K'Sante vs Heimerdinger
How to Beat Heimerdinger as K'Sante
based on 736 K'Sante vs Heimerdinger matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
K'Sante vs Heimerdinger Matchup Summary
Best K'Sante vs Heimerdinger Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Heimerdinger as K'Sante
Tips for Playing as K'Sante against Heimerdinger
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 Heimerdinger
Be wary of Heimerdinger's Upgrade!!!, as he can use it to find an answer to most trouble he gets into. Once his ultimate is down, go in for the kill!
It's better to destroy all of Heimerdinger's turrets at once with the help of creeps than to fight them one at a time.
K'Sante vs Heimerdinger Counter Stats
How to Counter Heimerdinger with K'Sante in LoL
The stat comparisons provided here underscore several influential K'Sante against Heimerdinger counter stats that can help us distinguish the differences between these two champs. K'Sante’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Heimerdinger’s ratio of NaN, demonstrating that K'Sante may be more central to their team's team fighting capability than Heimerdinger..
K'Sante typically has a similar longest killing spree as their enemy does. On average, they receives more damage than Heimerdinger. This is usually reflective of different amounts of tankyness; however, it can also illustrate that the champion with higher health has less mobility and thus is unable to flee from further damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between K'Sante and Heimerdinger
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Who is Better, K'Sante or Heimerdinger?
Both League champions are great champions. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, K'Sante usually loses when taking on Heimerdinger, with a 46.5% win rate. Therefore, K'Sante makes a bad counter for Heimerdinger.
While K'Sante does have a lower win rate compared to Heimerdinger, when facing one another, K'Sante also has a greater level of difficulty that makes them a more time consuming champion to develop with. You should expect to face a difficult match when picking K'Sante into Heimerdingeras their relative depth means you may not be able to unleash their full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Furthermore, K'Sante also has some amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Heimerdinger. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when facing champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in K'Sante vs Heimerdinger matchups, Heimerdinger 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 late stage team fights.
K'Sante is a terribly counter for Heimerdinger. Make sure you focus your strategy on increasing your gold income and clearing objectives. If you are able to do that, you should hold your own as K'Sante against Heimerdinger.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master K'Sante in order to counter Heimerdinger during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to pick up a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you mind the build and tips shown above, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
K'Sante on average accumulates a similar amount of CS as Heimerdinger. Champions who on average don't take many minion kills often don't need much CS to be effective, such as support champions. They are capable of scaling properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually need a lot of items to be effective. In either situation, try to exceed the values displayed here to do well.
The most important items to prioritize in your K'Sante versus Heimerdinger build consist of Kaenic Rookern, Iceborn Gauntlet, and Jak'Sho, The Protean. When K'Sante bought at least these three items in their build, they performed a lot better vs Heimerdinger than with many other common builds. In fact, K'Sante had an average winrate of 46.5% when countering Heimerdinger with this build.
To have the best likelihood of defeating Heimerdinger as K'Sante, K'Sante players should equip the Grasp of the Undying, Demolish, Conditioning, Overgrowth, Approach Velocity, and Biscuit Delivery runes from the Resolve and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the rune builds players used for K'Sante vs Heimerdinger counter picks, this order of runes yielded the highest win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 46.5% win rate overall.
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