Chaaaaaaaarge!!! can be cast at a great range. Try and predict where the enemy team will be by the time you reach them.
The last hit of Violent Tendencies deals more damage than the first three - make sure you hit it!
Kled generates some courage by killing minions, but gets much more from fighting Champions.
Buying an item with Grievous Wounds will make Swain much easier to kill during his Demonic Ascension.
Swain's passive is very potent if you are immobilized. Make sure to be extra careful around enemies who have immobilizing effects.
High mobility counters all of Swain's basic abilities: Death's Hand does more damage the closer he is, Vision of Empire has a very long delay and Nevermove must start returning back to him to be dangerous.
The stats shown on this page underscore some strategic Kled vs. Swain matchup stats that may help us explain the differences between the two. As an example, Kled’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Swain’s KDA ratio of NaN, highlighting that Kled may be more central to his team's team fighting effectiveness than Swain..
Kled often has a slightly larger longest killing spree than his matchup does. Typically, he takes more damage than Swain. This typically indicates different amounts of tankyness, but it can also illustrate that the one champ has less agility and thus is not able to kite away from additional damage when poked or engaged.
Both League of Legends champions are great. Both champs have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Kled usually fairs equally well when trying to fight Swain, with a 49.4% win rate. Therefore, Kled makes an ok counter to Swain.
While Kled does have a lower winrate than Swain, when on opposite teams, Kled also has a lower level of difficulty that makes him a less complex champion to pick up and master. You still need to be cautious when picking Kled into Swainas his relative depth means you may not be able to reach his full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Additionally, Kled has some amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Swain. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when facing champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion in League of Legends, in Kled vs Swain matchups, Swain is the better champ with a similar win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during teamfights.
Kled is a somewhat poor counter to Swain. Make sure you focus your actions on increasing your CS and taking out objectives. If you are able to do that, you should do very well as Kled against Swain.
To learn all of the intricacies of Kled to counter Swain during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to gather a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you mind the build and stats displayed above, you should grow your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Kled typically accumulates more CS compared to Swain. Champs who typically don't get much CS typically don't need much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, often require several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the numbers shown here to do well.
The most important items to focus on in your Kled versus Swain build consist of Sterak's Gage, Titanic Hydra, and Sundered Sky. When Kled used at least these three items in his build, he did significantly better versus Swain than with most other typical item sets. In fact, Kled boasted an average win rate of 49.4% battling Swain with this build.
To have the best likelihood of defeating Swain as Kled, you should take the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Last Stand, Demolish, and Bone Plating runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Of all the rune builds that we analyzed for Kled vs Swain matchups, this sequence of runes yielded the highest win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 49.4% winrate overall.
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