K'Sante vs Naafiri
How to Beat Naafiri as K'Sante
based on 788 K'Sante vs Naafiri matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
K'Sante vs Naafiri Matchup Summary
Best K'Sante vs Naafiri Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Naafiri as K'Sante
Tips for Playing as K'Sante against Naafiri
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).
K'Sante vs Naafiri Counter Stats
How to Counter Naafiri with K'Sante in LoL
The stat comparisons shown on this page highlight some important K'Sante versus Naafiri matchup statistics that can help us interpret the differences between this pair of champions. As an example, K'Sante’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Naafiri’s ratio of NaN, demonstrating that K'Sante may be more central to their team's team fighting effectiveness than Naafiri..
K'Sante normally has a slightly smaller longest kill spree than their matchup does. Commonly, they receives more damage than Naafiri. This commonly reflects differing health capacities; however, it can also illustrate that the one champ has less agility and thus is not able to kite away from additional damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between K'Sante and Naafiri
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Who is Better, K'Sante or Naafiri?
Both League of Legends champs are great. Both have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, K'Sante usually loses when playing against Naafiri, with a 46.1% win rate. Thus, K'Sante makes a poor counter to Naafiri.
While K'Sante does have a lower winrate compared to Naafiri, when on opposite teams, K'Sante also has a much greater difficulty level that makes them a more challenging champion to pick up and master. You should be very concerned when picking K'Sante into Naafirias their relative depth means that you may not be able to reach their full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Additionally, K'Sante has some amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Naafiri. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when facing champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in K'Sante vs Naafiri matchups, Naafiri is the better champion with a much lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during teamfights.
K'Sante is a garbage counter to Naafiri. You will do well by focussing your tactics on keeping up your gold and cs and destroying objectives. If you can do that, you should be able to stand on your own as K'Sante against Naafiri.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of K'Sante in order to counter Naafiri during both the laning 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 mind the build and tips displayed above, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
K'Sante typically picks up a similar amount of CS as Naafiri. Champions who typically don't take many minion kills often don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as sup champs. They are able to scale properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, often require several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the numbers displayed here to do well.
The ideal items to prioritize in your K'Sante versus Naafiri build include Sunfire Aegis, Thornmail, and Iceborn Gauntlet. When K'Sante incorporated at least these three items in their build, they performed much better against Naafiri than with most other typical item sets. In fact, K'Sante boasted an average win rate of 46.1% when countering Naafiri with these items in their kit.
To have the greatest probability of crushing Naafiri as K'Sante, K'Sante players should take the Grasp of the Undying, Demolish, Conditioning, Overgrowth, Biscuit Delivery, and Approach Velocity runes from the Resolve and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the rune builds players picked for K'Sante vs Naafiri fights, this blending of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 46.1% win rate overall.
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