Cassiopeia vs Swain
How to Beat Swain as Cassiopeia
based on 1,456 Cassiopeia vs Swain matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Cassiopeia vs Swain Matchup Summary
Best Cassiopeia vs Swain Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Swain as Cassiopeia
Tips for Playing as Cassiopeia against Swain
Lead your enemy when targeting with Noxious Blast to ensure the hit.
Use Twin Fang on poisoned stationary targets like monsters and units stunned by her Petrifying Gaze for maximum damage.
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.
Cassiopeia vs Swain Counter Stats
How to Counter Swain with Cassiopeia in LoL
The stats provided here clarify several valuable Cassiopeia against Swain counter statistics that can help you understand the differences and similarities between this set of champs. As an example, Cassiopeia’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Swain’s KDA ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Cassiopeia may be more central to her team's team fighting capability than Swain..
Cassiopeia often has a slightly larger longest kill spree than her counter does. Commonly, she takes less damage than Swain. This commonly reflects different amounts of tankyness; however, it can also imply that the one champion has less mobility and thus is unable to flee from additional harm when poked or engaged.
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Who is Better, Cassiopeia or Swain?
Both LoL champions are great. Both champs have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Cassiopeia usually fairs equally well when taking on Swain, with a 50.3% win rate. Thus, Cassiopeia makes an ok counter for Swain.
While Cassiopeia does have a higher win rate compared to Swain, when they face off with one another, Cassiopeia also has a greater level of difficulty that makes her a more complex champion to learn. You should be careful when picking Cassiopeia into Swainas her relative depth means you may not be able to reach her full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Moreover, Cassiopeia also has a good amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Swain. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when fighting champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Cassiopeia vs Swain matchups, Cassiopeia is the better champion with a similar win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during team fights.
Cassiopeia is a decent counter to Swain. You will do well by focussing your play on keeping up your CS and destroying objectives. If you can do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Cassiopeia against Swain.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Cassiopeia to counter Swain during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to gather a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you listen to the build and stats displayed here, you should increase your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Cassiopeia typically gets more CS as Swain. Champs who on average don't earn many minion kills typically don't have to have much CS to be effective, such as supports. They are able to scale well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually need several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to exceed the values shown on this page to do well.
The ideal items to focus on in your Cassiopeia versus Swain build include Seraph's Embrace, Rylai's Crystal Scepter, and Zhonya's Hourglass. When Cassiopeia included at least these three items in her build, she did significantly better countering Swain than with many other typical counter builds. In fact, Cassiopeia had an average win rate of 50.3% when countering Swain with these items in her kit.
To have the greatest likelihood of defeating Swain as Cassiopeia, Cassiopeia players should use the Conqueror, Presence of Mind, Legend: Tenacity, Last Stand, Manaflow Band, and Transcendence runes from the Precision and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the runes we have analyed for Cassiopeia vs Swain counter picks, this blending of runes yielded the best win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 50.3% winrate overall.
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