K'Sante vs Kalista
How to Beat Kalista as K'Sante
based on 588 K'Sante vs Kalista matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
K'Sante vs Kalista Matchup Summary
Best K'Sante vs Kalista Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Kalista as K'Sante
Tips for Playing as K'Sante against Kalista
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 Kalista
Kalista's mobility is dependent upon attacking. This means it is low when she is outside of her attack range and that Attack Speed slows reduce the amount of distance she can cover in an engagement.
If you can break line of sight from Kalista, including through brush, her basic attacks will miss you, falling harmlessly to the ground.
Kalista cannot cancel her basic attack wind up. While she is very mobile, this offers a window to land spells on her if you anticipate when she will begin attacking.
K'Sante vs Kalista Counter Stats
How to Counter Kalista with K'Sante in LoL
The stat comparisons shown here feature several important K'Sante versus Kalista matchup statistics that may help you realize the differences and similarities between this pair of champions. As an example, K'Sante’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Kalista’s KDA ratio of NaN, indicating that K'Sante may be more central to their team's team fighting potential than Kalista..
K'Sante usually has a significantly smaller longest killing spree than their foe does. On average, they takes more damage than Kalista. This typically indicates differing health capacities; however, it can also hint that the champion with increased HP has less agility and thus is not able to kite away from additional harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between K'Sante and Kalista
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Who is Better, K'Sante or Kalista?
Both League of Legends champs are great champions. Both champs have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, K'Sante usually fairs equally well when taking on Kalista, with a 50.0% win rate. Thus, K'Sante makes an ok counter for Kalista.
While K'Sante does have a higher winrate than Kalista, when facing one another, K'Sante also has a greater learning curve that makes them a more time consuming champion to pick up and master. You should be careful when picking K'Sante into Kalistaas 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 Kalista. 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 one best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in K'Sante vs Kalista matchups, Kalista is the better champ with a similar win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during team fights.
K'Sante is a decent counter for Kalista. Focus your tactics on keeping up your CS and clearing objectives. If you do that, you should hold your own as K'Sante against Kalista.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master K'Sante to counter Kalista during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to learn a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you mind the build and stats shown here, you will increase your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
K'Sante typically picks up a similar amount of CS relative to Kalista. Champs who on average don't acquire many minion kills often don't have to have much CS to be effective, such as supports. These kinds of champions are able to scale well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, often have to have many items to be effective. In either case, try to exceed the numbers displayed on this page to do well.
The most important items to have in your K'Sante versus Kalista build include Thornmail, Iceborn Gauntlet, and Jak'Sho, The Protean. When K'Sante included at least these three items in their build, they performed much better vs. Kalista than with most other common item sets. In fact, K'Sante boasted an average winrate of 50.0% battling Kalista with these items in their kit.
To have the highest likelihood of crushing Kalista as K'Sante, K'Sante players should equip 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 sets players used for K'Sante vs Kalista LoL games, this set of runes yielded the highest win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 50.0% winrate overall.
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