K'Sante vs Kayn
How to Beat Kayn as K'Sante
based on 2,677 K'Sante vs Kayn matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
K'Sante vs Kayn Matchup Summary
Best K'Sante vs Kayn Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Kayn as K'Sante
Tips for Playing as K'Sante against Kayn
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 Kayn
When Kayn is in terrain near you, you will get a visual warning on the edge of the terrain he's in.
Umbral Trespass requires Kayn to damage a target first. Try to dodge Blade's Reach to deny him a long range cast of Umbral Trespass.
Damage Kayn while he's in Shadow Step to shorten its duration, or apply hard crowd control (stun, charm, knockup, etc) to end Shadow Step immediately.
K'Sante vs Kayn Counter Stats
How to Counter Kayn with K'Sante in LoL
The stat comparisons provided here emphasize some valuable K'Sante against Kayn matchup stats that can help you interpret the differences and similarities between the pair. K'Sante’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Kayn’s KDA ratio of NaN, showing that K'Sante may be more central to their team's team fighting capability than Kayn..
K'Sante often has a slightly smaller longest kill spree than their matchup does. Typically, they takes less damage than Kayn. This typically indicates different amounts of tankyness, but it can also show that the champion with higher health has less agility and thus is not able to flee from additional damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between K'Sante and Kayn
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Who is Better, K'Sante or Kayn?
Both LoL champs are great. Both have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, K'Sante usually loses when trying to fight Kayn, with a 46.8% win rate. As a result, K'Sante makes a bad counter for Kayn.
While K'Sante does have a lower win rate than Kayn, when they face off with one another, K'Sante also has a greater difficulty level that makes them a more challenging character to pick up and master. You may get destroyed when picking K'Sante into Kaynas their relative depth means you may not be able to reach their full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Additionally, K'Sante also has some amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Kayn. 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 a single best champion overall in League of Legends, in K'Sante vs Kayn matchups, Kayn is the better champion with a much lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during late stage team fights.
K'Sante is a garbage counter to Kayn. Focus your actions on increasing your gold income and destroying objectives. If you do that, you should hold your own as K'Sante against Kayn.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of K'Sante in order to counter Kayn during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to gather a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you mind the build and stats displayed here, you will increase your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
K'Sante on average picks up much more CS relative to Kayn. Champs who typically don't earn many minion kills usualy don't need much CS to be effective, such as sup champs. They are able to scale properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually need 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 have in your K'Sante versus Kayn build include Sunfire Aegis, Thornmail, and Iceborn Gauntlet. When K'Sante combined at least these three items in their build, they did much better versus Kayn than with most other common item sets. In fact, K'Sante boasted an average win rate of 46.8% battling Kayn with this build.
To have the best probability of crushing Kayn as K'Sante, you should take the Grasp of the Undying, Demolish, Conditioning, Overgrowth, Legend: Tenacity, and Triumph runes from the Resolve and Precision rune sets. Out of all the rune sets that we analyzed for K'Sante vs Kayn fights, this order of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 46.8% winrate overall.
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