumph, Legend: Tenacity, Last Stand, Conditioning, and Overgrowth runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Of all the rune builds players picked for Bard vs K'Sante battles, this combo of runes resulted in the best win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 54.3% win rate overall.
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