Kai'Sa vs Swain
How to Beat Swain as Kai'Sa
based on 6,111 Kai'Sa vs Swain matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Kai'Sa vs Swain Matchup Summary
Best Kai'Sa vs Swain Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Swain as Kai'Sa
Tips for Playing as Kai'Sa against Swain
Make sure to buy items that will evolve at least 1 or 2 of your spells.
Work with your teammates to set up your Ultimate and optimize damage with your passive.
Try to catch enemy carries alone to burst them with Icathian Rain.
Advice to Win Against Swain
Buying an item with Grievous Wounds will make Swain much easier to kill during his Demonic Ascension.
Swain's passive is very potent if you are immobilized. Make sure to be extra careful around enemies who have immobilizing effects.
High mobility counters all of Swain's basic abilities: Death's Hand does more damage the closer he is, Vision of Empire has a very long delay and Nevermove must start returning back to him to be dangerous.
Kai'Sa vs Swain Counter Stats
How to Counter Swain with Kai'Sa in LoL
The stats provided here emphasize some influential Kai'Sa versus Swain matchup statistics that can help you grasp the differences between this set of champs. As an example, Kai'Sa’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Swain’s ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Kai'Sa may be more central to her team's team fighting effectiveness than Swain..
Kai'Sa usually has a slightly larger longest kill spree than her foe does. On average, she receives less damage than Swain. This commonly reflects differing health capacities, yet it can also imply that the champion with more HP has less mobility and thus is not able to escape additional harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Kai'Sa and Swain
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Who is Better, Kai'Sa or Swain?
Both League champions are great. Both have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Kai'Sa usually loses when trying to fight Swain, with a 44.3% win rate. As a result, Kai'Sa makes a bad counter for Swain.
While Kai'Sa does have a much lower winrate compared to Swain, when on opposite teams, Kai'Sa also has a lower level of difficulty that makes her a less difficult character to learn and master. You should be very concerned when picking Kai'Sa into Swain.
Furthermore, Kai'Sa also has almost no amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Swain. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when facing champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion overall in League of Legends, in Kai'Sa vs Swain matchups, Swain is the better champion with a much lower win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during team fights.
Kai'Sa is a terribly counter for Swain. Make sure you focus your play on maximizing your gold and cs and destroying objectives. If you can do that, you should do very well as Kai'Sa against Swain.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Kai'Sa to counter Swain during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to learn a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you listen to the build and tips presented here, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Kai'Sa most often gets more CS as Swain. Champions who typically don't take many minion kills usualy don't have to have much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. They are able to scale well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, often require many items to be effective. In either situation, try to surpass the values reported on this page to do well.
The best items to prioritize in your Kai'Sa versus Swain build include Guardian Angel, Guinsoo's Rageblade, and Kraken Slayer. When Kai'Sa incorporated at least these three items in her build, she did much better vs. Swain than with many other typical builds. In fact, Kai'Sa had an average winrate of 44.3% battling Swain with these items in her kit.
To have the greatest chance of crushing Swain as Kai'Sa, Kai'Sa players should equip the Hail of Blades, Taste of Blood, Eyeball Collection, Treasure Hunter, Biscuit Delivery, and Magical Footwear runes from the Domination and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the rune combinations we have analyed for Kai'Sa vs Swain counters, this order of runes resulted in the highest win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 44.3% winrate overall.
By default, tips, statistics, and builds on how to beat Swain as Kai'Sa are displayed for all skill levels combined. If you want to narrow the stats and builds to an individual rank, you can use the selection menu located earlier in the counter matchup guide.