How to win lane as K'Sante against Locke · 47.44% win rate over 782 Emerald+ games · Updated 2026-07-27
| Stage | Favoured | Why |
|---|---|---|
| Level 1 | Locke | His Silver Stake and Ritual Nails punish your huge HP bar while your level-1 damage is nil. |
| Level 2 | Locke | His marks keep out-trading you — your early all-in is too weak to answer back. |
| Level 3 | Locke | His grey-health W trades erode you faster than you can sustain at level 3. |
| Levels 4-5 | Locke | Through 4-5 he out-DPSes your tankiness and dodges your pull-stun with his dash. |
| Level 6 | Locke | His Purgatory ignores effective HP and punishes the resistances you strip in All Out. |
| First item | Locke | His AP spike plus missing-HP on-hit beats your bruiser first item. |
| Two+ items | Locke | His percent-execute scaling means your HP stacking never lets you escape him late. |
Call it what it is: a counter-pick. His Silver Stake and Ritual Nails tax your HP bar in percentages while your level-1 damage is nil, and his grey-health trades erode you faster than you sustain. Trade as little as possible, hold W to interrupt his dash-in, and treat safe CS under tower as success.
The full K'Sante vs Locke report continues with the mid-game plan, the late-game and teamfight plan, every power spike to play around, and the win conditions for both sides — plus cooldown tracking and the live enemy-jungle tracker inside the app.
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