K'Sante·Top Build

Most Popular

If you want to use the most popular K'Sante Top build, you should take Flash and Teleport as your Summoner Spells. For runes, you should pick Grasp of the Undying as your keystone, followed by Shield Bash, Second Wind and Overgrowth in the primary tree, as well as Biscuit Delivery and Cosmic Insight in the secondary tree. For rune shards, you want Attack Speed in offense, Health Scaling in flex and Health Scaling in defense, though it depends on the matchup. Finally, for your items, you should build Iceborn Gauntlet as your first item, followed by Plated Steelcaps and Thornmail. For your last 3 items, you should build Jak'Sho, The Protean, Randuin's Omen and finish with Frozen Heart. For the skill order, you want to stick with Q - W - E. Right now, this build has 50.7% winrate over 3 853 matches played.

Optional

Your second option for K'Sante Top build would be to take Flash and Teleport as your Summoner Spells. The runes that this build takes advantage of are Grasp of the Undying as your keystone, Shield Bash, Second Wind and Overgrowth in the primary tree, and Biscuit Delivery with Cosmic Insight in the secondary tree. The shards used in this build are Attack Speed in offense, Health Scaling in flex and Health Scaling in defense. The items for the build are Kaenic Rookern, which you should build first, followed by Mercury's Treads as your second item and Iceborn Gauntlet as your third item. The rest of the items in order are Jak'Sho, The Protean, Thornmail and Unending Despair. The skill order for this build is Q - W - E. In the current patch, this build has a 51.5% win rate over 1 044 matches.

Alternative

If you're looking for alternatives, you can use Flash and Teleport as your Summoner Spells, with runes being Grasp of the Undying as your keystone, Shield Bash, Second Wind and Overgrowth in the primary tree, and Biscuit Delivery with Cosmic Insight in the secondary tree, as well as Attack Speed, Health Scaling, and Health Scaling as your rune shards. The items that this build incorporates are Thornmail as your first item, then Plated Steelcaps as a second item and Iceborn Gauntlet as a third item. You want to finish the build with Jak'Sho, The Protean, Randuin's Omen and Unending Despair. As far as ability max order goes, you want to keep it Q - W - E. This build is currently sitting at a 53.8% win rate across 840 matches played.

Off-Meta

If you want to try an Off-Meta K'Sante Top build in the current patch, try Flash and Teleport as your Summoner Spells, Aftershock, Shield Bash, Second Wind and Overgrowth as your primary rune tree, and Biscuit Delivery with Cosmic Insight as your secondary tree. Use Attack Speed, Health Scaling and Health Scaling as your shards. For items in this build, you want to complete Iceborn Gauntlet as your first item, then finish Plated Steelcaps as your second item, and Unending Despair as third item. The last 3 options are Spirit Visage, Thornmail and Randuin's Omen. The ability order for this build is Q - E - W. As of the current patch, this build has a 60.2% win rate over 231 matches played.

Situational K'Sante Runes and Items

Depending on the context of your game, your matchup, and enemy champions, you might want to consider building some situational items or take specific runes. Carefully examine your team, enemy team, game state , and your matchup to plan your K'Sante build accordingly! For example, when it comes to rune shards, you might want to take either Armor or Magic Resist, depending on which champion you are about to lane against.