Swain vs K'Sante
How to Beat K'Sante as Swain
based on 2,138 Swain vs K'Sante matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Swain vs K'Sante Matchup Summary
Best Swain vs K'Sante Counter Build
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Guide to Countering K'Sante as Swain
Tips for Playing as Swain against K'Sante
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 K'Sante
Stay spread out to minimize the impact of Lee Sin's ultimate, Dragon's Rage.
Lee Sin relies heavily on following up with his abilities. Use disables to prevent him from chaining together his abilities and attacks.
Lee Sin has powerful tools to combat physical damage in Iron Will and Cripple but he is still vulnerable to magic damage.
Swain vs K'Sante Counter Stats
How to Counter K'Sante with Swain in LoL
The stats shown on this page feature some influential Swain vs. K'Sante matchup stats that may help us grasp the differences between the two. For instance, Swain’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than K'Sante’s ratio of NaN, highlighting that Swain may be more central to his team's team fighting capability than K'Sante. This observation is in large part fueled by the differences in assists.
Swain often has a similar longest killing spree as his enemy does. Typically, he takes a similar amount of damage to K'Sante. This typically indicates different amounts of tankyness, yet it can also illustrate that the champion with higher HP has less agility and thus is not able to flee from additional damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Swain and K'Sante
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Who is Better, Swain or K'Sante?
Both LoL champions are great. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Swain usually wins when facing off against K'Sante, with a 54.8% win rate. As a result, Swain makes a great counter to K'Sante.
While Swain does have a much higher winrate compared to K'Sante, when they face off with one another, Swain also has a lower learning curve that makes him a less challenging character to learn. You should be be fine when picking Swain into K'Santeas his relative depth means 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 K'Sante. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when fighting champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Swain vs K'Sante matchups, Swain is the better champ with a noticably higher win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during late stage team fights.
Swain is a great counter to K'Sante. You will do well by focussing your gameplay on keeping up your CS and taking out objectives. If you can do that, you should do very well as Swain against K'Sante.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Swain in order to counter K'Sante during both the early game 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 mind the build and stats shown above, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Swain most often racks up less CS compared to K'Sante. Champions who on average don't earn many minion kills typically don't need much CS to be effective, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically require a lot of items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the values displayed here to do well.
The most important items to prioritize in your Swain versus K'Sante build consist of Rylai's Crystal Scepter, Malignance, and Zhonya's Hourglass. When Swain included at least these three pieces in his build, he did significantly better when fighting K'Sante than with many other typical builds. In fact, Swain had an average winrate of 54.8% when playing against K'Sante with these items in his kit.
To have the greatest probability of crushing K'Sante 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 builds players picked for Swain vs K'Sante LoL games, this combo of runes resulted in the highest win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 54.8% winrate overall.
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