K'Sante vs Samira
How to Beat Samira as K'Sante
based on 2,653 K'Sante vs Samira matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
K'Sante vs Samira Matchup Summary
Best K'Sante vs Samira Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Samira as K'Sante
Tips for Playing as K'Sante against Samira
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).
K'Sante vs Samira Counter Stats
How to Counter Samira with K'Sante in LoL
The stat comparisons shown here show some critical K'Sante against Samira matchup stats that may help us figure out the differences between the two. For instance, K'Sante’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Samira’s KDA ratio of NaN, showing that K'Sante may be more central to their team's team fighting potential than Samira..
K'Sante typically has a significantly smaller longest kill spree than their matchup does. Typically, they receives more damage than Samira. This commonly reflects differing health capacities, yet it can also hint that the one champ has less mobility and thus is unable to flee from further harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between K'Sante and Samira
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Who is Better, K'Sante or Samira?
Both League champs are great champions. Both champs have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, K'Sante usually loses when trying to fight Samira, with a 47.5% win rate. Thus, K'Sante makes a poor counter for Samira.
While K'Sante does have a lower win rate compared to Samira, when on opposite teams, K'Sante also has a much greater difficulty level that makes them a more challenging champion to learn. You should expect to face a difficult match when picking K'Sante into Samiraas 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 Samira. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when fighting champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in K'Sante vs Samira matchups, Samira 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 late stage team fights.
K'Sante is a trash counter to Samira. Make sure you focus your play on maximizing your CS and taking out objectives. If you can do that, you should hold your own as K'Sante against Samira.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of K'Sante in order to counter Samira during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to gather a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you mind the build and suggestions displayed above, you will grow your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
K'Sante most often racks up a similar amount of CS relative to Samira. Champs who typically don't acquire many minion kills usualy don't have to have much CS to be effective, such as sup champs. They are able to scale properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, often require many items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the numbers shown on this page to do well.
The most important items to focus on in your K'Sante versus Samira build include Sunfire Aegis, Thornmail, and Iceborn Gauntlet. When K'Sante bought at least these three pieces in their build, they performed much better against Samira than with most other commonly used item sets. In fact, K'Sante had an average win rate of 47.5% when playing against Samira with this counter build.
To have the best probability of vanquishing Samira as K'Sante, K'Sante players should take the Grasp of the Undying, Demolish, Conditioning, Overgrowth, Legend: Tenacity, and Triumph runes from the Resolve and Precision rune sets. Out of all the rune sets players chose for K'Sante vs Samira clashes, this mixture of runes yielded the best win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 47.5% win rate overall.
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