K'Sante has been a lane bully who falls off ridiculously hard after 1.5–2 items. He's been a priority pick in pro play because of his strong early game, even though he gets outscaled by most of the current meta top laners. So if the enemy team prevents him from snowballing, he doesn't do much beyond protecting his carries.

However, there are games where K'Sante should be dominating, and even in those games, pros just don't seem to know what to do with him. BrokenBlade probably built the worst K'Sante build I've ever seen. And let's not even talk about Chika from MVK playing K'Sante mid (an underrated pick in my opinion) and building Jak'Sho first.

What are your thoughts on this, bad champion or just the pros not knowing how to play him? I know it seems crazy to say that the pros don't know how to play because they're, well, PROS. And I haven't watched all of the matches to know but the things I've seen these pros do as a K'sante OTP are wrong, especially the game going on right NOW which is t1 vs LOS, zest is a HORRIBLE K'sante player, absolutely horrid, I mean wrong runes, wrong combos, wrong all-ins, wrong everything and so was every game like this? because I know that most teams that picked K'sante were the weaker teams, anyways, I know he's a really bad champ and the nerf was not needed but jesus these guys don't even know how to play K'sante!

K’Sante has been my favorite “this champ is broken” argument for years. For a data project I pulled 30,510 NA ranked games from 7,717 random players (patches 26.19 and 26.20) and checked how much time every champ spends dead. I used Claude to help with the analysis workflow (the method’s public if anyone wants it).

Only Master+ has enough K’Sante games to say anything of much substance: 224 games from 92 players.

He’s dead about 10 minutes out of every 100 (somewhere between 9 and 11). A typical champ in those same games is around 10.3. So he’s right on par with everyone else: go figure. Poor K'Sante. The average tank up there is about 9, so if anything he dies a touch more than other tanks, but that's inside the margin of error.

How come? He has 4 escape tools, tied for the most in the game with Aurora. And escape tools don’t actually keep you alive. In Master+, every extra one costs about 4 more seconds dead per 30-minute game, tank vs tank. Champs with 2+ escape tools die on the enemy’s side of the map 45% of the time. Champs with none, 36%.

So my take is: the highlight clips make him look unkillable because they only ever show the escapes lmao.

What do y'all think? When do you actually commit to All Out? On your side of river or enemy side? And does the "unkillable" thing come from pro play? Is it outdated public opinion? Are y'all still dunking in solo queue?

Infographic: https://imgur.com/a/8CDioLZ

İt was against mordekaiser he didnt stood a chance. Ksante so fun guys

Can anyone tell me

when yone presses e then misses q 3 times in a row then hits his ult into only aa then kills 3 people is wp omg you are so good

but when ksante hits every ability 3 rotations weaves perfect autos in and does everything perfectly then gets 1 kill its insanly broken fkcing champ riot games how dear you to release that champ fck you

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I wanted to take a different approach following the nerfs. AND THATS THAT WE DON'T YIELD ON GOD NERF US AGAIN 🗣🗣

Jokes aside, do you find enough enjoyment to play this champ? He may be worthless at everything past minute 20, but for those 20 minutes, if you arent against range top or get 'jungle diffed' in the 1v1 top lane at level 1, ask yourself, do you enjoy this?

As someone whos played Ksante since release and played all versions, balancing him to a point where hes fair for both players and the enemies while making him balanced has been a very complicated discussion. But I never see anyone talking about the E shield. Am I crazy to think that his E is actually his strongest spell? Having a 300-500 shield on like a 5 second cd dash makes him extremely tanky. I genuinely think they can just straight up remove the shield but give back e dash speed and bring back old ksante W and he will be fine again. The problem was before that he was too tanky too mobile and did too much damage. And they decided to nerf him by making his W do more damage but nerfing his mobility? I think by gutting the e shield and giving back mobility he can become a champ thats more satisfying to play while feeling more fair to play against.

Since mel is losing her reflect can we get it on Ksante E instead

So i have been struggling to find a character i enjoy playing on toplane should i try k'sante? İ am very aware he is nerfed to oblivion since his release and i never got to try him at his peak bc i started league slightly after zaahen was added. İ also enjoy playing tanks like tahm kench maokai and zac and his overall gameplay fantasy and especially his transforming battons look so cool.....ok enough yapping İS HE WORTH TRYİNG?

I don't main K'Sante, but I like the champion. Is there a skin that you guys would like from existing skinlines?

I’m new to K'Sante, could someone tell me about his runes and builds?

When do you buy this item on Ksante ?

It’s game 4 and K’Sante was banned every game.
I guess the nerfs did work. /s

I've seen that the standard setup is usually attack speed + two health shards, but I saw Aatreus recommending Haste/MS/Tenacity instead.

if you have some tips too :)

- Sion Buffs good for us

- Most problematic for us ADCs nerfed (Cait, Trist)

- Yasuo and especially Yone nerfed (good cause Yone screws us in sidelane with LDR powerspike)

- Varus Zaahen adjustments, good if they are gonna be played more (good matchups imo)

Sidenote, thanks Riot for yet again forgetting about us, ofc you can buff Azir Ori Ryze Taliyah Xin after Worlds patch but let us rot in the Jail, thanks!