K'Sante vs Gwen
How to Beat Gwen as K'Sante
based on 1,564 K'Sante vs Gwen matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
K'Sante vs Gwen Matchup Summary
Best K'Sante vs Gwen Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Gwen as K'Sante
Tips for Playing as K'Sante against Gwen
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 Gwen
Gwen must hit something to recast her Ultimate, try to evade her between casts.
Gwen needs to attack a few times to set up her damage, so try to get the jump on her.
Gwen's Hallowed Mist shroud will only follow her once, after that it will dissipate when she leaves.
K'Sante vs Gwen Counter Stats
How to Counter Gwen with K'Sante in LoL
The stats shown here underscore some critical K'Sante against Gwen counter statistics that may help you grasp the distinctions between these two champs. For instance, K'Sante’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Gwen’s ratio of NaN, indicating that K'Sante may be more central to their team's team fighting potential than Gwen..
K'Sante often has a slightly smaller longest kill spree than their opponent does. On average, they receives a similar amount of damage to Gwen. This typically indicates different amounts of tankyness, but it can also illustrate that the one champion has less mobility and thus is unable to escape further harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between K'Sante and Gwen
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Who is Better, K'Sante or Gwen?
Both League champions are great. Both champs have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, K'Sante usually loses when facing off against Gwen, with a 47.8% win rate. Thus, K'Sante makes a poor counter for Gwen.
While K'Sante does have a lower winrate compared to Gwen, when facing one another, K'Sante also has a much greater difficulty level that makes them a more challenging champion to learn. You should expect to face a difficult match when picking K'Sante into Gwenas their relative depth means you may not be able to reach their full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Additionally, K'Sante has some amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Gwen. 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 one best champion in League of Legends, in K'Sante vs Gwen matchups, Gwen is the better champ with a 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 for Gwen. Focus your play on maximizing your CS and destroying objectives. If you do that, you should hold your own as K'Sante against Gwen.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of K'Sante in order to counter Gwen during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to learn a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you listen to the build and tips displayed above, you should increase your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
K'Sante most often picks up a similar amount of CS as Gwen. Champs who typically don't take much CS usualy don't have to have much CS to be effective, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are able to scale well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically need a lot of items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the values shown here to do well.
The top items to use in your K'Sante versus Gwen build consist of Kaenic Rookern, Iceborn Gauntlet, and Jak'Sho, The Protean. When K'Sante incorporated at least these three pieces in their build, they performed a lot better vs Gwen than with most other common builds. In fact, K'Sante had an average win rate of 47.8% when playing against Gwen with this counter build.
To have the best chance of coming out on top against Gwen as K'Sante, you should take the Grasp of the Undying, Demolish, Conditioning, Overgrowth, Legend: Tenacity, and Triumph runes from the Resolve and Precision rune sets. Of all the rune combinations that we analyzed for K'Sante vs Gwen counters, this blending of runes yielded the best win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 47.8% winrate overall.
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