r/KSanteMains

I have a really hard time wrapping my head around what this champion is supposed to do, he seems to be a swiss army knife that does everything decent at best, and then has 1 niche in the form of killing tanks.

What is the purpose of having a K'sante on your team? He doesn't clear waves very well, doesn't scale good, literally heals turrets, poor anti-dive champion cause he's too slow and clunky with his W, barely any range, doesn't perform even remotely as good as a tank compared to other tanks that can hard engage and CC instantly and gets beaten by better scaling fighters in his ult.

But boy he sure is fun to play and the dopamine hits just right when you make good plays.

I just straight up don't see a point to picking this champion if your purpose is to win the game though, unless you really wanna hard focus on denying an enemy the laning phase or you're facing off against 5 tanks, it's a negative to have this guy on your team.

He's not fluid like other and better champions, changing role mid-fight is a good idea on a champion like Jayce, Elise, Nidalee etc. who can do it at will at any point in time without giving up anything, but for K'sante who loses stats, gains arbitrary stats like attack speed and straight up have the ability not scale with anything, it's just awkward.

But you're a giga Chad if you main this champion, and accept your -20 lp with pride and chin up.

Ive been playing ksante for a couple of years now. Ive learnt fundamentals and build strategies. Ive gone to a point where 9/10 times ill win my lane. Although i have a problem on how i can carry games and be more impactful in the late games, because i really cant influence alot on what is going on at my bot lane and drakes and it always reaches a point where the enemy has a fed adc that burns through my resistances with true dmg and in team fights i just get thrown so much cc until im dead where i cant even press my ult. Even if i manage and get tons of resistances to the point im unkillable i just cant catch up with my team and enemies so i end up being 0 threat in the late game.

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Not only would it make him way more interesting by being the only normal human that willingly fights voidborne, it would also make his "regenerating" weapons make more sense. Also void aesthetic weapons wouldve helped his visuals imo

I just spammed 3 games on the new patch to see how bad the E shield nerfs actually felt, but honestly, it's a total joke.

Reading the patch notes, you'd think losing 10 base shield and 1,5% bonus HP would make trading riskier (I did too). In reality I completely forgot he even got nerfed while playing. My laning phases felt completely the same. I still nehttealise the lane perfectly fine, and I can still do SOMETHING in late game.

It's dumb that Riot is still nerfing a 46% win rate champion, I definitely think that, but it feels like Riot threw a placebo nerf into the patch notes so the general community would stop crying that he's not getting any nerfs, without really touching what's wrong. And this is supposed to impact him in the upcoming MSI? Textbook placebo nerf.

Anyone else tried him out? Did you notice a difference at all, because I definitely didn't.

Man, Im just so done. KSante is getting nerfed again and I feel likea joke. The champ already has one of the worst win rates in the entire game, that awful rework stripped away everything that made him fun, and Riot still has him permanently locked in pro-play jail because of less than 0.1% of the player base. It makes zero sense.

But honestly, what pisses me off the most is how passive everyone is being. People on this sub are straight up coping and accepting these garbage, lazy arguments like, oh but if he gets buffed ll be broke... We are letting them completely kill a character we love because they are of pro players. Its cowardly to just sit here and take it

We dont need to quit playing him to make a point, since we all love his kit too much for that anyway. But I dont know, maybe we could start messing maybe we could try building crazy off-meta shit, or try playing him mid or support, just taking him to random lanes maybe

Everyone here is just tired. No one is having fun anymore. We don't want him to be some overpowered monster, i dont know anymore, we're totally yielding.

i picked up k’sante recently and wanna play him as a more supportish(?) role for my duo (mainly gwen jgl). he farms well, gets a lot of kills, and is very consistant, so i believe it’s more effective for me to hyperbuff and peel for him rather than playing a traditional aggro top playstyle (im mastery 70 sett). my current strat is to build jaksho -> knights vow -> abyssal mask and then shift focus to perma fighting obj with gwen. gwen mainly focuses botside and drags but i get ganks if i really need them: i play fairly reserved and look to play for items.

i wanna know if my build path is grief? does sante’s identity fit this strategy well? its worked well in the few games we’ve ran it, but we’re only in plat/emerald. any advice and tidbits greatly appreciated.