Swain vs Kalista
How to Beat Kalista as Swain
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Swain vs Kalista Matchup Summary
Best Swain vs Kalista Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Kalista as Swain
Tips for Playing as Swain against Kalista
While laning, try to use Death's Hand's piercing damage to damage opponents from a safe distance.
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.
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.
Advice to Win Against Kalista
Kalista's mobility is dependent upon attacking. This means it is low when she is outside of her attack range and that Attack Speed slows reduce the amount of distance she can cover in an engagement.
If you can break line of sight from Kalista, including through brush, her basic attacks will miss you, falling harmlessly to the ground.
Kalista cannot cancel her basic attack wind up. While she is very mobile, this offers a window to land spells on her if you anticipate when she will begin attacking.
Swain vs Kalista Counter Stats
How to Counter Kalista with Swain in LoL
The stats shown on this page feature some significant Swain versus Kalista matchup statistics that may help you grasp the differences between the two. As an example, Swain’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Kalista’s KDA ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Swain may be more central to his team's team fighting capacity than Kalista. This observation is largely a result of the differences in assists.
Swain often has a slightly smaller longest kill spree than his opponent does. Commonly, he takes more damage than Kalista. This typically indicates different amounts of tankyness; however, it can also hint that the one champ has less mobility and thus is unable to escape additional harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Swain and Kalista
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Who is Better, Swain or Kalista?
Both League champions are great champions. Both champs have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Swain usually wins when playing against Kalista, with a 52.7% win rate. Thus, Swain makes a good counter to Kalista.
While Swain does have a higher winrate than Kalista, when they face off with one another, Swain also has a greater learning curve that makes him a more time consuming champion to learn. You don't need to be too worried when picking Swain into Kalistaas his relative depth means you may not be able to reach his full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Furthermore, Swain has some amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Kalista. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when fighting champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion in League of Legends, in Swain vs Kalista matchups, Swain is the better champ with a noticably higher win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during team fights.
Swain is a good counter to Kalista. Focus your play on increasing your gold and cs and clearing objectives. If you are able to do that, you should do very well as Swain against Kalista.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Swain to counter Kalista during both the lane 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 shown above, you should increase your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Swain typically gets less CS as Kalista. Champions who typically don't get many minion kills often don't require much CS to be effective, such as support champions. They are able to scale well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically require several high cost items to be effective. In either situation, try to surpass the values reported on this page to do well.
The ideal items to have in your Swain versus Kalista build include Liandry's Anguish, Zhonya's Hourglass, and Demonic Embrace. When Swain used at least these three pieces in his build, he performed significantly better vs. Kalista than with most other typical item sets. In fact, Swain had an average winrate of 52.7% when countering Kalista with this build.
To have the greatest chance of vanquishing Kalista as Swain, Swain players should take the Electrocute, Cheap Shot, Eyeball Collection, Ultimate Hunter, Perfect Timing, and Biscuit Delivery runes from the Domination and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations players chose for Swain vs Kalista counters, this mixture of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 52.7% winrate overall.
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