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).
Get boots early when playing against Syndra, they'll help you avoid many of her spells.
Attack Syndra after she's used Scatter the Weak, it has a long cooldown so she'll be vulnerable.
At max rank Syndra's spells gain bonus effects and change in appearance.
The stat comparisons provided here show some valuable K'Sante vs. Syndra counter stats that can help you distinguish the differences between the two. For instance, K'Sante’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Syndra’s KDA ratio of NaN, demonstrating that K'Sante may be more central to their team's team fighting capacity than Syndra..
K'Sante often has a slightly smaller longest killing spree than their opponent does. On average, they takes more damage than Syndra. This commonly reflects differing health capacities; however, it can also imply that the champ with increased health has less agility and thus is not able to flee from additional damage when poked or engaged.
Both League of Legends champs are great champions. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, K'Sante usually fairs equally well when playing against Syndra, with a 49.5% win rate. Thus, K'Sante makes an ok counter for Syndra.
While K'Sante does have a lower winrate than Syndra, when they face off with one another, K'Sante also has a greater difficulty level that makes them a more time consuming champ to pick up and master. You should be careful when picking K'Sante into Syndraas 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 also has some amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Syndra. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when fighting champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion in League of Legends, in K'Sante vs Syndra matchups, Syndra is the better champion with a similar win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during team fights.
K'Sante is a somewhat poor counter for Syndra. You will do well by focussing your play on increasing your gold and cs and destroying objectives. If you do that, you should do very well as K'Sante against Syndra.
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of K'Sante in order to counter Syndra during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to pick up a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and stats shown above, you will increase your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
K'Sante typically accumulates a similar amount of CS relative to Syndra. Champions who on average don't take much CS usualy don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as supports. These kinds of champions are able to scale well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually require a lot of items to be effective. In either situation, try to exceed the values reported here to do well.
The best items to focus on in your K'Sante versus Syndra build include Iceborn Gauntlet, Hollow Radiance, and Jak'Sho, The Protean. When K'Sante included at least these three items in their build, they performed a lot better vs. Syndra than with most other typical builds. In fact, K'Sante boasted an average win rate of 49.5% when playing against Syndra with this build.
To have the highest probability of coming out on top against Syndra as K'Sante, you 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 rune sets players used for K'Sante vs Syndra matchups, this blending of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 49.5% win rate overall.
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