Katarina vs Swain
How to Beat Swain as Katarina
based on 4,793 Katarina vs Swain matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Katarina vs Swain Matchup Summary
Best Katarina vs Swain Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Swain as Katarina
Tips for Playing as Katarina against Swain
Picking up Daggers will significantly reduce Shunpo's cooldown.
Try waiting until the other team is distracted with fighting your team, and use Shunpo to teleport into the fray and unleash a devastating Death Lotus.
Using Shunpo on an allied Champion, Dagger, or minion can be a great escape tactic.
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.
Katarina vs Swain Counter Stats
How to Counter Swain with Katarina in LoL
The stat comparisons shown here emphasize some critical Katarina vs. Swain matchup statistics that can help you distinguish the differences between the two. For instance, Katarina’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Swain’s ratio of NaN, highlighting that Katarina may be more central to her team's team fighting potential than Swain. This observation is largely caused by the difference in kills.
Katarina typically has a much larger longest killing spree than her enemy does. Commonly, she receives less damage than Swain. This often reflects different amounts of tankyness, yet it can also show that the one champ has less agility and thus is not able to flee from further damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Katarina and Swain
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Who is Better, Katarina or Swain?
Both League champs are great. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Katarina usually loses when taking on Swain, with a 48.4% win rate. Therefore, Katarina makes a bad counter to Swain.
While Katarina does have a lower win rate compared to Swain, when facing one another, Katarina also has a greater level of difficulty that makes her a more difficult character to pick up and master. You still need to be cautious when picking Katarina into Swainas her relative depth means that you may not be able to reach her full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Moreover, Katarina also has only a small amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Swain. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when facing champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion overall in League of Legends, in Katarina vs Swain matchups, Swain is the better champion with a lower win rate, similar champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during team fights.
Katarina is a somewhat poor counter to Swain. Make sure you focus your play on maximizing your CS and clearing objectives. If you do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Katarina against Swain.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Katarina to counter Swain during both the laning 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 tips displayed here, you should increase your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Katarina usually picks up more CS relative to Swain. Champs who typically don't get much CS usualy don't have to have much CS to be effective, such as sup champs. They are able to scale properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually need a lot of items to be effective. In either situation, try to exceed the values reported on this page to do well.
The top items to prioritize in your Katarina versus Swain build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Nashor's Tooth, and Stormsurge. When Katarina bought at least these three items in her build, she performed significantly better against Swain than with most other common builds. In fact, Katarina had an average win rate of 48.4% when countering Swain with these items in her kit.
To have the greatest probability of defeating Swain as Katarina, Katarina players should use the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Tenacity, Last Stand, Sudden Impact, and Relentless Hunter runes from the Precision and Domination rune sets. Out of all the rune sets players chose for Katarina vs Swain matchups, this mixture of runes resulted in the best win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 48.4% winrate overall.
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