K'Sante vs Zilean
How to Beat Zilean as K'Sante
based on 728 K'Sante vs Zilean matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
K'Sante vs Zilean Matchup Summary
Best K'Sante vs Zilean Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Zilean as K'Sante
Tips for Playing as K'Sante against Zilean
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 Zilean
Zilean is fragile if a team focuses on him, but otherwise he's very difficult to kill. Commit to killing him as a team.
If you're able to match Zilean's speed, it can sometimes be beneficial to wait until his ultimate has faded before landing the killing blow.
K'Sante vs Zilean Counter Stats
How to Counter Zilean with K'Sante in LoL
The stat comparisons shown here highlight some vital K'Sante against Zilean matchup statistics that may help us figure out the distinctions between this pair of champions. As an example, K'Sante’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Zilean’s KDA ratio of NaN, indicating that K'Sante may be more central to their team's team fighting capacity than Zilean..
K'Sante normally has a slightly larger longest killing spree than their counter does. Typically, they takes more damage than Zilean. This often reflects differing health capacities, but it can also imply that the one champ has less agility and thus is unable to kite away from additional damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between K'Sante and Zilean
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Who is Better, K'Sante or Zilean?
Both League champs are great champions. Both champs have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, K'Sante usually loses when trying to fight Zilean, with a 44.5% win rate. Therefore, K'Sante makes a bad counter for Zilean.
While K'Sante does have a much lower win rate compared to Zilean, when they face off with one another, K'Sante also has a much greater difficulty level that makes them a more time consuming champ to learn. You should be very concerned when picking K'Sante into Zileanas their relative depth means you may not be able to reach their full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Furthermore, K'Sante has some amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Zilean. 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 Zilean matchups, Zilean is the better champion with a much lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during teamfights.
K'Sante is a trash counter for Zilean. Focus your play on keeping up your CS and clearing objectives. If you can do that, you should be able to stand on your own as K'Sante against Zilean.
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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 Zilean 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 mind the build and stats presented above, you should grow your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
K'Sante often racks up much more CS as Zilean. Champs who typically don't acquire many minion kills usualy don't have to have much CS to be effective, such as sup champs. These kinds of champions are able to scale well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically need a lot of items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the values shown on this page to do well.
The most crucial items to use in your K'Sante versus Zilean build include Iceborn Gauntlet, Hollow Radiance, and Jak'Sho, The Protean. When K'Sante used at least these three items in their build, they performed a lot better versus Zilean than with many other typical item sets. In fact, K'Sante boasted an average win rate of 44.5% battling Zilean with these items in their kit.
To have the best likelihood of vanquishing Zilean 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 runes players chose for K'Sante vs Zilean counters, this set of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 44.5% winrate overall.
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