Swain vs Akshan
How to Beat Akshan as Swain
based on 2,587 Swain vs Akshan matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Swain vs Akshan Matchup Summary
Best Swain vs Akshan Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Akshan as Swain
Tips for Playing as Swain against Akshan
While laning, try to use Death's Hand's piercing damage to damage opponents from a safe distance.
Vision of Empire is quite difficult to land on its own, look for skirmishes around the map where enemies may be distracted or crowd controlled so you can land it more easily.
If you're having trouble rooting an enemy with Nevermove, try throwing it at opponents when they are near their minions so the explosion surprises them.
Demonic Ascension may make Swain very hard to kill but he's pretty easy to get away from. Try building items that can slow opponents to keep them in range if their mobility is overwhelming.
Swain vs Akshan Counter Stats
How to Counter Akshan with Swain in LoL
The stat comparisons shown on this page clarify several critical Swain versus Akshan matchup stats that can help us explain the distinctions between the two. As an example, Swain’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Akshan’s ratio of NaN, showing that Swain may be more central to his team's team fighting capability than Akshan. This observation is largely fueled by the differences in assists.
Swain often has a slightly smaller longest killing spree than his counter does. Typically, he receives more damage than Akshan. This often reflects different amounts of tankyness; however, it can also show that the champ with higher HP has less agility and thus is unable to kite away from additional harm when poked or engaged.
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Who is Better, Swain or Akshan?
Both League of Legends champions are great. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Swain usually wins when trying to fight Akshan, with a 51.8% win rate. As a result, Swain makes a good counter to Akshan.
While Swain does have a higher win rate than Akshan, when they face off with one another, Swain also has a much greater learning curve that makes him a more time consuming character to pick up and master. You should be careful when picking Swain into Akshanas his relative depth means that you may not be able to unleash his full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Furthermore, Swain also has some amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Akshan. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when trying to counter champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion in League of Legends, in Swain vs Akshan matchups, Swain is the better champ with a higher win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during teamfights.
Swain is a decent counter to Akshan. Focus your tactics on keeping up your gold income and taking out objectives. If you do that, you should do very well as Swain against Akshan.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Swain in order to counter Akshan during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to pick up a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you mind the build and suggestions shown here, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Swain typically picks up less CS compared to Akshan. Champs who on average don't get many minion kills often don't have to have much CS to be effective, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually require a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the numbers displayed here to do well.
The best items to use in your Swain versus Akshan build consist of Rylai's Crystal Scepter, Malignance, and Liandry's Torment. When Swain bought at least these three pieces in his build, he did a lot better versus Akshan than with many other commonly used counter builds. In fact, Swain had an average win rate of 51.8% when countering Akshan with this build.
To have the highest probability of beating Akshan as Swain, Swain players should equip the Conqueror, Presence of Mind, Legend: Tenacity, Last Stand, Conditioning, and Overgrowth runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Of all the rune combinations players chose for Swain vs Akshan matchups, this set of runes yielded the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 51.8% win rate overall.
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