K'Sante vs Illaoi
How to Beat Illaoi as K'Sante
based on 1,051 K'Sante vs Illaoi matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
K'Sante vs Illaoi Matchup Summary
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Guide to Countering Illaoi as K'Sante
Tips for Playing as K'Sante against Illaoi
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 Illaoi
Killing Tentacles whenever possible will make it much easier to win a fight against Illaoi.
When your spirit gets pulled out, fight back if you can. Dealing damage to Illaoi reduces the spirit's duration.
Avoid grouping up for Leap of Faith to reduce the number of Tentacles available to Illaoi.
K'Sante vs Illaoi Counter Stats
How to Counter Illaoi with K'Sante in LoL
The stats shown on this page emphasize some critical K'Sante versus Illaoi counter stats that can help us understand the differences between the pair. For instance, K'Sante’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Illaoi’s KDA ratio of NaN, showing that K'Sante may be more central to their team's team fighting potential than Illaoi..
K'Sante typically has a similar longest killing spree as their opponent does. Commonly, they receives less damage than Illaoi. This is usually reflective of different amounts of tankyness, yet it can also indicate that the one champion has less agility and thus is unable to kite away from further damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between K'Sante and Illaoi
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Who is Better, K'Sante or Illaoi?
Both LoL champions are great champions. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, K'Sante usually loses when taking on Illaoi, with a 42.9% win rate. As a result, K'Sante makes a poor counter to Illaoi.
While K'Sante does have a much lower win rate compared to Illaoi, when they face off with one another, K'Sante also has a much greater level of difficulty that makes them a more complex character to pick up and master. You should be very concerned when picking K'Sante into Illaoias their relative depth means you may not be able to reach their full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Additionally, K'Sante also has some amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Illaoi. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when trying to counter champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion overall in League of Legends, in K'Sante vs Illaoi matchups, Illaoi is the better champion with a much lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during team fights.
K'Sante is a trash counter for Illaoi. Make sure you focus your actions on keeping up your gold income and taking out objectives. If you do that, you should hold your own as K'Sante against Illaoi.
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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 Illaoi during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to learn a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you listen to the build and tips displayed here, you should grow your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
K'Sante usually accumulates a similar amount of CS relative to Illaoi. Champions who on average don't get much CS often don't require much CS to be effective, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually need a lot of items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the values shown on this page to do well.
The most important items to use in your K'Sante versus Illaoi build include Thornmail, Iceborn Gauntlet, and Jak'Sho, The Protean. When K'Sante included at least these three pieces in their build, they did much better countering Illaoi than with most other typical builds. In fact, K'Sante boasted an average winrate of 42.9% battling Illaoi with this build.
To have the greatest probability of vanquishing Illaoi as K'Sante, K'Sante players should use the Grasp of the Undying, Demolish, Conditioning, Overgrowth, Legend: Tenacity, and Triumph runes from the Resolve and Precision rune sets. Of all the rune sets players chose for K'Sante vs Illaoi clashes, this sequence of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 42.9% winrate overall.
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