K'Sante vs Katarina
How to Beat Katarina as K'Sante
based on 2,207 K'Sante vs Katarina matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
K'Sante vs Katarina Matchup Summary
Best K'Sante vs Katarina Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Katarina as K'Sante
Tips for Playing as K'Sante against Katarina
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 Katarina
Katarina's abilities deal magic damage, so even if she's building Attack Damage items, get magic resistance to counter her.
Try to save a disable for when Katarina uses her Death Lotus.
K'Sante vs Katarina Counter Stats
How to Counter Katarina with K'Sante in LoL
The stats shown on this page highlight some important K'Sante versus Katarina matchup statistics that may help you explain the distinctions between the two. For instance, K'Sante’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Katarina’s KDA ratio of NaN, highlighting that K'Sante may be more central to their team's team fighting effectiveness than Katarina..
K'Sante normally has a significantly smaller longest kill spree than their matchup does. Typically, they takes more damage than Katarina. This is usually reflective of different amounts of tankyness, but it can also illustrate that the champ with increased HP has less agility and thus is unable to flee from further harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between K'Sante and Katarina
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Who is Better, K'Sante or Katarina?
Both LoL champions are great champions. Both champs have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, K'Sante usually loses when trying to fight Katarina, with a 48.1% win rate. As a result, K'Sante makes a bad counter to Katarina.
While K'Sante does have a lower winrate compared to Katarina, when on opposite teams, K'Sante also has a greater learning curve that makes them a more challenging character to learn. You should be careful when picking K'Sante into Katarinaas their relative depth means that you may not be able to unleash their full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Additionally, K'Sante has some amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Katarina. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when fighting champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion in League of Legends, in K'Sante vs Katarina matchups, Katarina is the better champ with a lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during teamfights.
K'Sante is a somewhat poor counter to Katarina. Make sure you focus your play on maximizing your gold income and destroying objectives. If you can do that, you should hold your own as K'Sante against Katarina.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master K'Sante in order to counter Katarina during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to gather a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and stats displayed above, you should increase your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
K'Sante usually racks up a similar amount of CS as Katarina. Champs who on average don't take much CS usualy don't require 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, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically require several high cost items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the values shown on this page to do well.
The most crucial items to prioritize in your K'Sante versus Katarina build include Kaenic Rookern, Hollow Radiance, and Jak'Sho, The Protean. When K'Sante used at least these three pieces in their build, they did significantly better countering Katarina than with many other common counter builds. In fact, K'Sante had an average win rate of 48.1% when playing against Katarina with this build.
To have the highest chance of vanquishing Katarina as K'Sante, K'Sante players should equip the Grasp of the Undying, Demolish, Conditioning, Overgrowth, Biscuit Delivery, and Approach Velocity runes from the Resolve and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the runes players picked for K'Sante vs Katarina counter picks, this set of runes resulted in the best win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 48.1% win rate overall.
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