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).
Orianna can only affect the area the Ball is around. Use this to your advantage.
Watch out for Orianna's Ball returning to her due to leashing. This may cause some unexpected situations.
The stat comparisons shown here feature some important K'Sante vs. Orianna matchup stats that may help us appreciate the differences and similarities between the two. For instance, K'Sante’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Orianna’s ratio of NaN, indicating that K'Sante may be more central to their team's team fighting potential than Orianna..
K'Sante often has a similar longest kill spree as their opponent does. Typically, they receives more damage than Orianna. This is usually reflective of different amounts of tankyness, yet it can also hint that the champ with more health has less agility and thus is unable to escape further harm when poked or engaged.
Both League of Legends champions are great. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, K'Sante usually loses when taking on Orianna, with a 48.9% win rate. As a result, K'Sante makes a poor counter for Orianna.
While K'Sante does have a lower win rate than Orianna, when on opposite teams, K'Sante also has a greater level of difficulty that makes them a more time consuming champion to pick up and master. You should be careful when picking K'Sante into Oriannaas their relative depth means that you may not be able to unleash their full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Additionally, K'Sante has some amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Orianna. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when fighting champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion overall in League of Legends, in K'Sante vs Orianna matchups, Orianna is the better champ with a lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during team fights.
K'Sante is a somewhat poor counter to Orianna. Focus your actions on increasing your CS and taking out objectives. If you do that, you should be able to stand on your own as K'Sante against Orianna.
If you would like to truly master K'Sante in order to counter Orianna during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to learn a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you listen to the build and tips shown here, you will grow 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 Orianna. Champs who typically don't take many minion kills usualy don't require much CS to be effective, such as supports. They 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, typically have to have several high cost items to be effective. In either situation, try to surpass the numbers shown on this page to do well.
The most important items to prioritize in your K'Sante versus Orianna build consist of Iceborn Gauntlet, Hollow Radiance, and Jak'Sho, The Protean. When K'Sante incorporated at least these three items in their build, they performed much better vs Orianna than with most other typical item sets. In fact, K'Sante had an average win rate of 48.9% when playing against Orianna with these items in their kit.
To have the greatest likelihood of annihilating Orianna as K'Sante, K'Sante players should take 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 we have analyed for K'Sante vs Orianna counters, this mixture of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 48.9% winrate overall.
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