Kennen vs Swain
How to Beat Swain as Kennen
based on 1,470 Kennen vs Swain matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Kennen vs Swain Matchup Summary
Best Kennen vs Swain Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Swain as Kennen
Tips for Playing as Kennen against Swain
You can land an initial Mark of the Storm debuff on an opponent with Thundering Shuriken, and then add to it with Electrical Surge.
Lightning Rush can be used to initiate fights with its Energy return component, allowing him to use other abilities afterward.
You can stun your opponents by inflicting 3 Marks of the Storm upon them.
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.
Kennen vs Swain Counter Stats
How to Counter Swain with Kennen in LoL
The stat comparisons provided here show several significant Kennen vs. Swain counter statistics that may help us grasp the distinctions between the two. As an example, Kennen’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Swain’s ratio of NaN, indicating that Kennen may be more central to his team's team fighting effectiveness than Swain..
Kennen normally has a similar longest kill spree as his foe does. On average, he receives less damage than Swain. This is usually reflective of different amounts of tankyness, but it can also imply that the champion with more health has less agility and thus is not able to kite away from further harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Kennen and Swain
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Who is Better, Kennen or Swain?
Both League champions are great champions. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Kennen usually loses when trying to fight Swain, with a 44.8% win rate. As a result, Kennen makes a poor counter to Swain.
While Kennen does have a much lower winrate than Swain, when on opposite teams, Kennen also has a much lower difficulty level that makes him a less difficult champ to learn and master. You should be very concerned when picking Kennen into Swain.
Additionally, Kennen also has a good amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Swain. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when fighting champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Kennen 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 teammates during late stage team fights.
Kennen is a bad counter to Swain. Make sure you focus your strategy on maximizing your gold and cs and destroying objectives. If you are able to do that, you should hold your own as Kennen against Swain.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Kennen in order to counter Swain during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to gather a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and tips shown above, you should grow your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Kennen on average accumulates more CS compared to Swain. Champs who typically don't earn much CS usualy don't need much CS to be effective, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are able to scale properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically need several high cost items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the numbers reported on this page to do well.
The ideal items to use in your Kennen versus Swain build consist of Rabadon's Deathcap, Shadowflame, and Stormsurge. When Kennen included at least these three items in his build, he performed much better against Swain than with most other common counter builds. In fact, Kennen had an average winrate of 44.8% when playing against Swain with this counter build.
To have the greatest likelihood of coming out on top against Swain as Kennen, you should equip the Electrocute, Taste of Blood, Eyeball Collection, Ultimate Hunter, Absolute Focus, and Scorch runes from the Domination and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the rune sets players chose for Kennen vs Swain fights, this sequence of runes resulted in the highest win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 44.8% win rate overall.
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