Swain vs Rek'Sai
How to Beat Rek'Sai as Swain
based on 719 Swain vs Rek'Sai matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Swain vs Rek'Sai Matchup Summary
Best Swain vs Rek'Sai Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Rek'Sai as Swain
Tips for Playing as Swain against Rek'Sai
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 Rek'Sai
When Rek'Sai is near, she can see the position of you and your allies, but only if you're moving.
If you see one of Rek'Sai's tunnels, briefly stand on one of the entrances to destroy it.
Rek'Sai's Furious Bite gains damage as she builds Fury. Be very careful around her when her Fury is full.
Swain vs Rek'Sai Counter Stats
How to Counter Rek'Sai with Swain in LoL
The stat comparisons provided here feature several critical Swain versus Rek'Sai counter statistics that may help us understand the differences and similarities between the two. For instance, Swain’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Rek'Sai’s KDA ratio of NaN, highlighting that Swain may be more central to his team's team fighting capacity than Rek'Sai..
Swain often has a slightly smaller longest kill spree than his foe does. Commonly, he takes less damage than Rek'Sai. This often reflects differing health capacities, but it can also imply that the champ with higher HP has less mobility and thus is not able to escape further harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Swain and Rek'Sai
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Who is Better, Swain or Rek'Sai?
Both League champions are great champions. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Swain usually wins when trying to fight Rek'Sai, with a 51.3% win rate. Therefore, Swain makes a good counter to Rek'Sai.
While Swain does have a higher winrate than Rek'Sai, when facing one another, Swain also has a much greater level of difficulty that makes him a more challenging character to pick up and master. You still need to be cautious when picking Swain into Rek'Saias his relative depth means you may not be able to reach his full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Furthermore, Swain also has some amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Rek'Sai. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when fighting champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Swain vs Rek'Sai matchups, Swain is the better champ with a higher win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during late stage team fights.
Swain is a decent counter for Rek'Sai. Focus your play on increasing your gold income and destroying objectives. If you are able to do that, you should hold your own as Swain against Rek'Sai.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Swain in order to counter Rek'Sai during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and tips presented here, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Swain on average gets more CS relative to Rek'Sai. Champs who typically don't earn many minion kills often don't have to have 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 large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically have to have a lot of items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the numbers displayed here to do well.
The most important items to focus on in your Swain versus Rek'Sai build include Malignance, Zaz'Zak's Realmspike, and Liandry's Torment. When Swain incorporated at least these three pieces in his build, he performed a lot better versus Rek'Sai than with most other commonly used builds. In fact, Swain boasted an average winrate of 51.3% battling Rek'Sai with these items in his kit.
To have the greatest probability of crushing Rek'Sai as Swain, you should take the Conqueror, Presence of Mind, Legend: Tenacity, Last Stand, Conditioning, and Overgrowth runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Of all the rune builds players chose for Swain vs Rek'Sai counter picks, this combination of runes resulted in the best win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 51.3% winrate overall.
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