Swain vs Katarina
How to Beat Katarina as Swain
based on 4,793 Swain vs Katarina matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Swain vs Katarina Matchup Summary
Best Swain vs Katarina Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Katarina as Swain
Tips for Playing as Swain against Katarina
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 Katarina
Katarina's abilities deal magic damage, so even if she's building Attack Damage items, get magic resistance to counter her.
Try to save a disable for when Katarina uses her Death Lotus.
Swain vs Katarina Counter Stats
How to Counter Katarina with Swain in LoL
The stats provided here highlight several vital Swain vs. Katarina counter stats that can help us figure out the distinctions between the pair. For instance, Swain’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Katarina’s ratio of NaN, indicating that Swain may be more central to his team's team fighting effectiveness than Katarina. This observation is largely fueled by the differences in assists.
Swain usually has a significantly smaller longest kill spree than his opponent does. Typically, he receives more damage than Katarina. This is usually reflective of different amounts of tankyness; however, it can also show that the one champion has less agility and thus is unable to kite away from further damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Swain and Katarina
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Who is Better, Swain or Katarina?
Both LoL champs are great. Both champs have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Swain usually wins when trying to fight Katarina, with a 51.6% win rate. As a result, Swain makes a good counter for Katarina.
While Swain does have a higher win rate compared to Katarina, when facing one another, Swain also has a greater level of difficulty that makes him a more time consuming champion to pick up and master. You still need to be cautious when picking Swain into Katarinaas his relative depth means that you may not be able to unleash his full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Moreover, Swain also has some amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Katarina. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when fighting champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Swain vs Katarina matchups, Swain is the better champion with a higher win rate, similar champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during team fights.
Swain is a decent counter for Katarina. Focus your play on keeping up your gold income and taking out objectives. If you can do that, you should do very well as Swain against Katarina.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Swain to counter Katarina during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to learn a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you listen to the build and stats displayed here, you should grow your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Swain on average picks up less CS relative to Katarina. Champions who on average don't acquire many minion kills typically don't have to have much CS to be effective, such as sup champs. These kinds of champions are able to scale properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually need a lot of items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the numbers shown on this page to do well.
The most crucial items to use in your Swain versus Katarina build include Rylai's Crystal Scepter, Zhonya's Hourglass, and Riftmaker. When Swain included at least these three items in his build, he did significantly better vs. Katarina than with many other commonly used counter builds. In fact, Swain had an average winrate of 51.6% when countering Katarina with these items in his kit.
To have the best likelihood of vanquishing Katarina as Swain, Swain players should equip the Summon Aery, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Scorch, Conditioning, and Overgrowth runes from the Sorcery and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations players used for Swain vs Katarina clashes, this sequence of runes resulted in the best win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 51.6% winrate overall.
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