K'Sante vs Akali
How to Beat Akali as K'Sante
based on 3,427 K'Sante vs Akali matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
K'Sante vs Akali Matchup Summary
Best K'Sante vs Akali Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Akali as K'Sante
Tips for Playing as K'Sante against Akali
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).
Advice to Win Against Akali
Akali's Five Point Strike is powerful when used at maximum range and energy. Engage on her when she has low energy to maximize your chance of winning trades.
Return to base if your Health is low and Akali has her ultimate available.
Akali can still be hit by area effect spells while obscured inside Twilight Shroud. Doing so will briefly reveal her position.
K'Sante vs Akali Counter Stats
How to Counter Akali with K'Sante in LoL
The stat comparisons shown here feature some valuable K'Sante versus Akali matchup stats that may help you appreciate the differences and similarities between this set of champions. K'Sante’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Akali’s KDA ratio of NaN, highlighting that K'Sante may be more central to their team's team fighting capacity than Akali..
K'Sante typically has a significantly smaller longest killing spree than their matchup does. On average, they takes more damage than Akali. This typically indicates differing health capacities, yet it can also hint that the champ with more health has less mobility and thus is unable to kite away from further harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between K'Sante and Akali
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Who is Better, K'Sante or Akali?
Both League of Legends champions are great champions. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, K'Sante usually loses when trying to fight Akali, with a 47.4% win rate. Thus, K'Sante makes a bad counter to Akali.
While K'Sante does have a lower winrate than Akali, when on opposite teams, K'Sante also has a greater difficulty level that makes them a more challenging champ to pick up and master. You should expect to face a difficult match when picking K'Sante into Akalias their relative depth means you may not be able to reach their full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Furthermore, K'Sante has some amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Akali. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when trying to counter champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in K'Sante vs Akali matchups, Akali is the better champion with a lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during late stage team fights.
K'Sante is a garbage counter to Akali. Make sure you focus your strategy on keeping up your gold and cs and taking out objectives. If you do that, you should hold your own as K'Sante against Akali.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of K'Sante to counter Akali during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to learn a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you listen to the build and tips displayed here, you will grow your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
K'Sante typically accumulates a similar amount of CS compared to Akali. 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 capable of scaling properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, often require a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to exceed the numbers displayed on this page to do well.
The most crucial items to use in your K'Sante versus Akali build include Unending Despair, Sunfire Aegis, and Jak'Sho, The Protean. When K'Sante combined at least these three pieces in their build, they performed significantly better vs Akali than with many other common item sets. In fact, K'Sante had an average winrate of 47.4% battling Akali with these items in their kit.
To have the best chance of vanquishing Akali as K'Sante, K'Sante players should equip the Grasp of the Undying, Demolish, Conditioning, Overgrowth, Biscuit Delivery, and Approach Velocity runes from the Resolve and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations that we analyzed for K'Sante vs Akali face-offs, this order of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 47.4% winrate overall.
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