K'Sante vs Leona
How to Beat Leona as K'Sante
based on 2,090 K'Sante vs Leona matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
K'Sante vs Leona Matchup Summary
Best K'Sante vs Leona Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Leona as K'Sante
Tips for Playing as K'Sante against Leona
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 Leona
When Leona activates Eclipse, you have three seconds to get away from her before she deals damage.
Only foes in the center of Solar Flare get stunned, so you can often avoid this if you're quick.
K'Sante vs Leona Counter Stats
How to Counter Leona with K'Sante in LoL
The stats shown here clarify several valuable K'Sante against Leona matchup statistics that may help us distinguish the differences between this set of champions. For instance, K'Sante’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Leona’s KDA ratio of NaN, showing that K'Sante may be more central to their team's team fighting potential than Leona..
K'Sante typically has a slightly larger longest killing spree than their matchup does. Commonly, they receives more damage than Leona. This is usually reflective of different amounts of tankyness; however, it can also hint that the champ with increased HP has less agility and thus is not able to kite away from further damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between K'Sante and Leona
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Who is Better, K'Sante or Leona?
Both LoL champs are great. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, K'Sante usually loses when playing against Leona, with a 44.7% win rate. Thus, K'Sante makes a poor counter for Leona.
While K'Sante does have a much lower winrate compared to Leona, when on opposite teams, K'Sante also has a much greater difficulty level that makes them a more complex champ to pick up and master. You should be very concerned when picking K'Sante into Leonaas their relative depth means that you may not be able to unleash 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 Leona. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when trying to counter champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion in League of Legends, in K'Sante vs Leona matchups, Leona is the better champ with a much lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during team fights.
K'Sante is a bad counter to Leona. You will do well by focussing your play on keeping up your gold income and destroying objectives. If you are able to do that, you should do very well as K'Sante against Leona.
Other Champion Matchups Against K'Sante
Additional Information for K'Sante Players
How We Calculated Our K'Sante vs Leona Build and Stats
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master K'Sante to counter Leona during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to pick up a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you listen to the build and suggestions shown here, you should increase your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
K'Sante often gets much more CS compared to Leona. Champs who typically don't get many minion kills usualy don't have to have much CS to be valuable teammates, such as sup champs. They are able to scale well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually require several high cost items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the values shown on this page to do well.
The ideal items to use in your K'Sante versus Leona build include Kaenic Rookern, Iceborn Gauntlet, and Jak'Sho, The Protean. When K'Sante combined at least these three items in their build, they performed significantly better versus Leona than with many other typical counter builds. In fact, K'Sante boasted an average winrate of 44.7% when playing against Leona with this build.
To have the best probability of beating Leona as K'Sante, you should use 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 builds that we analyzed for K'Sante vs Leona counterpicks, this mixture of runes yielded the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 44.7% winrate overall.
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