Malphite vs K'Sante
How to Beat K'Sante as Malphite
based on 2,017 Malphite vs K'Sante matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Malphite vs K'Sante Matchup Summary
Best Malphite vs K'Sante Counter Build
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Guide to Countering K'Sante as Malphite
Tips for Playing as Malphite against K'Sante
Despite his abilities scaling on Armor, some games require Malphite to get Magic Resist. When those games occur, try getting Aegis of the Legion, Mercury's Treads, and Guardian Angel.
Armor naturally reduces the rate that attacks go through Granite Shield, so Brutal Strikes will strengthen the shield against physical damage.
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.
Malphite vs K'Sante Counter Stats
How to Counter K'Sante with Malphite in LoL
The stat comparisons shown here feature some significant Malphite vs. K'Sante matchup stats that may help you interpret the differences between the pair. Malphite’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than K'Sante’s KDA ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Malphite may be more central to his team's team fighting capacity than K'Sante..
Malphite usually has a similar longest killing spree as his opponent does. On average, he receives less damage than K'Sante. This commonly reflects differing health capacities, yet it can also show that the champion with higher health has less mobility and thus is not able to flee from further damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Malphite and K'Sante
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Who is Better, Malphite or K'Sante?
Both League of Legends champions are great champions. Both have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Malphite usually wins when playing against K'Sante, with a 51.4% win rate. Therefore, Malphite makes a good counter to K'Sante.
While Malphite does have a higher win rate compared to K'Sante, when facing one another, Malphite also has a much lower difficulty level that makes him a less challenging champion to pick up and master. You should be careful when picking Malphite into K'Sante.
Additionally, Malphite also has a lot of CC and other utility, a similar amount to K'Sante. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when facing champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion overall in League of Legends, in Malphite vs K'Sante matchups, Malphite is the better champion with a higher win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during team fights.
Malphite is a decent counter for K'Sante. Focus your strategy on maximizing your gold and cs and destroying objectives. If you do that, you should do very well as Malphite against K'Sante.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Malphite in order to counter K'Sante during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to gather a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you listen to the build and suggestions shown above, you should grow your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Malphite on average accumulates a similar amount of CS relative to K'Sante. Champs who typically don't take much CS typically don't require much CS to be effective, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, often have to have many items to be effective. In either case, try to surpass the values reported here to do well.
The best items to use in your Malphite versus K'Sante build include Sunfire Aegis, Thornmail, and Frozen Heart. When Malphite used at least these three pieces in his build, he did a lot better vs K'Sante than with most other commonly used counter builds. In fact, Malphite had an average winrate of 51.4% when playing against K'Sante with this build.
To have the highest probability of crushing K'Sante as Malphite, you should equip the Grasp of the Undying, Shield Bash, Conditioning, Overgrowth, Manaflow Band, and Transcendence runes from the Resolve and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the rune sets players picked for Malphite vs K'Sante counterpicks, this set of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 51.4% win rate overall.
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