Akali vs K'Sante
How to Beat K'Sante as Akali
based on 3,427 Akali vs K'Sante matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Akali vs K'Sante Matchup Summary
Best Akali vs K'Sante Counter Build
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Guide to Countering K'Sante as Akali
Tips for Playing as Akali against K'Sante
Akali excels at killing fragile champions. Let your team initiate and then strike at the people in the back.
Twilight Shroud offers safety in even the most dangerous situations. Use that time to save up energy for a quick strike later.
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.
Akali vs K'Sante Counter Stats
How to Counter K'Sante with Akali in LoL
The stats shown on this page underscore some vital Akali vs. K'Sante counter stats that can help us appreciate the differences and similarities between this set of champions. For instance, Akali’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than K'Sante’s KDA ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Akali may be more central to her team's team fighting effectiveness than K'Sante. This observation is in large part caused by the difference in kills.
Akali often has a much larger longest kill spree than her counter does. Commonly, she takes less damage than K'Sante. This often reflects differing health capacities; however, it can also show that the one champ has less mobility and thus is not able to flee from further damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Akali and K'Sante
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Who is Better, Akali or K'Sante?
Both LoL champs are great. Both champs have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Akali usually wins when taking on K'Sante, with a 52.6% win rate. Thus, Akali makes a good counter for K'Sante.
While Akali does have a higher winrate compared to K'Sante, when facing one another, Akali also has a lower learning curve that makes her a less complex champion to pick up and master. You don't need to be too worried when picking Akali into K'Santeas her relative depth means you may not be able to reach her full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Additionally, Akali also has almost no amount 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 one best champion overall in League of Legends, in Akali vs K'Sante matchups, Akali is the better champion with a noticably higher win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during team fights.
Akali is an above average counter to K'Sante. Focus your play on keeping up your gold income and clearing objectives. If you can do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Akali against K'Sante.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Akali in order to counter K'Sante during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you listen to the build and suggestions presented above, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Akali most often racks up a similar amount of CS compared to K'Sante. Champs who typically don't get many minion kills usualy don't have to have much CS to be valuable teammates, such as sup champs. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically have to have several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to surpass the values shown on this page to do well.
The top items to focus on in your Akali versus K'Sante build consist of Rabadon's Deathcap, Hextech Rocketbelt, and Shadowflame. When Akali incorporated at least these three items in her build, she performed much better vs K'Sante than with many other common counter builds. In fact, Akali had an average winrate of 52.6% when countering K'Sante with this counter build.
To have the greatest probability of vanquishing K'Sante as Akali, you should use the Electrocute, Sudden Impact, Eyeball Collection, Ultimate Hunter, Overgrowth, and Second Wind runes from the Domination and Resolve rune sets. Of all the runes players picked for Akali vs K'Sante clashes, this order of runes resulted in the best win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 52.6% winrate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to beat K'Sante as Akali are given for all ranked divisions combined. To scope the statistics and builds to a specific rank, you can use the selection menu located earlier on the page.