K'Sante vs Azir
How to Beat Azir as K'Sante
based on 1,120 K'Sante vs Azir matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
K'Sante vs Azir Matchup Summary
Best K'Sante vs Azir Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Azir as K'Sante
Tips for Playing as K'Sante against Azir
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 Azir
Try to think of Sand Soldiers as fire. Don't stand in the fire.
Azir relies on his soldiers to deal damage and can only move them so often. Try to capitalize on windows of time when his soldiers are stationary.
Azir has immense damage over a prolonged amount of time but lacks the upfront burst of other mages. Try to burst him out before he can turn a confrontation around.
K'Sante vs Azir Counter Stats
How to Counter Azir with K'Sante in LoL
The stat comparisons provided here feature some critical K'Sante vs. Azir matchup stats that may help you realize the distinctions between the pair. As an example, K'Sante’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Azir’s ratio of NaN, indicating that K'Sante may be more central to their team's team fighting capacity than Azir..
K'Sante often has a slightly smaller longest killing spree than their foe does. Commonly, they receives more damage than Azir. This typically indicates different amounts of tankyness, but it can also imply that the one champion has less mobility and thus is not able to kite away from additional damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between K'Sante and Azir
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Who is Better, K'Sante or Azir?
Both LoL champs are great champions. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, K'Sante usually loses when taking on Azir, with a 47.0% win rate. Therefore, K'Sante makes a bad counter to Azir.
While K'Sante does have a lower win rate compared to Azir, when facing one another, K'Sante also has a greater learning curve that makes them a more challenging character to learn and master. You may get destroyed when picking K'Sante into Aziras their relative depth means that you may not be able to reach their full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Furthermore, K'Sante has some amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Azir. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when facing champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion in League of Legends, in K'Sante vs Azir matchups, Azir is the better champion with a much lower win rate, similar champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during late stage team fights.
K'Sante is a garbage counter to Azir. You will do well by focussing your tactics on keeping up your CS and clearing objectives. If you can do that, you should be able to stand on your own as K'Sante against Azir.
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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 Azir during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to learn a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you mind the build and stats displayed above, you should grow your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
K'Sante most often accumulates a similar amount of CS relative to Azir. Champs who typically don't get much CS usualy don't have to have much CS to be valuable teammates, such as sup champs. These kinds of champions are able to scale properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, often require several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to exceed the numbers reported here to do well.
The best items to use in your K'Sante versus Azir build include Thornmail, Iceborn Gauntlet, and Jak'Sho, The Protean. When K'Sante included at least these three items in their build, they did a lot better against Azir than with most other commonly used item sets. In fact, K'Sante had an average winrate of 47.0% battling Azir with this counter build.
To have the greatest chance of annihilating Azir as K'Sante, you should take 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 runes players chose for K'Sante vs Azir face-offs, this mixture of runes yielded the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 47.0% winrate overall.
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