Azir vs Swain
How to Beat Swain as Azir
based on 2,403 Azir vs Swain matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Azir vs Swain Matchup Summary
Best Azir vs Swain Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Swain as Azir
Tips for Playing as Azir against Swain
Be a bird!
In the lane, try to position your soldiers between the enemy's minions and the enemy champion. This way you can use them both to last hit and to project threat onto your lane opponent.
Be careful about putting down both of the soldiers stored by Arise! Unless you're going all-in, always have a soldier in your back pocket if you need to escape over a wall or if you misposition your other soldier and need damage now.
Think of Emperor's Divide as a defensive ability first and foremost. Use it when the enemy engages on you or your allies. Remember that your team can walk through the soldiers summoned by Emperor's Divide and use this to your advantage when enemy melee champions engage on you.
Advice to Win Against Swain
Buying an item with Grievous Wounds will make Swain much easier to kill during his Demonic Ascension.
Swain's passive is very potent if you are immobilized. Make sure to be extra careful around enemies who have immobilizing effects.
High mobility counters all of Swain's basic abilities: Death's Hand does more damage the closer he is, Vision of Empire has a very long delay and Nevermove must start returning back to him to be dangerous.
Azir vs Swain Counter Stats
How to Counter Swain with Azir in LoL
The stat comparisons shown here feature some valuable Azir against Swain matchup stats that can help us understand the differences and similarities between the two. For instance, Azir’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Swain’s KDA ratio of NaN, indicating that Azir may be more central to his team's team fighting potential than Swain..
Azir usually has a similar longest kill spree as his enemy does. Commonly, he takes less damage than Swain. This commonly reflects differing health capacities; however, it can also show that the one champion has less mobility and thus is unable to escape further harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Azir and Swain
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Who is Better, Azir or Swain?
Both LoL champs are great champions. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Azir usually fairs equally well when playing against Swain, with a 50.2% win rate. Therefore, Azir makes an ok counter for Swain.
While Azir does have a higher winrate than Swain, when on opposite teams, Azir also has a greater difficulty level that makes him a more challenging champion to pick up and master. You should be careful when picking Azir into Swainas his relative depth means that you may not be able to reach his full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Furthermore, Azir has some amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Swain. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when trying to counter champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion overall in League of Legends, in Azir vs Swain matchups, Azir is the better champ with a similar win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during teamfights.
Azir is a decent counter to Swain. Focus your actions on maximizing your gold income and clearing objectives. If you are able to do that, you should hold your own as Azir against Swain.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Azir in order to counter Swain during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to gather a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you mind the build and suggestions displayed above, you should grow your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Azir on average picks up more CS compared to Swain. Champs who typically don't earn many minion kills usualy don't have to have much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. They 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, often have to have several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to exceed the numbers displayed on this page to do well.
The best items to focus on in your Azir versus Swain build consist of Rabadon's Deathcap, Nashor's Tooth, and Liandry's Torment. When Azir combined at least these three items in his build, he did significantly better when facing Swain than with many other commonly used counter builds. In fact, Azir had an average win rate of 50.2% when playing against Swain with this counter build.
To have the highest likelihood of defeating Swain as Azir, you should take the Conqueror, Presence of Mind, Legend: Alacrity, Coup de Grace, Manaflow Band, and Scorch runes from the Precision and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the runes that we analyzed for Azir vs Swain battles, this blending of runes yielded the best win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 50.2% win rate overall.
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