Swain vs Kai'Sa
How to Beat Kai'Sa as Swain
based on 6,111 Swain vs Kai'Sa matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Swain vs Kai'Sa Matchup Summary
Best Swain vs Kai'Sa Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Kai'Sa as Swain
Tips for Playing as Swain against Kai'Sa
While laning, try to use Death's Hand's piercing damage to damage opponents from a safe distance.
Vision of Empire is quite difficult to land on its own, look for skirmishes around the map where enemies may be distracted or crowd controlled so you can land it more easily.
If you're having trouble rooting an enemy with Nevermove, try throwing it at opponents when they are near their minions so the explosion surprises them.
Demonic Ascension may make Swain very hard to kill but he's pretty easy to get away from. Try building items that can slow opponents to keep them in range if their mobility is overwhelming.
Advice to Win Against Kai'Sa
Kai'Sa is very vulnerable to getting outranged by mages and long range carries.
Make sure to place wards in your blind spots so you can see Kai'Sa coming.
Kai'Sa is very good at picking off isolated enemies. Stick together against her.
Swain vs Kai'Sa Counter Stats
How to Counter Kai'Sa with Swain in LoL
The stat comparisons shown here underscore several strategic Swain versus Kai'Sa counter stats that can help you appreciate the distinctions between the pair. As an example, Swain’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Kai'Sa’s ratio of NaN, showing that Swain may be more central to his team's team fighting capacity than Kai'Sa. This observation is in large part caused by the differences in assists.
Swain usually has a slightly smaller longest killing spree than his counter does. On average, he takes more damage than Kai'Sa. This often reflects different amounts of tankyness, yet it can also illustrate that the champ with increased health has less mobility and thus is not able to escape further damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Swain and Kai'Sa
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Who is Better, Swain or Kai'Sa?
Both League champs are great. Both champs have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Swain usually wins when trying to fight Kai'Sa, with a 55.7% win rate. Thus, Swain makes a fantastic counter to Kai'Sa.
While Swain does have a much higher winrate than Kai'Sa, when they face off with one another, Swain also has a greater level of difficulty that makes him a more time consuming character to learn and master. You don't need to be too worried when picking Swain into Kai'Saas his relative depth means that you may not be able to reach his full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Moreover, Swain has some amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Kai'Sa. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when facing champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion in League of Legends, in Swain vs Kai'Sa matchups, Swain is the better champion with a noticably higher win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during team fights.
Swain is a great counter to Kai'Sa. You will do well by focussing your strategy on keeping up your gold and cs and destroying objectives. If you do that, you should hold your own as Swain against Kai'Sa.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Swain to counter Kai'Sa during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to learn a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you listen to the build and stats displayed above, you will grow your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Swain typically picks up less CS relative to Kai'Sa. Champions who on average don't get many minion kills usualy don't require much CS to be effective, such as supports. These kinds of champions 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 situation, try to exceed the values displayed on this page to do well.
The most important items to have in your Swain versus Kai'Sa build consist of Rylai's Crystal Scepter, Malignance, and Riftmaker. When Swain included at least these three pieces in his build, he did a lot better vs Kai'Sa than with many other commonly used builds. In fact, Swain had an average winrate of 55.7% battling Kai'Sa with this counter build.
To have the greatest chance of vanquishing Kai'Sa as Swain, you should take the Summon Aery, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Scorch, Conditioning, and Overgrowth runes from the Sorcery and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the runes that we analyzed for Swain vs Kai'Sa face-offs, this mix of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 55.7% win rate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to beat Kai'Sa as Swain are shown for every ranked division. If you would like to narrow the statistics and builds to a distinct skill level, you can use the selection menu earlier in the counter matchup guide.