Vladimir vs K'Sante
How to Beat K'Sante as Vladimir
based on 1,923 Vladimir vs K'Sante matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Vladimir vs K'Sante Matchup Summary
Best Vladimir vs K'Sante Counter Build
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Guide to Countering K'Sante as Vladimir
Tips for Playing as Vladimir against K'Sante
Transfusion instantly deals damage to the enemy before healing Vladimir, making it one of the best last hitting tools in the game.
Cast Hemoplague where it will afflict the most units.
Sanguine Pool pops incoming missiles, so it can be used to dodge disables.
Advice to Win Against K'Sante
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.
Vladimir vs K'Sante Counter Stats
How to Counter K'Sante with Vladimir in LoL
The stats provided here clarify several vital Vladimir vs. K'Sante matchup statistics that may help you figure out the differences between the two. Vladimir’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than K'Sante’s ratio of NaN, highlighting that Vladimir may be more central to his team's team fighting capability than K'Sante..
Vladimir normally has a slightly larger longest kill spree than his counter does. On average, he receives a similar amount of damage to K'Sante. This commonly reflects differing health capacities, but it can also hint that the champion with more health has less mobility and thus is unable to kite away from further harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Vladimir and K'Sante
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Who is Better, Vladimir or K'Sante?
Both LoL champions are great champions. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Vladimir usually wins when facing off against K'Sante, with a 52.5% win rate. Thus, Vladimir makes a good counter to K'Sante.
While Vladimir does have a higher win rate compared to K'Sante, when facing one another, Vladimir also has a lower difficulty level that makes him a less complex champion to pick up and master. You don't need to be too worried when picking Vladimir into K'Santeas his relative depth means that you may not be able to reach his full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Furthermore, Vladimir has only a small amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to K'Sante. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when fighting champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion in League of Legends, in Vladimir vs K'Sante matchups, Vladimir is the better champ with a noticably higher win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during late stage team fights.
Vladimir is an above average counter to K'Sante. You will do well by focussing your play on maximizing your gold income and destroying objectives. If you do that, you should hold your own as Vladimir against K'Sante.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Vladimir to counter K'Sante during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to learn a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and suggestions shown here, you should grow your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Vladimir on average racks up a similar amount of CS as K'Sante. Champs who typically don't acquire much CS often don't have to have much CS to be valuable teammates, such as supports. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, often have to have several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to exceed the numbers reported here to do well.
The ideal items to focus on in your Vladimir versus K'Sante build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Cosmic Drive, and Riftmaker. When Vladimir bought at least these three pieces in his build, he performed a lot better vs. K'Sante than with most other common builds. In fact, Vladimir had an average winrate of 52.5% battling K'Sante with these items in his kit.
To have the best chance of crushing K'Sante as Vladimir, Vladimir players should use the Phase Rush, Nimbus Cloak, Transcendence, Gathering Storm, Magical Footwear, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Sorcery and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the rune sets players chose for Vladimir vs K'Sante battles, this composite of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 52.5% win rate overall.
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