Swain vs Akali
How to Beat Akali as Swain
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Swain vs Akali Matchup Summary
Best Swain vs Akali Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Akali as Swain
Tips for Playing as Swain against Akali
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 Akali
Akali's Five Point Strike is powerful when used at maximum range and energy. Engage on her when she has low energy to maximize your chance of winning trades.
Return to base if your Health is low and Akali has her ultimate available.
Akali can still be hit by area effect spells while obscured inside Twilight Shroud. Doing so will briefly reveal her position.
Swain vs Akali Counter Stats
How to Counter Akali with Swain in LoL
The stat comparisons shown here feature several important Swain versus Akali counter stats that can help us grasp the distinctions between these two champs. Swain’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Akali’s ratio of NaN, showing that Swain may be more central to his team's team fighting capacity than Akali. This observation is largely a result of the differences in assists.
Swain often has a significantly smaller longest killing spree than his opponent does. On average, he receives more damage than Akali. This typically indicates different amounts of tankyness; however, it can also hint that the one champ has less mobility and thus is unable to flee from additional harm when poked or engaged.
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Who is Better, Swain or Akali?
Both League of Legends champions are great. Both champs have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Swain usually wins when trying to fight Akali, with a 53.3% win rate. Thus, Swain makes a great counter for Akali.
While Swain does have a higher winrate compared to Akali, when on opposite teams, Swain also has a greater difficulty level that makes him a more time consuming character to learn. You don't need to be too worried when picking Swain into Akalias his relative depth means you may not be able to reach his full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Additionally, Swain has some amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Akali. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when fighting champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion in League of Legends, in Swain vs Akali matchups, Swain is the better champion with a noticably higher win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during teamfights.
Swain is a great counter for Akali. You will do well by focussing your gameplay on keeping up your gold and cs and taking out objectives. If you do that, you should do very well as Swain against Akali.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Swain in order to counter Akali during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to gather a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and suggestions shown above, you should grow your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Swain on average gets less CS compared to Akali. Champs who on average don't get much CS usualy don't require much CS to be effective, such as sup champs. They are capable of scaling properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, often need many items to be effective. In either situation, try to surpass the values shown on this page to do well.
The top items to focus on in your Swain versus Akali build consist of Malignance, Zhonya's Hourglass, and Riftmaker. When Swain used at least these three items in his build, he did much better countering Akali than with many other commonly used builds. In fact, Swain boasted an average win rate of 53.3% when countering Akali with this counter build.
To have the best chance of annihilating Akali as Swain, Swain players should use the Summon Aery, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Scorch, Presence of Mind, and Last Stand runes from the Sorcery and Precision rune sets. Of all the rune sets players chose for Swain vs Akali matchups, this composite of runes yielded the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 53.3% win rate overall.
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