K'Sante vs Yasuo
How to Beat Yasuo as K'Sante
based on 4,079 K'Sante vs Yasuo matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
K'Sante vs Yasuo Matchup Summary
Best K'Sante vs Yasuo Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Yasuo as K'Sante
Tips for Playing as K'Sante against Yasuo
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 Yasuo
Yasuo's shield from Resolve lasts only 2 seconds. Dealing damage to him will trigger it. Wait it out, then engage.
Steel Tempest is very narrow. Dodge laterally if possible.
Yasuo is at his weakest just after he has launched a whirlwind. Engage at that point.
When Yasuo lands two Steel Tempests in a row, his next will fire a tornado. Watch and listen for the associated sound to prepare to dodge.
K'Sante vs Yasuo Counter Stats
How to Counter Yasuo with K'Sante in LoL
The stats shown here underscore several significant K'Sante against Yasuo matchup stats that may help us realize the differences between these two champs. For instance, K'Sante’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Yasuo’s KDA ratio of NaN, showing that K'Sante may be more central to their team's team fighting capacity than Yasuo..
K'Sante often has a slightly smaller longest killing spree than their enemy does. Typically, they receives more damage than Yasuo. This commonly reflects differing health capacities, yet it can also indicate that the champ with more health has less mobility and thus is not able to flee from additional harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between K'Sante and Yasuo
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Who is Better, K'Sante or Yasuo?
Both League of Legends champions are great champions. Both champs have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, K'Sante usually loses when trying to fight Yasuo, with a 46.8% win rate. Thus, K'Sante makes a poor counter to Yasuo.
While K'Sante does have a lower winrate than Yasuo, when they face off with one another, K'Sante also has a lower difficulty level that makes them a less complex champion to develop with. You should expect to face a difficult match when picking K'Sante into Yasuoas 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 Yasuo. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when fighting champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in K'Sante vs Yasuo matchups, Yasuo is the better champion with a much lower win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during late stage team fights.
K'Sante is a terribly counter to Yasuo. You will do well by focussing your strategy on keeping up your CS and taking out objectives. If you are able to do that, you should do very well as K'Sante against Yasuo.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of K'Sante in order to counter Yasuo during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to gather a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you mind the build and suggestions presented above, you should increase your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
K'Sante typically picks up a similar amount of CS compared to Yasuo. Champs who typically don't get much CS typically don't need much CS to be effective, such as support champions. They 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, often need many items to be effective. In either case, try to surpass the numbers shown here to do well.
The most important items to have in your K'Sante versus Yasuo build include Unending Despair, Iceborn Gauntlet, and Jak'Sho, The Protean. When K'Sante incorporated at least these three pieces in their build, they did a lot better vs. Yasuo than with many other commonly used item sets. In fact, K'Sante had an average win rate of 46.8% battling Yasuo with this build.
To have the greatest chance of annihilating Yasuo as K'Sante, you should use 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 picked for K'Sante vs Yasuo battles, this sequence of runes yielded the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 46.8% win rate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to beat Yasuo as K'Sante are given for all ranked divisions combined. If you want to scope the statistics and builds to a particular player tier, you may use the selection menu earlier in the counter matchup guide.