Kalista vs Swain
How to Beat Swain as Kalista
based on 1,244 Kalista vs Swain matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Kalista vs Swain Matchup Summary
Best Kalista vs Swain Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Swain as Kalista
Tips for Playing as Kalista against Swain
Rend is a valuable last hitting aid, since its cooldown resets if it kills a target.
Entering a move order once to trigger Martial Poise will not clear Kalista's basic attack target.
Due to her passive, Kalista's Move Speed is effectively increased by Attack Speed.
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.
Kalista vs Swain Counter Stats
How to Counter Swain with Kalista in LoL
The stats provided here emphasize several valuable Kalista against Swain counter statistics that may help us understand the distinctions between the pair. Kalista’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Swain’s ratio of NaN, highlighting that Kalista may be more central to her team's team fighting capacity than Swain. This observation is in large part fueled by the difference in kills.
Kalista typically has a slightly larger longest kill spree than her opponent does. On average, she receives less damage than Swain. This often reflects different amounts of tankyness, but it can also illustrate that the champ with higher health has less agility and thus is not able to flee from additional harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Kalista and Swain
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Who is Better, Kalista or Swain?
Both League of Legends champs are great champions. Both champs have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Kalista usually loses when taking on Swain, with a 45.7% win rate. Therefore, Kalista makes a poor counter to Swain.
While Kalista does have a much lower win rate compared to Swain, when facing one another, Kalista also has a lower learning curve that makes her a less challenging character to learn. You should expect to face a difficult match when picking Kalista into Swainas her relative depth means you may not be able to unleash her full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Furthermore, Kalista 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 fighting champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion overall in League of Legends, in Kalista vs Swain matchups, Swain is the better champ with a much lower win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during team fights.
Kalista is a garbage counter for Swain. You will do well by focussing your tactics on maximizing your CS and taking out objectives. If you do that, you should hold your own as Kalista against Swain.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Kalista in order 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 tricks and insights into this matchup. If you mind the build and stats displayed above, you will increase your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Kalista on average picks up more CS as Swain. Champions who typically don't earn much CS often don't need much CS to be effective, such as supports. They are capable of scaling well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, often have to have several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to surpass the numbers shown on this page to do well.
The ideal items to focus on in your Kalista versus Swain build consist of Runaan's Hurricane, Guinsoo's Rageblade, and Blade of The Ruined King. When Kalista combined at least these three pieces in her build, she did significantly better against Swain than with most other common builds. In fact, Kalista boasted an average win rate of 45.7% battling Swain with this build.
To have the best probability of beating Swain as Kalista, you should take the Lethal Tempo, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Coup de Grace, Bone Plating, and Overgrowth runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Of all the rune builds that we analyzed for Kalista vs Swain counterpicks, this sequence of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 45.7% win rate overall.
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