Swain vs Kha'Zix
How to Beat Kha'Zix as Swain
based on 3,694 Swain vs Kha'Zix matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Swain vs Kha'Zix Matchup Summary
Best Swain vs Kha'Zix Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Kha'Zix as Swain
Tips for Playing as Swain against Kha'Zix
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 Kha'Zix
Taste Their Fear deals bonus damage to targets that are isolated. Gain an advantage by fighting near allied minions, champions, or turrets.
Leap and Void Assault have long cooldowns. Kha'Zix is very vulnerable when these are not available.
Swain vs Kha'Zix Counter Stats
How to Counter Kha'Zix with Swain in LoL
The stat comparisons provided here emphasize some critical Swain versus Kha'Zix matchup statistics that can help us grasp the differences and similarities between the two. As an example, Swain’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Kha'Zix’s ratio of NaN, highlighting that Swain may be more central to his team's team fighting capacity than Kha'Zix..
Swain usually has a slightly smaller longest killing spree than his enemy does. Commonly, he receives a similar amount of damage to Kha'Zix. This typically indicates differing health capacities, yet it can also imply that the one champion has less agility and thus is unable to flee from additional damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Swain and Kha'Zix
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Who is Better, Swain or Kha'Zix?
Both League of Legends champions are great. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Swain usually wins when trying to fight Kha'Zix, with a 52.1% win rate. Thus, Swain makes a good counter to Kha'Zix.
While Swain does have a higher win rate compared to Kha'Zix, when on opposite teams, Swain also has a greater difficulty level that makes him a more challenging champ to learn and master. You should be be fine when picking Swain into Kha'Zixas his relative depth means you may not be able to reach his full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Moreover, Swain also has some amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Kha'Zix. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when trying to counter 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 Kha'Zix 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 allies during teamfights.
Swain is an above average counter for Kha'Zix. Focus your play on keeping up your CS and taking out objectives. If you are able to do that, you should do very well as Swain against Kha'Zix.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Swain to counter Kha'Zix during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to pick up a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you listen to the build and suggestions shown here, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Swain often racks up much more CS compared to Kha'Zix. 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, often require a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the values shown on this page to do well.
The top items to prioritize in your Swain versus Kha'Zix build consist of Rylai's Crystal Scepter, Malignance, and Liandry's Torment. When Swain used at least these three pieces in his build, he did a lot better countering Kha'Zix than with most other commonly used counter builds. In fact, Swain boasted an average win rate of 52.1% battling Kha'Zix with this build.
To have the best probability of defeating Kha'Zix as Swain, Swain players should use the Electrocute, Cheap Shot, Eyeball Collection, Ultimate Hunter, Coup de Grace, and Presence of Mind runes from the Domination and Precision rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations we have analyed for Swain vs Kha'Zix clashes, this set of runes yielded the highest win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 52.1% winrate overall.
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