K'Sante vs Varus
How to Beat Varus as K'Sante
based on 2,600 K'Sante vs Varus matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
K'Sante vs Varus Matchup Summary
Best K'Sante vs Varus Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Varus as K'Sante
Tips for Playing as K'Sante against Varus
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 Varus
When he gets a kill or assist, Varus temporarily gains Attack Speed and is much more dangerous.
You'll get bound in place if a tendril from Varus' ultimate, Chain of Corruption, reaches you. You can cause the tendril to die however by running far enough away from it.
If you are affected by Blight, Varus' abilities will deal extra damage to you.
K'Sante vs Varus Counter Stats
How to Counter Varus with K'Sante in LoL
The stat comparisons provided here show some vital K'Sante against Varus counter stats that may help you realize the differences between this pair of champs. For instance, K'Sante’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Varus’s ratio of NaN, showing that K'Sante may be more central to their team's team fighting capability than Varus..
K'Sante normally has a slightly smaller longest kill spree than their matchup does. On average, they takes more damage than Varus. This is usually reflective of different amounts of tankyness, but it can also illustrate that the champ with higher HP has less mobility and thus is unable to flee from further harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between K'Sante and Varus
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Who is Better, K'Sante or Varus?
Both LoL champions are great. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, K'Sante usually loses when trying to fight Varus, with a 48.9% win rate. Therefore, K'Sante makes a bad counter for Varus.
While K'Sante does have a lower win rate compared to Varus, when they face off with one another, K'Sante also has a much greater learning curve that makes them a more time consuming character to learn. You should be careful when picking K'Sante into Varusas their relative depth means that you may not be able to reach their full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Moreover, K'Sante has some amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Varus. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when fighting champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion overall in League of Legends, in K'Sante vs Varus matchups, Varus is the better champ with a lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during late stage team fights.
K'Sante is a somewhat poor counter for Varus. You will do well by focussing your actions on keeping up your CS and taking out objectives. If you do that, you should hold your own as K'Sante against Varus.
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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 Varus during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to learn a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you mind the build and tips shown above, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
K'Sante most often picks up a similar amount of CS as Varus. Champs who typically don't get many minion kills usualy don't have to have much CS to be effective, such as supports. 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 have to have many items to be effective. In either situation, try to surpass the values reported here to do well.
The best items to focus on in your K'Sante versus Varus build consist of Thornmail, Hollow Radiance, and Jak'Sho, The Protean. When K'Sante bought at least these three items in their build, they did a lot better countering Varus than with many other typical item sets. In fact, K'Sante had an average win rate of 48.9% when playing against Varus with these items in their kit.
To have the best probability of defeating Varus as K'Sante, you should equip the Grasp of the Undying, Demolish, Conditioning, Overgrowth, Legend: Tenacity, and Triumph runes from the Resolve and Precision rune sets. Of all the rune combinations players chose for K'Sante vs Varus counters, this combination of runes yielded the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 48.9% win rate overall.
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