Swain Wild Rift Counter: Champions & Tips

Swain counter Wild Rift stats: All the Swain info you could want with counter picks, general counters, item counter, lane synergy and more!

The Noxian Grand General

Role: Mage | Win rate: 48.9% | Tier: A

Swain receives free health and tanky stats throughout the game, so without any resistance items Swain is still very difficult to destroy.

Counter Swain by gaining an early advantage in the early game. You need to do everything to leave Swain behind like not allowing farm, asking for ganks and trying to kill him first. Quickly buy items that cause deep wounds and magic resistance to counter Swain during the laning phase.

Find out how to counter Swain right below. These are experiences compiled through many matches with Swain.

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Champion Counter Swain

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Mid

Choose champions with strong attack ability in the early game or reduce Swain’s healing ability like Fizz.

Swain is quite weak in the early game and you need to play aggressively to gain an advantage against Swain. When Swain reaches level 5, you need to play safe and not fight him if you are not sure of victory.

Prioritize poking and harassing Swain from afar.

Stand behind the soldiers to avoid being bound by Nevermove and retreat as soon as Swain uses his ultimate.

Top

At Top, you can play aggressively with Swain in the early game, not allowing him to farm. Call on your jungler to gank Swain if he pushes the minion up. To reduce damage from Swain’s ultimate, buy magical defense items.

Swain can have difficulty clearing minion waves. You can push minions into Swain’s tower so that he misses them. However, you need to control your vision first to avoid being ganked by Swain’s jungle.

Support

Support will be the one to control Swain, using CC to prevent him from rushing into combat with his ultimate. Besides, always observe and track Swain’s movement direction to notify teammates.

Bot

ADC is always beneficial in trading based on basic attacks with Swain. Wait for Swain to use Nevermove before you attack him.

Item Counter Swain

Swain wild rift counter items list:

To reduce Swain’s ability to heal and lifesteal, you should use items that cause grievous wounds such as Mortal Reminder, Morellonomicon, Chempunk Chainsword.

Build magic resistant items that will counteract Swain: Mercury’s Treads, Spirit Visage, Force of Nature, Amaranth’s Twinguard, Dawnshroud, Wit’s End.

When you are bound by Swain, use Quicksilver Enchant to remove it.

Stasis Enchant will help you avoid damage from Swain’s ultimate.

Use items that increase lifesteal and create shields to resist Swain’s ultimate: Bloodthirster, Immortal Shieldbow.

How to counter Swain ?

Swain wild rift counter tips:

Use tactics to poke and harass Swain from afar. Always keep your distance from Swain and you need to dodge Nevermove to avoid being legs tied by him.

Swain is very strong in combat with his ultimate. Ambush and destroy Swain before the fight takes place or force a fight without Swain.

Reducing healing can reduce the ability to sustain Swain’s ultimate.

Try to have short fights with Swain, avoid long fights as it will benefit him.

Avoid gathering in crowds because it benefits Swain’s ultimate.

Strengths:

• High DPS damage.
• High AOE damage.
• Good CC.
• Good sustain in lane.
• Insanely powerful ultimate.

Weaknesses:

• Low mana.
• Immobile.
• Low range.
• Weak in the early game.

Swain Matchups

Matchups	Win Rate	Game
vs Swain vs Sett	61.02%	118
vs Swain vs Malphite	60.12%	173
vs Swain vs  Miss Fortune	62.50%	168
vs Swain vs Syndra	51.76%	85
vs Swain vs Gragas	52.94%	85
vs Swain vs Pantheon	55.73%	716
vs Swain vs Nautilus	54.50%	4352
vs Swain vs Ziggs	55.12%	127
vs Swain vs Shen	54.46%	112
vs Swain vs Leona	54.17%	2483
vs Swain vs Galio	54.70%	181
vs Swain vs Teemo	53.33%	135
vs Swain vs Alistar	53.82%	2174
vs Swain vs Caitlyn	55.36%	112
vs Swain vs Thresh	52.00%	6235