Zed vs K'Sante
How to Beat K'Sante as Zed
based on 2,227 Zed vs K'Sante matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Zed vs K'Sante Matchup Summary
Best Zed vs K'Sante Counter Build
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Guide to Countering K'Sante as Zed
Tips for Playing as Zed against K'Sante
Placing a Living Shadow before using Death Mark can give Zed a safe escape from combat.
Saving energy and spell cooldowns until you use your ultimate will maximize Death Mark's damage.
Quickly double tapping Living Shadow will teleport Zed to his shadow immediately for rapid escapes.
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.
Zed vs K'Sante Counter Stats
How to Counter K'Sante with Zed in LoL
The stat comparisons shown here emphasize some critical Zed against K'Sante matchup statistics that can help you distinguish the differences between the two. Zed’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than K'Sante’s KDA ratio of NaN, showing that Zed may be more central to his team's team fighting potential than K'Sante. This observation is largely fueled by the difference in kills.
Zed normally has a much larger longest kill spree than his matchup does. Commonly, he receives less damage than K'Sante. This commonly reflects differing health capacities; however, it can also hint that the one champ has less agility and thus is not able to flee from further harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Zed and K'Sante
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Who is Better, Zed or K'Sante?
Both LoL champions are great. Both have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Zed usually fairs equally well when taking on K'Sante, with a 50.8% win rate. Thus, Zed makes an ok counter to K'Sante.
While Zed does have a higher winrate compared to K'Sante, when facing one another, Zed also has a lower difficulty level that makes him a less difficult champ to learn and master. You still need to be cautious when picking Zed into K'Santeas his relative depth means you may not be able to reach his full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Additionally, Zed also has only a small amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to K'Sante. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when facing champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion in League of Legends, in Zed vs K'Sante matchups, Zed is the better champion with a similar win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during team fights.
Zed is a decent counter for K'Sante. You will do well by focussing your actions on maximizing your CS and taking out objectives. If you are able to do that, you should hold your own as Zed against K'Sante.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Zed in order to counter K'Sante during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to gather a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you listen to the build and tips shown above, you will increase your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Zed on average racks up a similar amount of CS relative to K'Sante. Champs who on average don't get much CS typically don't require much CS to be effective, such as supports. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically have to have several high cost items to be effective. In either situation, try to exceed the values shown here to do well.
The best items to prioritize in your Zed versus K'Sante build include Serylda's Grudge, Axiom Arc, and Voltaic Cyclosword. When Zed combined at least these three items in his build, he did a lot better vs. K'Sante than with most other common builds. In fact, Zed boasted an average winrate of 50.8% battling K'Sante with these items in his kit.
To have the best likelihood of crushing K'Sante as Zed, you should take the Electrocute, Taste of Blood, Eyeball Collection, Ultimate Hunter, Transcendence, and Scorch runes from the Domination and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the rune sets players picked for Zed vs K'Sante counter picks, this composite of runes resulted in the best win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 50.8% winrate overall.
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