Akali vs Swain
How to Beat Swain as Akali
based on 3,279 Akali vs Swain matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Akali vs Swain Matchup Summary
Best Akali vs Swain Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Swain as Akali
Tips for Playing as Akali against Swain
Akali excels at killing fragile champions. Let your team initiate and then strike at the people in the back.
Twilight Shroud offers safety in even the most dangerous situations. Use that time to save up energy for a quick strike later.
Advice to Win Against Swain
Swain's passive is very potent if you are immobilized. Make sure to be extra careful around enemies who have immobilizing effects.
Buying an item with Grievous Wounds will make Swain much easier to kill during his Demonic Ascension.
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.
Akali vs Swain Counter Stats
How to Counter Swain with Akali in LoL
The stat comparisons shown here feature some vital Akali versus Swain matchup statistics that may help us appreciate the distinctions between the pair. For instance, Akali’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Swain’s ratio of NaN, showing that Akali may be more central to her team's team fighting capability than Swain. This observation is largely a result of the difference in kills.
Akali usually has a slightly larger longest kill spree than her opponent does. On average, she receives a similar amount of damage to Swain. This is usually reflective of different amounts of tankyness; however, it can also hint that the one champ has less agility and thus is not able to flee from further damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Akali and Swain
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Who is Better, Akali or Swain?
Both LoL champs are great. Both champs have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Akali usually loses when playing against Swain, with a 46.3% win rate. Thus, Akali makes a bad counter to Swain.
While Akali does have a lower win rate compared to Swain, when facing one another, Akali also has a lower learning curve that makes her a less challenging character to develop with. You may get destroyed when picking Akali into Swainas her relative depth means that you may not be able to unleash her full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Moreover, Akali also has only a small amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Swain. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when fighting champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion in League of Legends, in Akali vs Swain matchups, Swain is the better champion with a much lower win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during teamfights.
Akali is a bad counter for Swain. Make sure you focus your play on maximizing your gold income and destroying objectives. If you do that, you should hold your own as Akali against Swain.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Akali 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 tricks and insights into this matchup. If you mind the build and stats presented here, you will grow your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Akali typically picks up more CS compared to Swain. Champions who on average don't acquire many minion kills typically don't have to have much CS to be valuable teammates, such as supports. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically require many items to be effective. In either case, try to exceed the values reported here to do well.
The top items to prioritize in your Akali versus Swain build consist of Hextech Rocketbelt, Rabadon's Deathcap, and Zhonya's Hourglass. When Akali incorporated at least these three items in her build, she did much better when facing Swain than with most other common builds. In fact, Akali had an average winrate of 46.3% when countering Swain with this build.
To have the greatest chance of crushing Swain as Akali, Akali players should equip the Conqueror, Presence of Mind, Legend: Tenacity, Coup de Grace, Second Wind, and Overgrowth runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Of all the runes players picked for Akali vs Swain clashes, this set of runes resulted in the best win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 46.3% winrate overall.
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