Rek'Sai vs Swain
How to Beat Swain as Rek'Sai
based on 719 Rek'Sai vs Swain matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Rek'Sai vs Swain Matchup Summary
Best Rek'Sai vs Swain Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Swain as Rek'Sai
Tips for Playing as Rek'Sai against Swain
Keeping tunnels spread out across the map will ensure you have choices when you want to cast Void Rush.
Cast Burrow before travelling around the map to take advantage of the increased Move Speed and the safety provided by Tremor Sense.
Tremor Sense can warn you of enemies closing in, and is particularly useful when entering enemy territory.
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.
Rek'Sai vs Swain Counter Stats
How to Counter Swain with Rek'Sai in LoL
The stat comparisons provided here emphasize several important Rek'Sai versus Swain matchup stats that can help us appreciate the distinctions between this pair of champs. Rek'Sai’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Swain’s KDA ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Rek'Sai may be more central to his team's team fighting potential than Swain..
Rek'Sai normally has a slightly larger longest kill spree than his enemy does. Typically, he receives more damage than Swain. This is usually reflective of different amounts of tankyness; however, it can also imply that the champion with increased HP has less agility and thus is not able to escape additional harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Rek'Sai and Swain
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Who is Better, Rek'Sai or Swain?
Both LoL champs are great. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Rek'Sai usually loses when trying to fight Swain, with a 48.7% win rate. Therefore, Rek'Sai makes a bad counter for Swain.
While Rek'Sai does have a lower winrate than Swain, when they face off with one another, Rek'Sai also has a much lower difficulty level that makes him a less time consuming champion to pick up and master. You still need to be cautious when picking Rek'Sai into Swain.
Moreover, Rek'Sai has some 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 ton of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion in League of Legends, in Rek'Sai vs Swain matchups, Swain is the better champ with a lower win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during teamfights.
Rek'Sai is a somewhat poor counter to Swain. You will do well by focussing your strategy on increasing your gold and cs and taking out objectives. If you are able to do that, you should do very well as Rek'Sai against Swain.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Rek'Sai 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 tips and tricks for this matchup. If you listen to the build and tips displayed here, you should increase your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Rek'Sai typically gets less CS as Swain. Champs who typically don't earn many minion kills often don't have to have much CS to be valuable teammates, such as sup champs. They are capable of scaling well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically need many items to be effective. In either situation, try to exceed the numbers displayed here to do well.
The top items to have in your Rek'Sai versus Swain build include Sterak's Gage, Black Cleaver, and Titanic Hydra. When Rek'Sai incorporated at least these three items in his build, he did much better when fighting Swain than with most other common item sets. In fact, Rek'Sai had an average win rate of 48.7% when countering Swain with this counter build.
To have the highest chance of vanquishing Swain as Rek'Sai, Rek'Sai players should use the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Coup de Grace, Magical Footwear, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Precision and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the rune builds we have analyed for Rek'Sai vs Swain LoL games, this mixture of runes yielded the best win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 48.7% win rate overall.
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