Katarina vs K'Sante
How to Beat K'Sante as Katarina
based on 2,207 Katarina vs K'Sante matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Katarina vs K'Sante Matchup Summary
Best Katarina vs K'Sante Counter Build
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Guide to Countering K'Sante as Katarina
Tips for Playing as Katarina against K'Sante
Picking up Daggers will significantly reduce Shunpo's cooldown.
Try waiting until the other team is distracted with fighting your team, and use Shunpo to teleport into the fray and unleash a devastating Death Lotus.
Using Shunpo on an allied Champion, Dagger, or minion can be a great escape tactic.
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.
Katarina vs K'Sante Counter Stats
How to Counter K'Sante with Katarina in LoL
The stat comparisons shown here show some significant Katarina vs. K'Sante counter statistics that can help us distinguish the distinctions between the two. For instance, Katarina’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than K'Sante’s ratio of NaN, indicating that Katarina may be more central to her team's team fighting effectiveness than K'Sante. This observation is largely fueled by the difference in kills.
Katarina often has a much larger longest killing spree than her foe does. Commonly, she takes less damage than K'Sante. This typically indicates differing health capacities, yet it can also hint that the champion with increased HP has less agility and thus is unable to kite away from further damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Katarina and K'Sante
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Who is Better, Katarina or K'Sante?
Both LoL champions are great. Both champs have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Katarina usually wins when taking on K'Sante, with a 51.9% win rate. Thus, Katarina makes a good counter for K'Sante.
While Katarina does have a higher winrate compared to K'Sante, when they face off with one another, Katarina also has a lower level of difficulty that makes her a less complex champion to learn. You still need to be cautious when picking Katarina into K'Santeas her relative depth means that you may not be able to reach her full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Additionally, Katarina also has almost no 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 lot of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Katarina vs K'Sante matchups, Katarina is the better champ with a higher win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during late stage team fights.
Katarina is a decent counter to K'Sante. Make sure you focus your play on increasing your CS and destroying objectives. If you are able to do that, you should hold your own as Katarina against K'Sante.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Katarina 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 tricks and insights into this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and tips presented above, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Katarina on average gets a similar amount of CS relative to K'Sante. Champs who on average don't earn many minion kills usualy don't need much CS to be effective, such as sup champs. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually have to have a lot of items to be effective. In either situation, try to surpass the numbers displayed on this page to do well.
The best items to use in your Katarina versus K'Sante build consist of Rabadon's Deathcap, Nashor's Tooth, and Stormsurge. When Katarina included at least these three pieces in her build, she did a lot better versus K'Sante than with many other typical item sets. In fact, Katarina had an average winrate of 51.9% when countering K'Sante with this counter build.
To have the greatest chance of crushing K'Sante as Katarina, you should use the Electrocute, Sudden Impact, Eyeball Collection, Relentless Hunter, Triumph, and Coup de Grace runes from the Domination and Precision rune sets. Of all the runes players used for Katarina vs K'Sante counterpicks, this combination of runes yielded the best win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 51.9% winrate overall.
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