Kindred vs Swain
How to Beat Swain as Kindred
based on 2,744 Kindred vs Swain matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Kindred vs Swain Matchup Summary
Best Kindred vs Swain Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Swain as Kindred
Tips for Playing as Kindred against Swain
Pick which Hunts you want to pursue carefully; getting many of them is the key to success as the game goes on.
Don't go in first to a large team fight. Wait for your teammates to initiate.
Moving around between attacks while jungling will help you avoid damage and also generate more heals from Wolf's Frenzy.
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.
Kindred vs Swain Counter Stats
How to Counter Swain with Kindred in LoL
The stats shown on this page clarify several influential Kindred vs. Swain counter stats that can help you distinguish the differences and similarities between the pair. For instance, Kindred’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Swain’s ratio of NaN, showing that Kindred may be more central to their team's team fighting capability than Swain..
Kindred typically has a slightly larger longest kill spree than their opponent does. Commonly, they receives a similar amount of damage to Swain. This typically indicates different amounts of tankyness, but it can also show that the one champion has less mobility and thus is unable to flee from further damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Kindred and Swain
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Who is Better, Kindred or Swain?
Both LoL champions are great champions. Both have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Kindred usually loses when trying to fight Swain, with a 47.8% win rate. Therefore, Kindred makes a poor counter for Swain.
While Kindred does have a lower winrate than Swain, when on opposite teams, Kindred also has a much lower difficulty level that makes them a less challenging champ to pick up and master. You may get destroyed when picking Kindred into Swain.
Furthermore, Kindred also has almost no 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 isn't a single best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Kindred 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 teamfights.
Kindred is a bad counter to Swain. Focus your tactics on maximizing your gold and cs and clearing objectives. If you do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Kindred against Swain.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Kindred in order to counter Swain during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to gather a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you listen to the build and stats presented here, you should grow your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Kindred most often picks up less CS compared to Swain. Champions who typically don't get many minion kills usualy don't require much CS to be effective, such as sup champs. They are capable of scaling properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually have to have many items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the values displayed here to do well.
The most crucial items to prioritize in your Kindred versus Swain build consist of Terminus, Sundered Sky, and Kraken Slayer. When Kindred combined at least these three items in their build, they performed much better when fighting Swain than with most other typical counter builds. In fact, Kindred had an average win rate of 47.8% when countering Swain with these items in their kit.
To have the greatest chance of annihilating Swain as Kindred, you should use the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Coup de Grace, Sudden Impact, and Treasure Hunter runes from the Precision and Domination rune sets. Of all the rune builds players used for Kindred vs Swain battles, this sequence of runes yielded the highest win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 47.8% win rate overall.
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