Illaoi vs K'Sante
How to Beat K'Sante as Illaoi
based on 1,051 Illaoi vs K'Sante matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Illaoi vs K'Sante Matchup Summary
Best Illaoi vs K'Sante Counter Build
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Guide to Countering K'Sante as Illaoi
Tips for Playing as Illaoi against K'Sante
Vessel
Tentacles are an immense source of power. Don't fight without them.
Spirits inherit their target's current health. If making a
is your goal, try whittling your opponent's health down a bit first to make killing the spirit easier.
Leap of Faith is best used to follow-up a strong engage or when being engaged upon. Be careful about being the first one into a fight.
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.
Illaoi vs K'Sante Counter Stats
How to Counter K'Sante with Illaoi in LoL
The stats provided here underscore some strategic Illaoi vs. K'Sante counter stats that may help us understand the distinctions between the pair. As an example, Illaoi’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than K'Sante’s KDA ratio of NaN, indicating that Illaoi may be more central to her team's team fighting capacity than K'Sante..
Illaoi often has a similar longest kill spree as her foe does. On average, she takes more damage than K'Sante. This often reflects different amounts of tankyness, but it can also hint that the champ with more health has less mobility and thus is not able to kite away from further damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Illaoi and K'Sante
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Who is Better, Illaoi or K'Sante?
Both League champions are great. Both have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Illaoi usually wins when playing against K'Sante, with a 57.1% win rate. Therefore, Illaoi makes a fantastic counter to K'Sante.
While Illaoi does have a much higher winrate compared to K'Sante, when facing one another, Illaoi also has a much lower difficulty level that makes her a less time consuming character to pick up and master. You should be be fine when picking Illaoi into K'Sante.
Moreover, Illaoi 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 fighting champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Illaoi vs K'Sante matchups, Illaoi is the better champ with a noticably higher win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during teamfights.
Illaoi is a great counter to K'Sante. Make sure you focus your actions on maximizing your CS and destroying objectives. If you do that, you should hold your own as Illaoi against K'Sante.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Illaoi in order to counter K'Sante during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to gather a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you mind the build and tips shown above, you will grow your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Illaoi typically accumulates a similar amount of CS relative to K'Sante. Champions who on average don't take much CS typically don't have to have much CS to be effective, such as supports. They are able to scale properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically have to have a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to surpass the values displayed on this page to do well.
The top items to prioritize in your Illaoi versus K'Sante build include Sterak's Gage, Black Cleaver, and Sundered Sky. When Illaoi bought at least these three pieces in her build, she performed much better vs K'Sante than with many other commonly used builds. In fact, Illaoi had an average win rate of 57.1% when countering K'Sante with these items in her kit.
To have the greatest probability of vanquishing K'Sante as Illaoi, Illaoi players should equip the Grasp of the Undying, Demolish, Bone Plating, Overgrowth, Last Stand, and Presence of Mind runes from the Resolve and Precision rune sets. Of all the rune builds that we analyzed for Illaoi vs K'Sante counters, this set of runes yielded the best win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 57.1% winrate overall.
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