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Stay spread out to minimize the impact of Lee Sin's ultimate, Dragon's Rage.
Lee Sin relies heavily on following up with his abilities. Use disables to prevent him from chaining together his abilities and attacks.
Lee Sin has powerful tools to combat physical damage in Iron Will and Cripple but he is still vulnerable to magic damage.
The stat comparisons shown here clarify several influential Naafiri vs. K'Sante counter stats that may help you grasp the differences between the two. Naafiri’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than K'Sante’s KDA ratio of NaN, showing that Naafiri may be more central to their team's team fighting capability than K'Sante. This observation is largely caused by the difference in kills.
Naafiri typically has a slightly larger longest kill spree than their matchup does. Typically, they receives less damage than K'Sante. This is usually reflective of different amounts of tankyness, but it can also imply that the one champion has less mobility and thus is not able to flee from additional harm when poked or engaged.
Both LoL champs are great. Both champs have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Naafiri usually wins when taking on K'Sante, with a 53.9% win rate. Therefore, Naafiri makes a great counter to K'Sante.
While Naafiri does have a higher winrate than K'Sante, when on opposite teams, Naafiri also has a much lower difficulty level that makes them a less time consuming champion to learn. You should be be fine when picking Naafiri into K'Sante.
Additionally, Naafiri has some amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to K'Sante. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when fighting champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion in League of Legends, in Naafiri vs K'Sante matchups, Naafiri is the better champion with a noticably higher win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during late stage team fights.
Naafiri is a great counter to K'Sante. You will do well by focussing your gameplay on maximizing your gold and cs and clearing objectives. If you can do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Naafiri against K'Sante.
To truly master Naafiri to counter K'Sante during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you mind the build and tips presented above, you will increase your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Naafiri typically gets a similar amount of CS as K'Sante. Champions who on average don't get much CS usualy don't need much CS to be effective, such as sup champs. These kinds of champions are able to scale properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually need several high cost items to be effective. In either situation, try to surpass the values displayed here to do well.
The top items to focus on in your Naafiri versus K'Sante build consist of Edge of Night, Serylda's Grudge, and Opportunity. When Naafiri included at least these three pieces in their build, they did much better vs K'Sante than with many other commonly used counter builds. In fact, Naafiri had an average win rate of 53.9% battling K'Sante with these items in their kit.
To have the best likelihood of defeating K'Sante as Naafiri, you should take the First Strike, Magical Footwear, Biscuit Delivery, Cosmic Insight, Sudden Impact, and Treasure Hunter runes from the Inspiration and Domination rune sets. Out of all the runes we have analyed for Naafiri vs K'Sante clashes, this mixture of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 53.9% winrate overall.
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