K'Sante vs Malphite
How to Beat Malphite as K'Sante
based on 2,017 K'Sante vs Malphite matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
K'Sante vs Malphite Matchup Summary
Best K'Sante vs Malphite Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Malphite as K'Sante
Tips for Playing as K'Sante against Malphite
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 Malphite
If you're a physical damage character stay behind your allies when fighting Malphite. Ground Slam can significantly reduce your damage output.
Malphite is one of a couple tanks who are capable of jungling. Watch out if he gets Smite.
K'Sante vs Malphite Counter Stats
How to Counter Malphite with K'Sante in LoL
The stat comparisons provided here emphasize some significant K'Sante against Malphite matchup statistics that can help you appreciate the distinctions between the pair. K'Sante’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Malphite’s KDA ratio of NaN, indicating that K'Sante may be more central to their team's team fighting potential than Malphite..
K'Sante typically has a similar longest killing spree as their foe does. Typically, they receives more damage than Malphite. This is usually reflective of differing health capacities, but it can also illustrate that the champ with increased health has less agility and thus is not able to kite away from further damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between K'Sante and Malphite
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Who is Better, K'Sante or Malphite?
Both LoL champs are great. Both champs have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, K'Sante usually loses when taking on Malphite, with a 48.6% win rate. Thus, K'Sante makes a bad counter to Malphite.
While K'Sante does have a lower win rate than Malphite, when on opposite teams, K'Sante also has a much greater learning curve that makes them a more time consuming character to pick up and master. You should be careful when picking K'Sante into Malphiteas their relative depth means that 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 Malphite. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when facing champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion overall in League of Legends, in K'Sante vs Malphite matchups, Malphite 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 somewhat poor counter for Malphite. Make sure you focus your tactics on increasing your CS and clearing objectives. If you are able to do that, you should be able to stand on your own as K'Sante against Malphite.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master K'Sante to counter Malphite 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 tips presented here, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
K'Sante usually accumulates a similar amount of CS compared to Malphite. Champs who typically don't take many minion kills usualy don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are able to scale well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically have to have a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to surpass the values reported here to do well.
The best items to have in your K'Sante versus Malphite build consist of Unending Despair, Hollow Radiance, and Jak'Sho, The Protean. When K'Sante bought at least these three pieces in their build, they did significantly better vs Malphite than with most other common item sets. In fact, K'Sante had an average win rate of 48.6% battling Malphite with this build.
To have the best probability of vanquishing Malphite as K'Sante, you should equip 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 sets players chose for K'Sante vs Malphite counterpicks, this composite of runes yielded the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 48.6% winrate overall.
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