Swain vs Rakan
How to Beat Rakan as Swain
based on 4,049 Swain vs Rakan matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Swain vs Rakan Matchup Summary
Best Swain vs Rakan Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Rakan as Swain
Tips for Playing as Swain against Rakan
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 Rakan
Champions with crowd control that can be applied quickly excel against Rakan.
Catching Rakan with no allies around severely inhibits his mobility. Try to find him alone.
Rakan's movement abilities forecast their destination. Try to use this to your advantage.
Swain vs Rakan Counter Stats
How to Counter Rakan with Swain in LoL
The stats shown here clarify several influential Swain versus Rakan matchup statistics that can help you appreciate the differences and similarities between the pair. Swain’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Rakan’s KDA ratio of NaN, showing that Swain may be more central to his team's team fighting capacity than Rakan. This observation is in large part caused by the difference in kills.
Swain usually has a much larger longest killing spree than his enemy does. On average, he receives more damage than Rakan. This commonly reflects different amounts of tankyness; however, it can also indicate that the one champ has less agility and thus is not able to kite away from additional damage when poked or engaged.
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Who is Better, Swain or Rakan?
Both League champs are great. Both champs have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Swain usually wins when taking on Rakan, with a 54.9% win rate. Thus, Swain makes a great counter to Rakan.
While Swain does have a much higher win rate than Rakan, when they face off with one another, Swain also has a much greater level of difficulty that makes him a more complex champion to learn and master. You should be be fine when picking Swain into Rakanas his relative depth means 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 Rakan. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when trying to counter champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion in League of Legends, in Swain vs Rakan 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 allied champions during teamfights.
Swain is a great counter to Rakan. Focus your actions on increasing your CS and taking out objectives. If you do that, you should hold your own as Swain against Rakan.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Swain in order to counter Rakan during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to gather a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you mind the build and stats presented above, you will increase your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Swain usually gets much more CS relative to Rakan. Champs who on average don't earn much CS usualy don't need much CS to be effective, such as supports. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually require a lot of items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the values reported here to do well.
The top items to use in your Swain versus Rakan build include Malignance, Solstice Sleigh, and Liandry's Torment. When Swain included at least these three items in his build, he performed much better vs Rakan than with many other commonly used builds. In fact, Swain boasted an average win rate of 54.9% battling Rakan with these items in his kit.
To have the best likelihood of defeating Rakan as Swain, Swain players should use the Electrocute, Cheap Shot, Eyeball Collection, Ultimate Hunter, Coup de Grace, and Presence of Mind runes from the Domination and Precision rune sets. Of all the runes players used for Swain vs Rakan LoL games, this combination of runes yielded the best win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 54.9% winrate overall.
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