K'Sante vs Kindred
How to Beat Kindred as K'Sante
based on 1,189 K'Sante vs Kindred matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
K'Sante vs Kindred Matchup Summary
Best K'Sante vs Kindred Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Kindred as K'Sante
Tips for Playing as K'Sante against Kindred
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 Kindred
When Kindred uses Lamb's Respite get inside, it stops all champions from dying.
Kindred is fragile - turn the pressure up on her, and she will be forced to play cautiously.
Clear the Hunts Wolf activates on jungle camps to slow down Kindred's damage output.
K'Sante vs Kindred Counter Stats
How to Counter Kindred with K'Sante in LoL
The stats provided here underscore some valuable K'Sante against Kindred counter stats that can help us realize the differences between the pair. As an example, K'Sante’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Kindred’s ratio of NaN, showing that K'Sante may be more central to their team's team fighting potential than Kindred..
K'Sante usually has a slightly smaller longest kill spree than their foe does. Typically, they receives a similar amount of damage to Kindred. This often reflects different amounts of tankyness, yet it can also imply that the one champ has less agility and thus is not able to escape further damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between K'Sante and Kindred
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Who is Better, K'Sante or Kindred?
Both League champions are great champions. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, K'Sante usually loses when playing against Kindred, with a 46.3% win rate. Therefore, K'Sante makes a bad counter to Kindred.
While K'Sante does have a lower winrate compared to Kindred, when they face off with one another, K'Sante also has a much greater level of difficulty that makes them a more time consuming champion to pick up and master. You may get destroyed when picking K'Sante into Kindredas their relative depth means you may not be able to unleash their full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Moreover, K'Sante also has some amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Kindred. This 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 Kindred matchups, Kindred is the better champ with a much lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during late stage team fights.
K'Sante is a trash counter to Kindred. Make sure you focus your strategy on increasing your gold income and destroying objectives. If you do that, you should be able to stand on your own as K'Sante against Kindred.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of K'Sante to counter Kindred during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to gather a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and stats displayed here, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
K'Sante usually gets much more CS relative to Kindred. Champs who on average don't acquire much CS typically don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as supports. They are able to scale well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, often need several high cost items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the numbers displayed here to do well.
The ideal items to use in your K'Sante versus Kindred build include Sunfire Aegis, Thornmail, and Iceborn Gauntlet. When K'Sante bought at least these three pieces in their build, they did significantly better against Kindred than with most other common counter builds. In fact, K'Sante had an average winrate of 46.3% battling Kindred with this build.
To have the best chance of defeating Kindred as K'Sante, you should take the Grasp of the Undying, Demolish, Conditioning, Overgrowth, Approach Velocity, and Biscuit Delivery runes from the Resolve and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the rune builds players chose for K'Sante vs Kindred fights, this order of runes yielded the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 46.3% winrate overall.
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