Caitlyn vs K'Sante
How to Beat K'Sante as Caitlyn
based on 5,470 Caitlyn vs K'Sante matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Caitlyn vs K'Sante Matchup Summary
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Guide to Countering K'Sante as Caitlyn
Tips for Playing as Caitlyn against K'Sante
Fire 90 Caliber Net away from the opponent to close the gap or hop over walls.
Avoid using Ace in the Hole in large team melees as it might be blocked by the wrong target.
Make use of her Yordle Snap Traps by placing them pre-emptively to ensure that you'll have one off of cooldown during combat.
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.
Caitlyn vs K'Sante Counter Stats
How to Counter K'Sante with Caitlyn in LoL
The stats shown on this page show several vital Caitlyn versus K'Sante matchup statistics that may help us appreciate the differences between the pair. For instance, Caitlyn’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than K'Sante’s KDA ratio of NaN, showing that Caitlyn may be more central to her team's team fighting capacity than K'Sante..
Caitlyn normally has a slightly larger longest kill spree than her counter does. On average, she takes less damage than K'Sante. This commonly reflects different amounts of tankyness; however, it can also indicate that the one champ has less mobility and thus is unable to escape further harm when engaged or poked.
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Who is Better, Caitlyn or K'Sante?
Both League of Legends champions are great champions. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Caitlyn usually wins when playing against K'Sante, with a 51.4% win rate. Thus, Caitlyn makes a good counter for K'Sante.
While Caitlyn does have a higher win rate than K'Sante, when facing one another, Caitlyn also has a lower level of difficulty that makes her a less challenging character to learn and master. You still need to be cautious when picking Caitlyn into K'Sante.
Additionally, Caitlyn has only a small amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to K'Sante. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when trying to counter champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion in League of Legends, in Caitlyn vs K'Sante matchups, Caitlyn is the better champ with a higher win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during late stage team fights.
Caitlyn is a decent counter to K'Sante. You will do well by focussing your strategy on keeping up your gold income and taking out objectives. If you are able to do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Caitlyn against K'Sante.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Caitlyn to counter K'Sante during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to gather a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you listen to the build and tips presented above, you will grow your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Caitlyn usually racks up a similar amount of CS as K'Sante. Champs who on average don't take much CS typically don't need much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs 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 values reported on this page to do well.
The most important items to prioritize in your Caitlyn versus K'Sante build include Youmuu's Ghostblade, The Collector, and Opportunity. When Caitlyn combined at least these three pieces in her build, she performed significantly better vs. K'Sante than with most other commonly used counter builds. In fact, Caitlyn boasted an average winrate of 51.4% when playing against K'Sante with this counter build.
To have the highest chance of defeating K'Sante as Caitlyn, Caitlyn players should take the First Strike, Magical Footwear, Biscuit Delivery, Cosmic Insight, Absolute Focus, and Gathering Storm runes from the Inspiration and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the runes players chose for Caitlyn vs K'Sante counters, this sequence of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 51.4% win rate overall.
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