K'Sante vs Sylas
How to Beat Sylas as K'Sante
based on 2,016 K'Sante vs Sylas matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
K'Sante vs Sylas Matchup Summary
Best K'Sante vs Sylas Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Sylas as K'Sante
Tips for Playing as K'Sante against Sylas
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 Sylas
Try to fight Sylas when he isn't able to take your ultimate.
Sylas's healthbar can be deceptive, watch out for his Kingslayer!
K'Sante vs Sylas Counter Stats
How to Counter Sylas with K'Sante in LoL
The stat comparisons shown here show several valuable K'Sante against Sylas counter statistics that may help you understand the distinctions between these two champions. K'Sante’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Sylas’s ratio of NaN, highlighting that K'Sante may be more central to their team's team fighting potential than Sylas..
K'Sante usually has a slightly smaller longest kill spree than their opponent does. Typically, they receives a similar amount of damage to Sylas. This typically indicates differing health capacities, but it can also imply that the champ with higher health has less agility and thus is unable to flee from additional damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between K'Sante and Sylas
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Who is Better, K'Sante or Sylas?
Both League of Legends champs are great. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, K'Sante usually fairs equally well when taking on Sylas, with a 49.3% win rate. Therefore, K'Sante makes an ok counter for Sylas.
While K'Sante does have a lower win rate than Sylas, when facing one another, K'Sante also has a much greater level of difficulty that makes them a more time consuming champ to learn. You still need to be cautious when picking K'Sante into Sylasas their relative depth means that you may not be able to reach their full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Furthermore, K'Sante has some amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Sylas. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when fighting champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion in League of Legends, in K'Sante vs Sylas matchups, Sylas is the better champ with a similar win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during team fights.
K'Sante is a somewhat poor counter to Sylas. You will do well by focussing your actions on keeping up your CS and taking out objectives. If you can do that, you should hold your own as K'Sante against Sylas.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master K'Sante to counter Sylas during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to gather a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you mind the build and suggestions displayed here, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
K'Sante most often gets a similar amount of CS as Sylas. Champions who typically don't earn many minion kills often don't require much CS to be effective, such as supports. They are capable of scaling well off of their abilities 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 Sylas build include Thornmail, Iceborn Gauntlet, and Jak'Sho, The Protean. When K'Sante bought at least these three pieces in their build, they performed significantly better vs. Sylas than with many other common counter builds. In fact, K'Sante boasted an average winrate of 49.3% when playing against Sylas with this build.
To have the greatest likelihood of beating Sylas 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. Out of all the runes we have analyed for K'Sante vs Sylas fights, this set of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 49.3% winrate overall.
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