Darius vs K'Sante
How to Beat K'Sante as Darius
based on 2,348 Darius vs K'Sante matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Darius vs K'Sante Matchup Summary
Best Darius vs K'Sante Counter Build
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Guide to Countering K'Sante as Darius
Tips for Playing as Darius against K'Sante
Noxian Guillotine does more damage the more attacks you can land prior to it. Use Noxian Might to deal maximum damage.
Darius benefits greatly from enhanced survivability. The longer you can prolong a fight, the more powerful he becomes.
Decimate is a powerful harassment ability. Strike an enemy from maximum range for the greatest effect.
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.
Darius vs K'Sante Counter Stats
How to Counter K'Sante with Darius in LoL
The stats shown here clarify some influential Darius versus K'Sante matchup stats that may help us distinguish the differences between the two. As an example, Darius’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than K'Sante’s ratio of NaN, highlighting that Darius may be more central to his team's team fighting potential than K'Sante..
Darius typically has a slightly larger longest kill spree than his enemy does. Typically, he receives a similar amount of damage to K'Sante. This typically indicates differing health capacities, but it can also show that the one champ has less mobility and thus is unable to escape further harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Darius and K'Sante
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Who is Better, Darius or K'Sante?
Both LoL champions are great. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Darius usually wins when playing against K'Sante, with a 55.6% win rate. Therefore, Darius makes a fantastic counter for K'Sante.
While Darius does have a much higher winrate compared to K'Sante, when facing one another, Darius also has a much lower level of difficulty that makes him a less difficult character to pick up and master. You don't need to be too worried when picking Darius into K'Sante.
Additionally, Darius also 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 a single best champion overall in League of Legends, in Darius vs K'Sante matchups, Darius is the better champion with a noticably higher win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during teamfights.
Darius is a great counter to K'Sante. Make sure you focus your tactics on increasing your CS and taking out objectives. If you do that, you should hold your own as Darius against K'Sante.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Darius in order to counter K'Sante during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you listen to the build and tips presented here, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Darius usually gets a similar amount of CS relative to K'Sante. Champs who typically don't get much CS usualy don't need much CS to be valuable teammates, such as sup champs. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically have to have a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to exceed the numbers shown here to do well.
The best items to have in your Darius versus K'Sante build consist of Sterak's Gage, Trinity Force, and Death's Dance. When Darius used at least these three items in his build, he performed a lot better vs. K'Sante than with many other commonly used counter builds. In fact, Darius boasted an average winrate of 55.6% when countering K'Sante with this counter build.
To have the highest probability of coming out on top against K'Sante as Darius, you should equip the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Last Stand, Bone Plating, and Unflinching runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the rune sets players used for Darius vs K'Sante fights, this combo of runes yielded the best win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 55.6% win rate overall.
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