Take advantage of Flurry by weaving in basic attacks between spell casts - this maximizes damage output and minimizes Energy loss.
Use Sonic Wave before Dragon's Rage so you can chase the target with Resonating Strike.
Self-casting Safeguard and using Iron Will are powerful tools for killing neutral monsters (in the jungle).
Aatrox's Infernal Chains are easier to exit when running towards the sides or at Aatrox.
Aatrox's attacks are very telegraphed, so use the time to dodge the hit zones.
Keep your distance when Aatrox uses his Ultimate to prevent him from reviving.
The stat comparisons provided here underscore some important K'Sante vs. Aatrox counter stats that can help us understand the distinctions between the pair. K'Sante’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Aatrox’s ratio of NaN, demonstrating that K'Sante may be more central to their team's team fighting potential than Aatrox..
K'Sante normally has a similar longest kill spree as their matchup does. Typically, they takes less damage than Aatrox. This is usually reflective of differing health capacities; however, it can also show that the one champion has less mobility and thus is unable to kite away from additional harm when engaged or poked.
Both LoL champs are great champions. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, K'Sante usually loses when taking on Aatrox, with a 47.0% win rate. Therefore, K'Sante makes a poor counter for Aatrox.
While K'Sante does have a lower winrate compared to Aatrox, when they face off with one another, K'Sante also has a much greater level of difficulty that makes them a more complex champion to learn. You may get destroyed when picking K'Sante into Aatroxas their relative depth means you may not be able to reach their full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Furthermore, K'Sante also has some amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Aatrox. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when trying to counter champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion in League of Legends, in K'Sante vs Aatrox matchups, Aatrox is the better champion with a much lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during teamfights.
K'Sante is a trash counter to Aatrox. You will do well by focussing your strategy on increasing your gold and cs and clearing objectives. If you can do that, you should hold your own as K'Sante against Aatrox.
To truly master K'Sante to counter Aatrox during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you listen to the build and suggestions displayed above, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
K'Sante usually racks up a similar amount of CS compared to Aatrox. Champions who typically don't acquire many minion kills usualy don't have to have much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are able to scale well 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 do better than the values displayed here to do well.
The best items to use in your K'Sante versus Aatrox build include Iceborn Gauntlet, Hollow Radiance, and Jak'Sho, The Protean. When K'Sante used at least these three items in their build, they performed a lot better when facing Aatrox than with most other typical builds. In fact, K'Sante had an average win rate of 47.0% battling Aatrox with this counter build.
To have the best chance of vanquishing Aatrox as K'Sante, you should take the Grasp of the Undying, Demolish, Second Wind, Overgrowth, Biscuit Delivery, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Resolve and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the rune builds that we analyzed for K'Sante vs Aatrox counter picks, this combination of runes resulted in the best win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 47.0% win rate overall.
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