Kassadin vs Swain
How to Beat Swain as Kassadin
based on 1,888 Kassadin vs Swain matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Kassadin vs Swain Matchup Summary
Best Kassadin vs Swain Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Swain as Kassadin
Tips for Playing as Kassadin against Swain
Kassadin's ultimate has many uses and is on a shorter cooldown than most, use it often.
Kassadin has multiple item paths; he can go caster via Mana and Ability Power or anti-caster with Cooldown Reduction and Magic Resist.
Try to get the Ancient Golem buff to counteract Riftwalk's increasing Mana cost.
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.
Kassadin vs Swain Counter Stats
How to Counter Swain with Kassadin in LoL
The stats provided here clarify some important Kassadin versus Swain matchup statistics that may help you distinguish the differences and similarities between this pair of champions. As an example, Kassadin’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Swain’s KDA ratio of NaN, indicating that Kassadin may be more central to his team's team fighting capacity than Swain..
Kassadin often has a slightly larger longest kill spree than his matchup does. On average, he takes a similar amount of damage to Swain. This commonly reflects differing health capacities, yet it can also show that the champ with increased HP has less agility and thus is unable to kite away from further damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Kassadin and Swain
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Who is Better, Kassadin or Swain?
Both League champions are great. Both have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Kassadin usually loses when taking on Swain, with a 48.7% win rate. Thus, Kassadin makes a bad counter to Swain.
While Kassadin does have a lower win rate compared to Swain, when they face off with one another, Kassadin also has a greater level of difficulty that makes him a more difficult champ to pick up and master. You should be careful when picking Kassadin into Swainas his relative depth means you may not be able to unleash his full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Moreover, Kassadin has some amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Swain. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when facing champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion in League of Legends, in Kassadin vs Swain matchups, Swain is the better champion with a lower win rate, similar champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during team fights.
Kassadin is a somewhat poor counter to Swain. You will do well by focussing your gameplay on keeping up your gold income and clearing objectives. If you can do that, you should hold your own as Kassadin against Swain.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Kassadin to counter Swain during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to pick up a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and tips displayed above, you will grow your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Kassadin typically racks up more CS as Swain. Champions who typically don't earn much CS typically don't require much CS to be effective, such as sup champs. These kinds of champions 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, usually require a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to surpass the values reported on this page to do well.
The top items to focus on in your Kassadin versus Swain build include Seraph's Embrace, Malignance, and Stormsurge. When Kassadin used at least these three pieces in his build, he performed significantly better vs. Swain than with most other common item sets. In fact, Kassadin had an average win rate of 48.7% when playing against Swain with this counter build.
To have the greatest probability of crushing Swain as Kassadin, you should take the First Strike, Magical Footwear, Future's Market, Cosmic Insight, Sudden Impact, and Ultimate Hunter runes from the Inspiration and Domination rune sets. Out of all the runes that we analyzed for Kassadin vs Swain battles, this order of runes yielded the best win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 48.7% win rate overall.
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