K'Sante vs Alistar
How to Beat Alistar as K'Sante
based on 1,151 K'Sante vs Alistar matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
K'Sante vs Alistar Matchup Summary
Best K'Sante vs Alistar Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Alistar as K'Sante
Tips for Playing as K'Sante against Alistar
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 Alistar
Alistar is very disruptive but very tough - try to target more fragile damage dealers.
When Alistar uses his ultimate, it's often better to move back and wait until the effect wears off before attacking him.
Watch out for the Pulverize-Headbutt combo when around turrets.
K'Sante vs Alistar Counter Stats
How to Counter Alistar with K'Sante in LoL
The stat comparisons shown here underscore some influential K'Sante against Alistar counter statistics that may help us explain the differences between the two. K'Sante’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Alistar’s ratio of NaN, demonstrating that K'Sante may be more central to their team's team fighting potential than Alistar..
K'Sante usually has a slightly larger longest kill spree than their foe does. On average, they receives more damage than Alistar. This often reflects different amounts of tankyness, yet it can also show that the champion with increased health has less agility and thus is unable to flee from additional harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between K'Sante and Alistar
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Who is Better, K'Sante or Alistar?
Both League champs are great. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, K'Sante usually fairs equally well when taking on Alistar, with a 49.0% win rate. Thus, K'Sante makes an ok counter for Alistar.
While K'Sante does have a lower win rate compared to Alistar, when facing one another, K'Sante also has a greater difficulty level that makes them a more challenging champ to develop with. You should be careful when picking K'Sante into Alistaras their relative depth means you may not be able to unleash their full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Furthermore, K'Sante has some amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Alistar. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when fighting champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in K'Sante vs Alistar matchups, Alistar is the better champion with a similar win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during team fights.
K'Sante is a somewhat poor counter for Alistar. Make sure you focus your strategy on maximizing your gold and cs and clearing objectives. If you are able to do that, you should do very well as K'Sante against Alistar.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of K'Sante in order to counter Alistar during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to gather a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you listen to the build and stats presented here, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
K'Sante often picks up much more CS as Alistar. Champs who typically don't acquire much CS typically don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as sup champs. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts 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 numbers shown on this page to do well.
The top items to prioritize in your K'Sante versus Alistar build consist of Thornmail, Iceborn Gauntlet, and Hollow Radiance. When K'Sante bought at least these three pieces in their build, they did significantly better against Alistar than with most other typical builds. In fact, K'Sante had an average winrate of 49.0% battling Alistar with this build.
To have the greatest likelihood of crushing Alistar as K'Sante, you should take the Grasp of the Undying, Demolish, Conditioning, Overgrowth, Biscuit Delivery, and Approach Velocity runes from the Resolve and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the rune combinations we have analyed for K'Sante vs Alistar counter picks, this blending of runes yielded the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 49.0% win rate overall.
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