Swain vs Kalista
How to Beat Kalista as Swain
based on 1,244 Swain vs Kalista matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Swain vs Kalista Matchup Summary
Best Swain vs Kalista Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Kalista as Swain
Tips for Playing as Swain against Kalista
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 Kalista
Kalista's mobility is dependent upon attacking. This means it is low when she is outside of her attack range and that Attack Speed slows reduce the amount of distance she can cover in an engagement.
If you can break line of sight from Kalista, including through brush, her basic attacks will miss you, falling harmlessly to the ground.
Kalista cannot cancel her basic attack wind up. While she is very mobile, this offers a window to land spells on her if you anticipate when she will begin attacking.
Swain vs Kalista Counter Stats
How to Counter Kalista with Swain in LoL
The stats shown here clarify some strategic Swain versus Kalista counter stats that can help us distinguish the distinctions between these two champs. For instance, Swain’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Kalista’s KDA ratio of NaN, indicating that Swain may be more central to his team's team fighting capability than Kalista. This observation is largely fueled by the differences in assists.
Swain normally has a slightly smaller longest killing spree than his enemy does. Typically, he receives more damage than Kalista. This often reflects different amounts of tankyness; however, it can also hint that the champ with increased health has less agility and thus is unable to flee from further harm when poked or engaged.
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Who is Better, Swain or Kalista?
Both LoL champs are great. Both champs have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Swain usually wins when facing off against Kalista, with a 54.3% win rate. Thus, Swain makes a great counter for Kalista.
While Swain does have a much higher winrate than Kalista, when on opposite teams, Swain also has a greater difficulty level that makes him a more complex character to learn and master. You don't need to be too worried when picking Swain into Kalistaas his relative depth means that you may not be able to unleash his full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Moreover, Swain also has some amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Kalista. 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 overall in League of Legends, in Swain vs Kalista matchups, Swain is the better champ with a noticably higher win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during late stage team fights.
Swain is a great counter to Kalista. Make sure you focus your gameplay on keeping up your gold and cs and clearing objectives. If you can do that, you should do very well as Swain against Kalista.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Swain to counter Kalista during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to learn a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you listen to the build and tips shown here, you should increase your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Swain typically racks up less CS relative to Kalista. Champs who on average don't earn much CS often don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. They 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 have to have a lot of items to be effective. In either situation, try to exceed the numbers reported on this page to do well.
The best items to focus on in your Swain versus Kalista build consist of Malignance, Zaz'Zak's Realmspike, and Liandry's Torment. When Swain bought at least these three items in his build, he performed significantly better countering Kalista than with most other typical builds. In fact, Swain had an average winrate of 54.3% when countering Kalista with this counter build.
To have the greatest likelihood of vanquishing Kalista as Swain, you should use the Electrocute, Cheap Shot, Eyeball Collection, Ultimate Hunter, Cosmic Insight, and Triple Tonic runes from the Domination and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the rune sets players chose for Swain vs Kalista counterpicks, this mixture of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 54.3% winrate overall.
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