Akshan vs Swain
How to Beat Swain as Akshan
based on 2,587 Akshan vs Swain matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Akshan vs Swain Matchup Summary
Best Akshan vs Swain Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Swain as Akshan
Tips for Playing as Akshan against Swain
Raising an eyebrow in the face of danger, Akshan fights evil with dashing charisma, righteous vengeance, and a conspicuous lack of shirts. He is highly skilled in the art of stealth combat, able to evade the eyes of his enemies and reappear when they least expect him. With a keen sense of justice and a legendary death-reversing weapon, he rights the wrongs of Runeterra's many scoundrels while living by his own moral code: “Don't be an ass.”
Advice to Win Against Swain
Buying an item with Grievous Wounds will make Swain much easier to kill during his Demonic Ascension.
Swain's passive is very potent if you are immobilized. Make sure to be extra careful around enemies who have immobilizing effects.
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.
Akshan vs Swain Counter Stats
How to Counter Swain with Akshan in LoL
The stats shown here show several important Akshan vs. Swain matchup statistics that can help you interpret the differences and similarities between these two champions. As an example, Akshan’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Swain’s KDA ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Akshan may be more central to their team's team fighting potential than Swain. This observation is in large part caused by the difference in kills.
Akshan often has a slightly larger longest killing spree than their counter does. Commonly, they takes less damage than Swain. This is usually reflective of differing health capacities; however, it can also illustrate that the champ with more HP has less mobility and thus is unable to escape further harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Akshan and Swain
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Who is Better, Akshan or Swain?
Both LoL champs are great. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Akshan usually loses when playing against Swain, with a 48.2% win rate. Thus, Akshan makes a poor counter for Swain.
While Akshan does have a lower win rate than Swain, when on opposite teams, Akshan also has a much lower level of difficulty that makes them a less complex champ to learn. You still need to be cautious when picking Akshan into Swain.
Moreover, Akshan also has some amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Swain. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when trying to counter champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Akshan vs Swain matchups, Swain is the better champion with a lower win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during late stage team fights.
Akshan is a somewhat poor counter to Swain. Make sure you focus your play on maximizing your CS and taking out objectives. If you do that, you should hold your own as Akshan against Swain.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Akshan to counter Swain during both the early game 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 suggestions presented above, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Akshan often gets more CS relative to Swain. Champs who on average don't take many minion kills usualy don't have to have much CS to be effective, such as sup champs. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically need several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to exceed the values displayed here to do well.
The top items to use in your Akshan versus Swain build consist of Terminus, The Collector, and Voltaic Cyclosword. When Akshan incorporated at least these three pieces in their build, they performed much better when facing Swain than with most other typical item sets. In fact, Akshan had an average winrate of 48.2% when playing against Swain with this counter build.
To have the highest likelihood of crushing Swain as Akshan, you should equip the Press the Attack, Presence of Mind, Legend: Alacrity, Coup de Grace, Shield Bash, and Bone Plating runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Of all the rune sets we have analyed for Akshan vs Swain matchups, this sequence of runes resulted in the best win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 48.2% win rate overall.
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