K'Sante vs Brand
How to Beat Brand as K'Sante
based on 3,436 K'Sante vs Brand matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
K'Sante vs Brand Matchup Summary
Best K'Sante vs Brand Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Brand as K'Sante
Tips for Playing as K'Sante against Brand
Take advantage of Flurry by weaving in basic attacks between spell casts - this maximizes damage output and minimizes Energy loss.
Use Sonic Wave before Dragon's Rage so you can chase the target with Resonating Strike.
Self-casting Safeguard and using Iron Will are powerful tools for killing neutral monsters (in the jungle).
Advice to Win Against Brand
Brand's passive allows him to excel against teams that cluster together. Be sure to split up against him.
Brand must land an ability before his combo is able to get started. Dodging his Sear or Pillar of Flame will disrupt his rhythm.
Try to move away from allies when you see Pyroclasm being cast. The initial missile speed is slow, which should give your team time to react.
K'Sante vs Brand Counter Stats
How to Counter Brand with K'Sante in LoL
The stats shown on this page underscore some strategic K'Sante vs. Brand counter statistics that may help us explain the distinctions between the pair. K'Sante’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Brand’s ratio of NaN, showing that K'Sante may be more central to their team's team fighting capability than Brand..
K'Sante typically has a similar longest kill spree as their opponent does. Commonly, they takes more damage than Brand. This often reflects differing health capacities, but it can also indicate that the one champion has less agility and thus is unable to kite away from further damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between K'Sante and Brand
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Who is Better, K'Sante or Brand?
Both LoL champions are great. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, K'Sante usually loses when playing against Brand, with a 46.0% win rate. Therefore, K'Sante makes a poor counter to Brand.
While K'Sante does have a lower winrate than Brand, when facing one another, K'Sante also has a much greater level of difficulty that makes them a more complex character to learn and master. You should expect to face a difficult match when picking K'Sante into Brandas their relative depth means that you may not be able to unleash their full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Furthermore, K'Sante has some amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Brand. 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 in League of Legends, in K'Sante vs Brand matchups, Brand is the better champ with a much lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during team fights.
K'Sante is a bad counter to Brand. Focus your actions on increasing your CS and clearing objectives. If you do that, you should do very well as K'Sante against Brand.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of K'Sante to counter Brand during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to learn a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and stats shown here, you will increase your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
K'Sante most often accumulates more CS as Brand. Champs who typically don't acquire much CS usualy don't need much CS to be effective, such as sup champs. They are able to scale properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually need many items to be effective. In either situation, try to surpass the numbers displayed on this page to do well.
The top items to prioritize in your K'Sante versus Brand build include Kaenic Rookern, Iceborn Gauntlet, and Jak'Sho, The Protean. When K'Sante combined at least these three items in their build, they did significantly better vs. Brand than with many other commonly used item sets. In fact, K'Sante boasted an average win rate of 46.0% when playing against Brand with this build.
To have the highest likelihood of coming out on top against Brand as K'Sante, you should take the Grasp of the Undying, Demolish, Conditioning, Overgrowth, Approach Velocity, and Biscuit Delivery runes from the Resolve and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the rune builds players chose for K'Sante vs Brand counter picks, this order of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 46.0% winrate overall.
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