Gnar vs Swain
How to Beat Swain as Gnar
based on 1,451 Gnar vs Swain matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Gnar vs Swain Matchup Summary
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Guide to Countering Swain as Gnar
Tips for Playing as Gnar against Swain
Position yourself next to walls to bait your enemies into getting stunned by your ultimate.
Know your strengths! Mini Gnar is fast, squishy, and has high sustained damage. Mega Gnar is slow, tough, and has high burst.
Managing your Rage is very important. Try to time out your transformations so you can get maximum benefit from both forms.
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.
Gnar vs Swain Counter Stats
How to Counter Swain with Gnar in LoL
The stats shown on this page underscore some valuable Gnar against Swain counter statistics that can help us realize the distinctions between the pair. As an example, Gnar’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Swain’s ratio of NaN, showing that Gnar may be more central to his team's team fighting effectiveness than Swain..
Gnar normally has a similar longest kill spree as his matchup does. On average, he receives a similar amount of damage to Swain. This commonly reflects differing health capacities, but it can also illustrate that the champion with more HP has less agility and thus is not able to flee from further damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Gnar and Swain
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Who is Better, Gnar or Swain?
Both LoL champions are great. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Gnar usually loses when trying to fight Swain, with a 45.3% win rate. Thus, Gnar makes a poor counter for Swain.
While Gnar does have a much lower win rate than Swain, when they face off with one another, Gnar also has a greater level of difficulty that makes him a more complex champ to pick up and master. You should expect to face a difficult match when picking Gnar into Swainas his relative depth means you may not be able to reach his full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Moreover, Gnar 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 isn't one best champion in League of Legends, in Gnar vs Swain matchups, Swain is the better champ with a much lower win rate, similar champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during team fights.
Gnar is a trash counter for Swain. You will do well by focussing your tactics on increasing your CS and taking out objectives. If you do that, you should do very well as Gnar against Swain.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Gnar to counter Swain during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to gather a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you mind the build and suggestions presented here, you should grow your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Gnar often racks up more CS compared to Swain. Champs who on average don't take much CS usualy don't have to have much CS to be effective, such as supports. These kinds of champions are able to scale properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually require a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to exceed the numbers reported on this page to do well.
The top items to have in your Gnar versus Swain build include Sterak's Gage, Black Cleaver, and Trinity Force. When Gnar included at least these three pieces in his build, he performed a lot better countering Swain than with most other typical builds. In fact, Gnar had an average win rate of 45.3% when countering Swain with this build.
To have the highest probability of beating Swain as Gnar, Gnar players should equip the Fleet Footwork, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Last Stand, Bone Plating, and Overgrowth runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Of all the rune sets players chose for Gnar vs Swain matchups, this sequence of runes yielded the highest win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 45.3% win rate overall.
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