Kindred vs K'Sante
How to Beat K'Sante as Kindred
based on 1,189 Kindred vs K'Sante matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Kindred vs K'Sante Matchup Summary
Best Kindred vs K'Sante Counter Build
Items
Starter Items
Early Items
Core Kindred Items
Optional Items
Summoner Spells
Skill Order
Runes
Guide to Countering K'Sante as Kindred
Tips for Playing as Kindred against K'Sante
Pick which Hunts you want to pursue carefully; getting many of them is the key to success as the game goes on.
Don't go in first to a large team fight. Wait for your teammates to initiate.
Moving around between attacks while jungling will help you avoid damage and also generate more heals from Wolf's Frenzy.
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.
Kindred vs K'Sante Counter Stats
How to Counter K'Sante with Kindred in LoL
The stat comparisons shown on this page highlight some strategic Kindred against K'Sante matchup statistics that may help us interpret the distinctions between the pair. Kindred’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than K'Sante’s KDA ratio of NaN, showing that Kindred may be more central to their team's team fighting capacity than K'Sante..
Kindred often has a slightly larger longest kill spree than their matchup does. On average, they takes a similar amount of damage to K'Sante. This often reflects differing health capacities, but it can also show that the one champion has less mobility and thus is unable to escape additional damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Kindred and K'Sante
Damage Types Compared
Champion Playstyles Compared
Who is Better, Kindred or K'Sante?
Both League of Legends champs are great champions. Both champs have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Kindred usually wins when taking on K'Sante, with a 53.7% win rate. Therefore, Kindred makes a great counter for K'Sante.
While Kindred does have a higher win rate than K'Sante, when they face off with one another, Kindred also has a much lower difficulty level that makes them a less challenging champ to pick up and master. You should be be fine when picking Kindred into K'Sante.
Furthermore, Kindred 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 fighting champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion overall in League of Legends, in Kindred vs K'Sante matchups, Kindred 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 late stage team fights.
Kindred is a great counter for K'Sante. Make sure you focus your gameplay on keeping up your gold and cs and destroying objectives. If you do that, you should do very well as Kindred against K'Sante.
Other Champion Matchups Against Kindred
Additional Information for Kindred Players
How We Calculated Our Kindred vs K'Sante Build and Stats
Other Useful Resources
Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Kindred to counter K'Sante during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to learn a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you listen to the build and tips displayed above, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Kindred often picks up a lot less CS compared to K'Sante. Champions who typically don't acquire much CS usualy don't need much CS to be effective, such as sup champs. These kinds of champions 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, typically need a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to exceed the numbers displayed here to do well.
The best items to prioritize in your Kindred versus K'Sante build include Trinity Force, Wit's End, and Kraken Slayer. When Kindred used at least these three pieces in their build, they did a lot better when facing K'Sante than with most other typical builds. In fact, Kindred boasted an average win rate of 53.7% when countering K'Sante with these items in their kit.
To have the greatest chance of defeating K'Sante as Kindred, you should equip the Press the Attack, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Coup de Grace, Sudden Impact, and Treasure Hunter runes from the Precision and Domination rune sets. Out of all the rune sets players used for Kindred vs K'Sante counter picks, this blending of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 53.7% winrate overall.
By default, tips, statistics, and builds on how to beat K'Sante as Kindred are displayed for all skill levels, merged. If you want to filter the statistics and builds to a distinct player tier, you should use the selection menu above.