Swain vs Kindred
How to Beat Kindred as Swain
based on 2,744 Swain vs Kindred matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Swain vs Kindred Matchup Summary
Best Swain vs Kindred Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Kindred as Swain
Tips for Playing as Swain against Kindred
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 Kindred
When Kindred uses Lamb's Respite get inside, it stops all champions from dying.
Kindred is fragile - turn the pressure up on her, and she will be forced to play cautiously.
Clear the Hunts Wolf activates on jungle camps to slow down Kindred's damage output.
Swain vs Kindred Counter Stats
How to Counter Kindred with Swain in LoL
The stats shown here feature several critical Swain versus Kindred counter statistics that may help us figure out the distinctions between the two. As an example, Swain’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Kindred’s KDA ratio of NaN, indicating that Swain may be more central to his team's team fighting capacity than Kindred..
Swain often has a slightly smaller longest kill spree than his counter does. On average, he takes a similar amount of damage to Kindred. This often reflects differing health capacities; however, it can also imply that the champ with increased health has less mobility and thus is not able to escape further damage when engaged or poked.
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Who is Better, Swain or Kindred?
Both League champions are great champions. Both champs have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Swain usually wins when taking on Kindred, with a 52.2% win rate. As a result, Swain makes a good counter for Kindred.
While Swain does have a higher winrate compared to Kindred, when facing one another, Swain also has a much greater difficulty level that makes him a more complex champ to learn. You should be be fine when picking Swain into Kindredas his relative depth means you may not be able to unleash his full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Additionally, Swain also has some amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Kindred. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when facing champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Swain vs Kindred 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 teammates during team fights.
Swain is a good counter for Kindred. Focus your play on increasing your CS and taking out objectives. If you are able to do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Swain against Kindred.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Swain in order to counter Kindred during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to learn a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you mind the build and suggestions displayed here, you will grow your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Swain often gets more CS relative to Kindred. Champions who typically don't get much CS usualy don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as sup champs. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling properly off of their skills, stats, 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 surpass the values displayed on this page to do well.
The best items to prioritize in your Swain versus Kindred build include Rylai's Crystal Scepter, Malignance, and Liandry's Torment. When Swain combined at least these three pieces in his build, he performed much better when facing Kindred than with most other typical builds. In fact, Swain boasted an average win rate of 52.2% when countering Kindred with this build.
To have the highest chance of coming out on top against Kindred as Swain, Swain players should take the Conqueror, Presence of Mind, Legend: Tenacity, Last Stand, Conditioning, and Overgrowth runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Of all the rune sets players picked for Swain vs Kindred counter picks, this blending of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 52.2% win rate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to beat Kindred as Swain are given for all skill levels combined. If you want to narrow the stats and builds to a distinct player tier, you may use the selection menu located at the top of this page.