K'Sante vs Irelia
How to Beat Irelia as K'Sante
based on 1,647 K'Sante vs Irelia matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
K'Sante vs Irelia Matchup Summary
Best K'Sante vs Irelia Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Irelia as K'Sante
Tips for Playing as K'Sante against Irelia
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 Irelia
Pay attention to Ionian Fervor stacks and try to engage Irelia when it is down.
Minion waves greatly enhance Irelia's mobility, beware fighting her inside one.
Beware of wasting your high impact spells on Defiant Dance.
K'Sante vs Irelia Counter Stats
How to Counter Irelia with K'Sante in LoL
The stats provided here underscore several influential K'Sante vs. Irelia matchup statistics that may help us distinguish the differences between the two. As an example, K'Sante’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Irelia’s ratio of NaN, highlighting that K'Sante may be more central to their team's team fighting capacity than Irelia..
K'Sante normally has a slightly smaller longest killing spree than their foe does. Commonly, they receives a similar amount of damage to Irelia. This often reflects differing health capacities, yet it can also hint that the one champ has less agility and thus is not able to escape further harm when poked or engaged.
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Who is Better, K'Sante or Irelia?
Both LoL champions are great champions. Both champs have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, K'Sante usually loses when facing off against Irelia, with a 47.8% win rate. As a result, K'Sante makes a poor counter for Irelia.
While K'Sante does have a lower win rate compared to Irelia, when on opposite teams, K'Sante also has a much greater level of difficulty that makes them a more time consuming champion to develop with. You should be very concerned when picking K'Sante into Ireliaas their relative depth means you may not be able to unleash their full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Moreover, K'Sante also has some amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Irelia. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when fighting champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in K'Sante vs Irelia matchups, Irelia is the better champion with a lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during team fights.
K'Sante is a trash counter to Irelia. Focus your actions on increasing your CS and taking out objectives. If you are able to do that, you should do very well as K'Sante against Irelia.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master K'Sante in order to counter Irelia during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to gather a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you mind the build and tips displayed above, you should grow your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
K'Sante on average gets a similar amount of CS as Irelia. Champions who on average don't get many minion kills often don't need much CS to be valuable teammates, such as supports. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically require a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to exceed the numbers reported on this page to do well.
The best items to prioritize in your K'Sante versus Irelia build include Thornmail, Frozen Heart, and Iceborn Gauntlet. When K'Sante bought at least these three pieces in their build, they did much better vs Irelia than with most other commonly used counter builds. In fact, K'Sante had an average win rate of 47.8% when playing against Irelia with these items in their kit.
To have the greatest likelihood of vanquishing Irelia as K'Sante, K'Sante players 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 runes players picked for K'Sante vs Irelia counterpicks, this mix of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 47.8% winrate overall.
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