Leona vs K'Sante
How to Beat K'Sante as Leona
based on 2,090 Leona vs K'Sante matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Leona vs K'Sante Matchup Summary
Best Leona vs K'Sante Counter Build
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Guide to Countering K'Sante as Leona
Tips for Playing as Leona against K'Sante
Shield of Daybreak and Zenith Blade form a powerful offensive combo.
Lead the charge and mark your foes with Sunlight before your allies deal damage.
You can absorb a huge amount of damage using Eclipse, but you must stay near enemies to gain the bonus duration.
Advice to Win Against K'Sante
Stay spread out to minimize the impact of Lee Sin's ultimate, Dragon's Rage.
Lee Sin relies heavily on following up with his abilities. Use disables to prevent him from chaining together his abilities and attacks.
Lee Sin has powerful tools to combat physical damage in Iron Will and Cripple but he is still vulnerable to magic damage.
Leona vs K'Sante Counter Stats
How to Counter K'Sante with Leona in LoL
The stat comparisons provided here feature some important Leona against K'Sante counter stats that may help you appreciate the differences between this set of champs. Leona’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than K'Sante’s ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Leona may be more central to her team's team fighting potential than K'Sante. This observation is largely fueled by the differences in assists.
Leona often has a slightly smaller longest kill spree than her opponent does. On average, she takes less damage than K'Sante. This typically indicates different amounts of tankyness; however, it can also hint that the champion with increased HP has less agility and thus is unable to kite away from additional harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Leona and K'Sante
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Who is Better, Leona or K'Sante?
Both LoL champions are great. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Leona usually wins when playing against K'Sante, with a 55.3% win rate. Thus, Leona makes a fantastic counter for K'Sante.
While Leona does have a much higher win rate compared to K'Sante, when they face off with one another, Leona also has a much lower level of difficulty that makes her a less complex character to pick up and master. You don't need to be too worried when picking Leona into K'Sante.
Additionally, Leona has a great deal of utility and CC, a similar amount to K'Sante. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when trying to counter champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion in League of Legends, in Leona vs K'Sante matchups, Leona is the better champion with a noticably higher win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during late stage team fights.
Leona is a great counter to K'Sante. You will do well by focussing your actions on increasing your CS and taking out objectives. If you do that, you should do very well as Leona against K'Sante.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Leona to counter K'Sante during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to pick up a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you listen to the build and tips displayed above, you should increase your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Leona often accumulates a lot less CS relative to K'Sante. Champions who typically don't get much CS often don't require much CS to be effective, such as support champions. They are capable of scaling properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically need many items to be effective. In either situation, try to exceed the values displayed here to do well.
The most crucial items to prioritize in your Leona versus K'Sante build consist of Zeke's Convergence, Thornmail, and Solstice Sleigh. When Leona included at least these three pieces in her build, she did significantly better against K'Sante than with many other commonly used counter builds. In fact, Leona had an average winrate of 55.3% battling K'Sante with this build.
To have the greatest probability of annihilating K'Sante as Leona, Leona players should equip the Aftershock, Font of Life, Bone Plating, Unflinching, Biscuit Delivery, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Resolve and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations that we analyzed for Leona vs K'Sante fights, this combo of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 55.3% winrate overall.
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