Swain vs Kassadin
How to Beat Kassadin as Swain
based on 1,888 Swain vs Kassadin matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Swain vs Kassadin Matchup Summary
Best Swain vs Kassadin Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Kassadin as Swain
Tips for Playing as Swain against Kassadin
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.
Advice to Win Against Kassadin
It takes 6 spell casts for Kassadin's slow, Force Pulse, to become castable. If he levels up that ability, judiciously use your own skills while laning against him.
Kassadin deals mostly magic damage. If he's doing well consider buying magic resist items like Mercury's Treads and Banshee's Veil.
Each time Kassadin consecutively uses Riftwalk, he pays more and more mana. Keep this in mind as you chase him.
Swain vs Kassadin Counter Stats
How to Counter Kassadin with Swain in LoL
The stats shown on this page feature several valuable Swain versus Kassadin matchup stats that can help us figure out the differences and similarities between the two. Swain’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Kassadin’s KDA ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Swain may be more central to his team's team fighting potential than Kassadin. This observation is in large part caused by the differences in assists.
Swain typically has a slightly smaller longest kill spree than his foe does. On average, he takes a similar amount of damage to Kassadin. This commonly reflects differing health capacities; however, it can also imply that the champion with higher HP has less mobility and thus is unable to flee from further harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Swain and Kassadin
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Who is Better, Swain or Kassadin?
Both League of Legends champions are great. Both champs have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Swain usually wins when facing off against Kassadin, with a 51.3% win rate. Thus, Swain makes a good counter for Kassadin.
While Swain does have a higher winrate compared to Kassadin, when they face off with one another, Swain also has a greater difficulty level that makes him a more complex champion to pick up and master. You still need to be cautious when picking Swain into Kassadinas his relative depth means that you may not be able to reach his full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Additionally, Swain also has some amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Kassadin. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when fighting champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion in League of Legends, in Swain vs Kassadin matchups, Swain is the better champion with a higher win rate, similar champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during late stage team fights.
Swain is a decent counter for Kassadin. Make sure you focus your gameplay on keeping up your CS and destroying objectives. If you can do that, you should hold your own as Swain against Kassadin.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Swain to counter Kassadin during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to learn a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you mind the build and tips presented above, you will grow your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Swain often accumulates less CS as Kassadin. Champs who typically don't get many minion kills often don't need much CS to be valuable teammates, such as supports. These kinds of champions are able to scale well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually have to have many items to be effective. In either situation, try to surpass the values shown here to do well.
The best items to have in your Swain versus Kassadin build consist of Rylai's Crystal Scepter, Malignance, and Zhonya's Hourglass. When Swain combined at least these three pieces in his build, he performed much better vs Kassadin than with many other common counter builds. In fact, Swain had an average winrate of 51.3% when playing against Kassadin with this build.
To have the best likelihood of defeating Kassadin 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 runes that we analyzed for Swain vs Kassadin matchups, this order of runes yielded the best win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 51.3% win rate overall.
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