Rakan vs Swain
How to Beat Swain as Rakan
based on 4,049 Rakan vs Swain matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Rakan vs Swain Matchup Summary
Best Rakan vs Swain Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Swain as Rakan
Tips for Playing as Rakan against Swain
Rakan's dash speeds increase with his Move Speed. Use the extra speed to surprise your enemies!
Danger is as fun as you let it be.
Rakan requires allies near him to make the most out of his tools.
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.
Rakan vs Swain Counter Stats
How to Counter Swain with Rakan in LoL
The stats shown on this page feature some important Rakan versus Swain matchup stats that can help us figure out the distinctions between the two. For instance, Rakan’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Swain’s ratio of NaN, showing that Rakan may be more central to his team's team fighting capability than Swain..
Rakan often has a significantly smaller longest kill spree than his foe does. Commonly, he receives less damage than Swain. This is usually reflective of different amounts of tankyness; however, it can also indicate that the champ with higher HP has less mobility and thus is not able to kite away from additional damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Rakan and Swain
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Who is Better, Rakan or Swain?
Both LoL champs are great. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Rakan usually loses when taking on Swain, with a 45.1% win rate. Thus, Rakan makes a poor counter to Swain.
While Rakan does have a much lower winrate than Swain, when facing one another, Rakan also has a lower learning curve that makes him a less difficult character to develop with. You should be very concerned when picking Rakan into Swain.
Additionally, Rakan also has a very large amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Swain. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when trying to counter champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion overall in League of Legends, in Rakan 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 teamfights.
Rakan is a trash counter to Swain. Make sure you focus your actions on increasing your gold and cs and destroying objectives. If you are able to do that, you should hold your own as Rakan against Swain.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Rakan to counter Swain during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you listen 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.
Rakan typically accumulates a lot less CS relative to Swain. Champs who on average don't get much CS usualy don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as sup champs. They are able to scale well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically require many items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the numbers shown on this page to do well.
The most important items to prioritize in your Rakan versus Swain build include Trailblazer, Zeke's Convergence, and Knight's Vow. When Rakan used at least these three items in his build, he did significantly better when fighting Swain than with most other common item sets. In fact, Rakan had an average win rate of 45.1% when playing against Swain with this counter build.
To have the highest chance of beating Swain as Rakan, you should use the Guardian, Font of Life, Bone Plating, Unflinching, Zombie Ward, and Ultimate Hunter runes from the Resolve and Domination rune sets. Of all the rune combinations that we analyzed for Rakan vs Swain counters, this sequence of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 45.1% winrate overall.
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