K'Sante vs Master Yi
How to Beat Master Yi as K'Sante
based on 2,675 K'Sante vs Master Yi matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
K'Sante vs Master Yi Matchup Summary
Best K'Sante vs Master Yi Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Master Yi as K'Sante
Tips for Playing as K'Sante against Master Yi
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 Master Yi
If Master Yi tries to farm with Alpha Strike, hit him a few times so he has to use mana with Meditate to heal.
Although Master Yi cannot be slowed while using Highlander, other disables can stop him in his tracks.
Meditate is an effective method of healing damage over time, but Master Yi is susceptible to coordinated team ganks early in the game.
K'Sante vs Master Yi Counter Stats
How to Counter Master Yi with K'Sante in LoL
The stats provided here emphasize some significant K'Sante against Master Yi counter stats that can help us figure out the differences and similarities between the two. For instance, K'Sante’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Master Yi’s ratio of NaN, showing that K'Sante may be more central to their team's team fighting potential than Master Yi..
K'Sante normally has a slightly smaller longest killing spree than their enemy does. Commonly, they receives a similar amount of damage to Master Yi. This is usually reflective of differing health capacities, but it can also indicate that the champ with higher health has less agility and thus is not able to escape additional damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between K'Sante and Master Yi
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Who is Better, K'Sante or Master Yi?
Both League of Legends champions are great. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, K'Sante usually loses when facing off against Master Yi, with a 46.9% win rate. Therefore, K'Sante makes a bad counter to Master Yi.
While K'Sante does have a lower win rate compared to Master Yi, when facing one another, K'Sante also has a much greater difficulty level that makes them a more difficult champ to learn. You may get destroyed when picking K'Sante into Master Yias their relative depth means you may not be able to unleash their full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Additionally, K'Sante has some amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Master Yi. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when facing champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion in League of Legends, in K'Sante vs Master Yi matchups, Master Yi 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 team fights.
K'Sante is a trash counter for Master Yi. Focus your tactics on increasing your gold income and destroying objectives. If you can do that, you should be able to stand on your own as K'Sante against Master Yi.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master K'Sante in order to counter Master Yi during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you mind the build and stats displayed above, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
K'Sante on average racks up much more CS as Master Yi. Champions who typically don't acquire many minion kills often don't require much CS to be effective, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are able to scale well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically require a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to surpass the numbers shown here to do well.
The best items to prioritize in your K'Sante versus Master Yi build consist of Frozen Heart, Iceborn Gauntlet, and Jak'Sho, The Protean. When K'Sante used at least these three items in their build, they performed much better vs. Master Yi than with many other commonly used builds. In fact, K'Sante boasted an average winrate of 46.9% when playing against Master Yi with these items in their kit.
To have the best chance of crushing Master Yi as K'Sante, K'Sante players should use 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 that we analyzed for K'Sante vs Master Yi matchups, this combination of runes yielded the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 46.9% win rate overall.
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