Everything Wrong With: K'sante | League of Legends

Welcome to my new series: Everything Wrong With, where I talk about design problems with a champion that make them very unpleasant to play or play against. For the first episode we'll be discussing K'Sante!

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[sparklethunder]

체력 4700 방어력 329 마저201 인 챔피언👤이 저지불가🚫, 쉴드🛡, 벽🧱 넘기는 거 있고요. 에어본🌪 있고, 심지어 쿨타임은 1⃣초밖에 안되고 마나🧙‍♂는 1⃣5⃣ 들고 w는 심지어 변신💫하면 쿨 초기화에다가 패시브는 고정피해🗡가 들어가며 그 다음에 방마저🥋 올리면📈 올릴수록📈 스킬 가속⏰이 생기고! q에 스킬가속⏰이 생기고 스킬 속도🚀가 빨라지고📈 그 다음에 공격력🗡 계수가 있어가지고 W가 그 이익-으아아아악😱😱

[arktype]

The worst thing about k'sante is that he always skips leg day in the gym

[desocialistcat]

the penta steal by darius at 5:41 was vile

[destructive_thoughts_]

The idea of K'sante being a fighter when he changes stance would have been so dope, but Riot has a nasty habit of thinking that every solo lane champion should have 1 vs 9 capabilities...

[BrendanGeormer]

9:58 It clicked for me here that with Gnar, when you have the playstyle change from little guy who kites and chips away at you, with some tankiness and mobility, to big beefy tank with CC who wants to get in the middle of the entire team as much as possible, your lesser form still has the benefits of the items that you pick for your tankiness in mega form, and you can still get use out of them because it makes you more surviveable in mini form and minor HP scaling, but all these positives are mitigated by the fact that Gnar doesn't have full control over his transformation. There is, however, skill expression in being able to manage your rage as a resource to only have it pop at the time you need so that you aren't stuck trying to rebuild it from going mega too early.

[coldconcept]

When I first saw ksante I thought he was a really cool throwback champ, simple and stocky. But then going against him a few times I realised he is just yasuos long lost third wind brother with a thousand dashes a 2 second cd C and just spams abilities taking no damage

[Mache.]

After ulting, K'Sante still has all the defensive passive from items, making it a bit extra-tanky with extra control abilities (like Frozen Heart and Frozen Gauntlet). Riot really didn't consider how broken this champ would be.

[avdusknoir]

love that transition at 9:19, even if it's really minor it's still a fun detail to see how different arcane and league's art directions and tones are

[RandomDude-gvzu]

“This is K'Sante, a champion with 4, 700 HP, 329 Armor, and 201 MR, has Unstoppable, a Shield, and goes over walls. Has Airborne, and the cooldown is only 1 second too. It costs 15 Mana. The W CD is even refreshed when he transforms. He has true damage on his passive. Then, when he stacks Armor and MR, he gets Ability Haste too, Ability Haste to his Q, and his spell casting speeds up. Then, he has an AD ratio, so his

[mythmage]

K'Sante kinda has the Tracer (Overwatch) or Nurse (Dead By Daylight) effect, where they're extremely hard but extremely broken, which means the devs are caught in a catch 22. Do they try and reward the skill and effort put into the character, or do they nerf the character for the sake of balance?

[shacolin]

In competitive pokemon we call that role compression. Landorus-T is the most notorious example of that as he can do so many different things his popularity has reached 70% at one point, which is unheard of. That being said, none of the things Lando-T does are broken, so he was never banned. However, being possibly the most versatile pokemon in the game makes him reach unprecedent levels of popularity.

He has high damage, good speed, average defensive stats but one of the best defensive types in the game, one of the best defensive abilities in the game and access to a number of useful moves. Moves like U-turn and Knock-off are damaging attacks, but mostly used for their utility. Which its high attack, Lando-T offers the utility of both moves and have relevant chip while he is at it. His high base attack also makes his Earthquakes hurt even with little offensive investment. On top of that, he has a wide range of useful utility moves. None of the things he do are particularly exclusive to him, its the fact he does it all that makes him stand out.

K'sante seems to follow a similar logic. The difference being that League isn't a turn based game so role compression may have a different implication

[SamElZombie]

I think it would be better if instead of swapping into a skirmisher he switched into a juggernaut, so he would loose less deffensive stats and thus gain less dmg and omnivamp

[Vernafveik]

K’Sante reminds me a bit of Happy Chaos from Guilty Gear Strive

You spend a large amount of your time resource trying to place yourself at an advantage, and when you do he switches his whole archetype around to one where his previous disadvantage state IS his advantage state

[GARYtheCANNIBAL]

As a Garen main I just find it funny that K'Sante, despite being a scaling tank, actually does worse into Garen the longer the game goes on

Garen with no R: K'Sante favored, his dashes and Q poke make it easy to outplay him

Rank 1 Garen R: if K'Sante couldn't or didn't R before Garen hit 6, there's little incentive to use it in lane now aside from repositioning and then immediately turning it off

Rank 2 Garen R: K'Sante should hold R for roams/teamfights, once lane is over he is not the best option to split against Garen

Rank 3 Garen R: Using K'Sante R is now quite literally suicide if Garen is anywhere nearby, which neuters his teamfight capabilities

Especially if Garen takes ignite, I see some beautiful irony in the high skill-cap "skirmisher tank" hard losing to one of the most noob-friendly bruisers in the game lol

[skyeblu]

Can’t wait for everything wrong with Yone where Vars just reuploads his champion spotlight

[intoHeck]

Dont forget he also is pretty mobile and with a knock in, getting away from him is pretty difficult. So you have a tank that can gap close pretty easily and at a moments notice turn into a damage dealer to beat your ass

[adelinpanait]

i played ap top against ksante, he was 0/3, he bought iceborn, an armor item, and proceeded to beat me up by making at 100 movement speed and spamming whatever he had

[CringeAlarmm]

also a thing to mention is normally with tank items, they have massive effects early on but fall off when you hit 4th/5th item because of the armor and mr dmg res diminishing returns but with ksante they will always give him a big spike in power due to the scalings in all out

[LosZavion]

He took that guys penta kill. What a goon.

[KZ-sxew]

“If you are a toplaner and you play tank, you forgo the ability to carry your team” 5k 500 ad mundo enters the chat