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).
Try to gank Anivia when she's laning. With multiple people, it is easier to ensure that her egg dies.
If you're playing a ranged champion, stay far enough away from Anivia so you can dodge Flash Frost more easily.
Try to fight Anivia in the lanes. In the jungle she can block pathways with lower ranks of Crystallize.
The stat comparisons provided here feature several strategic K'Sante vs. Anivia matchup statistics that may help us realize the distinctions between this set of champions. For instance, K'Sante’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Anivia’s KDA ratio of NaN, demonstrating that K'Sante may be more central to their team's team fighting potential than Anivia..
K'Sante often has a similar longest killing spree as their counter does. On average, they receives more damage than Anivia. This is usually reflective of differing health capacities; however, it can also imply that the champion with higher HP has less agility and thus is unable to kite away from additional damage when engaged or poked.
Both League of Legends champs are great champions. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, K'Sante usually loses when facing off against Anivia, with a 46.8% win rate. Therefore, K'Sante makes a bad counter for Anivia.
While K'Sante does have a lower win rate compared to Anivia, when facing one another, K'Sante also has a lower learning curve that makes them a less complex character to learn. You may get destroyed when picking K'Sante into Aniviaas their relative depth means that you may not be able to unleash their full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Furthermore, K'Sante has some amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Anivia. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when fighting champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion in League of Legends, in K'Sante vs Anivia matchups, Anivia is the better champ with a much lower win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during late stage team fights.
K'Sante is a bad counter for Anivia. Make sure you focus your strategy on keeping up your gold income and taking out objectives. If you are able to do that, you should be able to stand on your own as K'Sante against Anivia.
To truly master K'Sante in order to counter Anivia during both the lane 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 pay attention to the build and suggestions displayed above, you will grow your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
K'Sante on average gets a similar amount of CS relative to Anivia. Champs who on average don't acquire much CS typically don't have to have much CS to be effective, such as support champions. They are capable of scaling properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically require several high cost items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the numbers shown here to do well.
The ideal items to use in your K'Sante versus Anivia build include Sunfire Aegis, Iceborn Gauntlet, and Jak'Sho, The Protean. When K'Sante bought at least these three pieces in their build, they performed a lot better vs. Anivia than with most other typical item sets. In fact, K'Sante had an average winrate of 46.8% when playing against Anivia with these items in their kit.
To have the highest probability of vanquishing Anivia as K'Sante, you should equip the Grasp of the Undying, Demolish, Conditioning, Overgrowth, Approach Velocity, and Biscuit Delivery runes from the Resolve and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the rune sets players picked for K'Sante vs Anivia matchups, this set of runes resulted in the highest win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 46.8% winrate overall.
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