K'Sante vs Swain
How to Beat Swain as K'Sante
based on 2,138 K'Sante vs Swain matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
K'Sante vs Swain Matchup Summary
Best K'Sante vs Swain Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Swain as K'Sante
Tips for Playing as K'Sante against Swain
Take advantage of Flurry by weaving in basic attacks between spell casts - this maximizes damage output and minimizes Energy loss.
Use Sonic Wave before Dragon's Rage so you can chase the target with Resonating Strike.
Self-casting Safeguard and using Iron Will are powerful tools for killing neutral monsters (in the jungle).
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.
K'Sante vs Swain Counter Stats
How to Counter Swain with K'Sante in LoL
The stat comparisons provided here emphasize some strategic K'Sante versus Swain counter stats that can help us appreciate the differences between the pair. As an example, K'Sante’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Swain’s KDA ratio of NaN, showing that K'Sante may be more central to their team's team fighting capacity than Swain..
K'Sante usually has a similar longest kill spree as their opponent does. Typically, they takes a similar amount of damage to Swain. This commonly reflects differing health capacities, but it can also illustrate that the champ with higher health has less agility and thus is unable to kite away from additional damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between K'Sante and Swain
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Who is Better, K'Sante or Swain?
Both League of Legends champions are great champions. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, K'Sante usually loses when trying to fight Swain, with a 45.2% win rate. Therefore, K'Sante makes a poor counter to Swain.
While K'Sante does have a much lower winrate than Swain, when facing one another, K'Sante also has a greater learning curve that makes them a more challenging champion to develop with. You may get destroyed when picking K'Sante into Swainas their relative depth means you may not be able to unleash their full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Furthermore, K'Sante has some amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Swain. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when facing champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in K'Sante vs Swain matchups, Swain is the better champion with a much lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during team fights.
K'Sante is a bad counter for Swain. Focus your tactics on maximizing your CS and destroying objectives. If you are able to do that, you should be able to stand on your own as K'Sante against Swain.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of K'Sante to counter Swain during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to learn a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you mind the build and suggestions displayed above, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
K'Sante often picks up more CS relative to Swain. Champions who typically don't take much CS typically don't require much CS to be effective, such as sup champs. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically have to have a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to exceed the values reported here to do well.
The best items to have in your K'Sante versus Swain build consist of Thornmail, Iceborn Gauntlet, and Jak'Sho, The Protean. When K'Sante bought at least these three pieces in their build, they performed significantly better vs. Swain than with most other typical item sets. In fact, K'Sante had an average winrate of 45.2% when playing against Swain with this build.
To have the greatest probability of crushing Swain as K'Sante, you should equip the Grasp of the Undying, Demolish, Conditioning, Overgrowth, Biscuit Delivery, and Approach Velocity runes from the Resolve and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the runes that we analyzed for K'Sante vs Swain battles, this mixture of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 45.2% winrate overall.
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