Gangplank vs K'Sante
How to Beat K'Sante as Gangplank
based on 879 Gangplank vs K'Sante matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Gangplank vs K'Sante Matchup Summary
Best Gangplank vs K'Sante Counter Build
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Guide to Countering K'Sante as Gangplank
Tips for Playing as Gangplank against K'Sante
Try placing Cannon Barrage on the path of escape to cut off fleeing enemies.
Parrrley applies On Hit effects like Frozen Mallet or Black Cleaver.
Paying attention to low-health enemies on the map can land you a surprise kill with Cannon Barrage.
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.
Gangplank vs K'Sante Counter Stats
How to Counter K'Sante with Gangplank in LoL
The stats provided here underscore some valuable Gangplank against K'Sante counter statistics that can help you figure out the differences and similarities between these two champs. As an example, Gangplank’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than K'Sante’s ratio of NaN, showing that Gangplank may be more central to his team's team fighting potential than K'Sante..
Gangplank typically has a similar longest killing spree as his enemy does. Typically, he takes less damage than K'Sante. This commonly reflects different amounts of tankyness; however, it can also indicate that the champ with higher health has less agility and thus is unable to flee from further damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Gangplank and K'Sante
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Who is Better, Gangplank or K'Sante?
Both LoL champions are great champions. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Gangplank usually wins when taking on K'Sante, with a 52.9% win rate. Therefore, Gangplank makes a good counter for K'Sante.
While Gangplank does have a higher win rate compared to K'Sante, when they face off with one another, Gangplank also has a greater level of difficulty that makes him a more challenging champion to pick up and master. You should be be fine when picking Gangplank into K'Santeas his relative depth means you may not be able to unleash his full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Moreover, Gangplank also has almost no amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to K'Sante. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when facing champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion in League of Legends, in Gangplank vs K'Sante matchups, Gangplank is the better champion with a noticably higher win rate, similar champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during teamfights.
Gangplank is an above average counter to K'Sante. You will do well by focussing your gameplay on keeping up your gold income and taking out objectives. If you are able to do that, you should do very well as Gangplank against K'Sante.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Gangplank in order to counter K'Sante during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to gather a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you listen to the build and suggestions shown above, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Gangplank most often gets a similar amount of CS compared to K'Sante. Champs who typically don't earn many minion kills often don't need much CS to be effective, such as supports. They are able to scale properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, often have to have several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to surpass the values displayed on this page to do well.
The most important items to focus on in your Gangplank versus K'Sante build include Lord Dominik's Regards, Essence Reaver, and The Collector. When Gangplank combined at least these three pieces in his build, he did much better countering K'Sante than with many other common item sets. In fact, Gangplank boasted an average win rate of 52.9% when countering K'Sante with these items in his kit.
To have the best likelihood of annihilating K'Sante as Gangplank, Gangplank players should take the First Strike, Magical Footwear, Future's Market, Cosmic Insight, Bone Plating, and Overgrowth runes from the Inspiration and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the rune sets players used for Gangplank vs K'Sante clashes, this sequence of runes yielded the highest win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 52.9% winrate overall.
By default, tips, statistics, and builds on how to beat K'Sante as Gangplank are given for all ranked divisions combined. If you would like to filter the statistics and builds to a distinct division, you should use the selection menu located earlier in the counter matchup guide.