Swain vs Kled
How to Beat Kled as Swain
based on 1,776 Swain vs Kled matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Swain vs Kled Matchup Summary
Best Swain vs Kled Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Kled as Swain
Tips for Playing as Swain against Kled
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 Kled
Watch Kled's courage bar when he's off his mount - when it reaches 100%, he will remount and regain a significant amount of health.
Kled is much more threatening when he has Violent Tendencies ready.
Kled generates courage by damaging enemies with his Pocket Pistol and basic attacks, killing minions, and attacking structures or epic monsters.
Swain vs Kled Counter Stats
How to Counter Kled with Swain in LoL
The stats shown here clarify some influential Swain vs. Kled matchup stats that can help you distinguish the differences between the pair. As an example, Swain’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Kled’s ratio of NaN, showing that Swain may be more central to his team's team fighting capacity than Kled. This observation is largely a result of the differences in assists.
Swain normally has a slightly smaller longest killing spree than his counter does. Commonly, he receives less damage than Kled. This is usually reflective of differing health capacities, but it can also illustrate that the one champion has less agility and thus is unable to kite away from additional harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Swain and Kled
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Who is Better, Swain or Kled?
Both League champs are great champions. Both champs have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Swain usually fairs equally well when facing off against Kled, with a 50.6% win rate. Therefore, Swain makes an ok counter for Kled.
While Swain does have a higher winrate compared to Kled, when they face off with one another, Swain also has a greater learning curve that makes him a more time consuming champion to develop with. You should be careful when picking Swain into Kledas his relative depth means you may not be able to reach his full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Moreover, Swain also has some amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Kled. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when facing champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion overall in League of Legends, in Swain vs Kled matchups, Swain is the better champ with a similar 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 decent counter for Kled. You will do well by focussing your play on keeping up your CS and taking out objectives. If you do that, you should hold your own as Swain against Kled.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Swain in order to counter Kled during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to pick up a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and stats shown above, you will increase your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Swain often gets less CS as Kled. Champs who typically don't acquire much CS typically don't have to have much CS to be effective, such as supports. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually have to have many items to be effective. In either case, try to exceed the values reported here to do well.
The ideal items to have in your Swain versus Kled build include Rylai's Crystal Scepter, Zhonya's Hourglass, and Liandry's Torment. When Swain combined at least these three pieces in his build, he did much better when facing Kled than with many other commonly used counter builds. In fact, Swain had an average winrate of 50.6% battling Kled with this build.
To have the highest chance of annihilating Kled as Swain, you should equip the Conqueror, Presence of Mind, Legend: Tenacity, Last Stand, Conditioning, and Overgrowth runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Of all the rune sets players picked for Swain vs Kled battles, this composite of runes yielded the best win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 50.6% win rate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to beat Kled as Swain are given for all ranked divisions. If you want to narrow the stats and builds to an individual skill level, you should use the selection menu at the top of this page.