Irelia vs K'Sante
How to Beat K'Sante as Irelia
based on 1,647 Irelia vs K'Sante matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Irelia vs K'Sante Matchup Summary
Best Irelia vs K'Sante Counter Build
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Guide to Countering K'Sante as Irelia
Tips for Playing as Irelia against K'Sante
Defiant Dance is not interrupted by crowd control, try timing it for incoming disables.
Flawless Duet does not have a maximum travel distance, try using it in creative ways.
Use Bladesurge to cover great distances by targeting low life minions on your way to champion targets.
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.
Irelia vs K'Sante Counter Stats
How to Counter K'Sante with Irelia in LoL
The stats provided here underscore some strategic Irelia against K'Sante counter statistics that may help us realize the distinctions between this pair of champions. Irelia’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than K'Sante’s ratio of NaN, indicating that Irelia may be more central to her team's team fighting effectiveness than K'Sante..
Irelia often has a slightly larger longest kill spree than her enemy does. Typically, she takes a similar amount of damage to K'Sante. This commonly reflects different amounts of tankyness; however, it can also hint that the champ with higher health has less agility and thus is unable to flee from additional harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Irelia and K'Sante
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Who is Better, Irelia or K'Sante?
Both LoL champs are great. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Irelia usually wins when facing off against K'Sante, with a 52.2% win rate. Thus, Irelia makes a good counter to K'Sante.
While Irelia does have a higher win rate than K'Sante, when on opposite teams, Irelia also has a much lower difficulty level that makes her a less challenging character to learn. You don't need to be too worried when picking Irelia into K'Sante.
Moreover, Irelia also has some amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to K'Sante. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when trying to counter champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion in League of Legends, in Irelia vs K'Sante matchups, Irelia is the better champion with a noticably higher win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during teamfights.
Irelia is a good counter to K'Sante. You will do well by focussing your play on keeping up your gold income and clearing objectives. If you can do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Irelia against K'Sante.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Irelia in order 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 suggestions shown above, you should grow your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Irelia most often picks up a similar amount of CS relative to K'Sante. Champs who typically don't get many minion kills typically don't need much CS to be valuable teammates, such as supports. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling properly off of their skills, stats, 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 surpass the numbers shown on this page to do well.
The ideal items to have in your Irelia versus K'Sante build include Sterak's Gage, Wit's End, and Blade of The Ruined King. When Irelia combined at least these three pieces in her build, she did significantly better when facing K'Sante than with most other common item sets. In fact, Irelia boasted an average win rate of 52.2% when playing against K'Sante with this build.
To have the best likelihood of defeating K'Sante as Irelia, you should use the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Last Stand, Biscuit Delivery, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Precision and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the rune combinations we have analyed for Irelia vs K'Sante counter picks, this composite of runes yielded the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 52.2% win rate overall.
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