Swain vs Kennen
How to Beat Kennen as Swain
based on 1,470 Swain vs Kennen matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Swain vs Kennen Matchup Summary
Best Swain vs Kennen Counter Build
Items
Starter Items
Early Items
Core Swain Items
Optional Items
Summoner Spells
Skill Order
Runes
Guide to Countering Kennen as Swain
Tips for Playing as Swain against Kennen
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 Kennen
Consider playing a bit more cautiously around Kennen when you have a Mark of the Storm debuff. If he hits you with 3 Marks of the Storm, you will get stunned.
Kennen is flimsy by nature - turn and attack him if he gets careless with Lightning Rush.
Swain vs Kennen Counter Stats
How to Counter Kennen with Swain in LoL
The stats shown on this page feature several strategic Swain vs. Kennen counter statistics that may help us realize the differences and similarities between the pair. As an example, Swain’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Kennen’s ratio of NaN, showing that Swain may be more central to his team's team fighting capability than Kennen. This observation is largely caused by the differences in assists.
Swain typically has a similar longest kill spree as his counter does. On average, he receives more damage than Kennen. This is usually reflective of differing health capacities; however, it can also indicate that the one champion has less mobility and thus is not able to flee from additional damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Swain and Kennen
Damage Types Compared
Champion Playstyles Compared
Who is Better, Swain or Kennen?
Both League of Legends champions are great. Both champs have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Swain usually wins when taking on Kennen, with a 55.2% win rate. Therefore, Swain makes a fantastic counter to Kennen.
While Swain does have a much higher winrate than Kennen, when facing one another, Swain also has a much greater difficulty level that makes him a more difficult champ to learn. You should be be fine when picking Swain into Kennenas his relative depth means that 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 Kennen. 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 Kennen 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 teammates during late stage team fights.
Swain is a great counter to Kennen. You will do well by focussing your gameplay on increasing your gold income and taking out objectives. If you are able to do that, you should do very well as Swain against Kennen.
Other Champion Matchups Against Swain
Additional Information for Swain Players
How We Calculated Our Swain vs Kennen Build and Stats
Other Useful Resources
Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Swain in order to counter Kennen during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to gather a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you listen to the build and stats shown here, you should grow your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Swain most often picks up less CS as Kennen. Champions who on average don't earn many minion kills typically don't need much CS to be valuable teammates, such as sup champs. These kinds of champions are able to scale well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, often require several high cost items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the numbers shown on this page to do well.
The top items to focus on in your Swain versus Kennen build include Rylai's Crystal Scepter, Malignance, and Liandry's Torment. When Swain incorporated at least these three items in his build, he did a lot better against Kennen than with most other typical item sets. In fact, Swain had an average win rate of 55.2% when playing against Kennen with these items in his kit.
To have the best probability of coming out on top against Kennen as Swain, you should equip 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 we have analyed for Swain vs Kennen matchups, this blending of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 55.2% winrate overall.
If you need to see Swain versus Kennen tips and counter stats for a a distinct player tier, feel free to select one from the selection menu provided above. If viewing for the first time, the statistics and strategies displayed are computed using every match finished with these champs.