Alistar vs K'Sante
How to Beat K'Sante as Alistar
based on 1,151 Alistar vs K'Sante matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Alistar vs K'Sante Matchup Summary
Best Alistar vs K'Sante Counter Build
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Guide to Countering K'Sante as Alistar
Tips for Playing as Alistar against K'Sante
Using Flash can allow you catch your target off guard to knock them back into your allies with Pulverize and Headbutt.
Move Speed is very important on Alistar. Consider which boots to buy carefully.
Using Pulverize can allow you to establish better positioning for Headbutt.
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.
Alistar vs K'Sante Counter Stats
How to Counter K'Sante with Alistar in LoL
The stats shown here show several important Alistar versus K'Sante matchup stats that can help us grasp the differences between the two. As an example, Alistar’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than K'Sante’s KDA ratio of NaN, indicating that Alistar may be more central to his team's team fighting capacity than K'Sante. This observation is largely a result of the differences in assists.
Alistar typically has a slightly smaller longest killing spree than his counter does. Typically, he receives less damage than K'Sante. This is usually reflective of different amounts of tankyness, but it can also indicate that the one champion has less mobility and thus is unable to kite away from further harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Alistar and K'Sante
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Who is Better, Alistar or K'Sante?
Both LoL champs are great. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Alistar usually wins when playing against K'Sante, with a 51.0% win rate. Therefore, Alistar makes a good counter to K'Sante.
While Alistar does have a higher winrate compared to K'Sante, when facing one another, Alistar also has a lower difficulty level that makes him a less difficult champ to pick up and master. You should be careful when picking Alistar into K'Santeas his relative depth means that you may not be able to unleash his full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Moreover, Alistar has a great amount of CC and other utility, 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 one best champion in League of Legends, in Alistar vs K'Sante matchups, Alistar is the better champ with a similar win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during late stage team fights.
Alistar is a decent counter for K'Sante. Focus your strategy on increasing your gold income and clearing objectives. If you can do that, you should hold your own as Alistar against K'Sante.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Alistar to counter K'Sante during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to pick up a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you listen to the build and tips presented above, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Alistar usually accumulates a lot less CS relative to K'Sante. Champions who typically don't get many minion kills usualy don't require much CS to be effective, such as support champions. They are capable of scaling well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually have to have many items to be effective. In either situation, try to surpass the numbers displayed here to do well.
The ideal items to prioritize in your Alistar versus K'Sante build consist of Zeke's Convergence, Locket of the Iron Solari, and Celestial Opposition. When Alistar included at least these three pieces in his build, he performed much better when facing K'Sante than with most other typical item sets. In fact, Alistar had an average win rate of 51.0% when countering K'Sante with these items in his kit.
To have the greatest chance of defeating K'Sante as Alistar, Alistar players should equip the Glacial Augment, Hextech Flashtraption, Biscuit Delivery, Cosmic Insight, Bone Plating, and Unflinching runes from the Inspiration and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the runes players used for Alistar vs K'Sante LoL games, this mix of runes yielded the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 51.0% winrate overall.
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