Lee Sin vs Swain
How to Beat Swain as Lee Sin
based on 4,041 Lee Sin vs Swain matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Lee Sin vs Swain Matchup Summary
Best Lee Sin vs Swain Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Swain as Lee Sin
Tips for Playing as Lee Sin against Swain
Take advantage of Flurry by weaving in basic attacks between spell casts - this maximizes damage output and minimizes Energy loss.
Self-casting Safeguard and using Iron Will are powerful tools for killing neutral monsters (in the jungle).
Use Sonic Wave before Dragon's Rage so you can chase the target with Resonating Strike.
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.
Lee Sin vs Swain Counter Stats
How to Counter Swain with Lee Sin in LoL
The stats provided here feature some important Lee Sin vs. Swain counter statistics that may help us explain the distinctions between the pair. Lee Sin’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Swain’s ratio of NaN, highlighting that Lee Sin may be more central to his team's team fighting capability than Swain..
Lee Sin often has a slightly larger longest kill spree than his opponent does. Typically, he takes more damage than Swain. This typically indicates differing health capacities; however, it can also hint that the champ with higher health has less agility and thus is not able to escape further damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Lee Sin and Swain
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Who is Better, Lee Sin or Swain?
Both LoL champions are great champions. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Lee Sin usually loses when taking on Swain, with a 45.7% win rate. Thus, Lee Sin makes a bad counter for Swain.
While Lee Sin does have a much lower win rate than Swain, when they face off with one another, Lee Sin also has a lower learning curve that makes him a less time consuming champ to pick up and master. You should expect to face a difficult match when picking Lee Sin into Swain.
Furthermore, Lee Sin also has some amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Swain. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when trying to counter champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion overall in League of Legends, in Lee Sin vs Swain matchups, Swain is the better champ with a much lower win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during late stage team fights.
Lee Sin is a garbage counter for Swain. Make sure you focus your tactics on keeping up your CS and taking out objectives. If you can do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Lee Sin against Swain.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Lee Sin to counter Swain during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to learn a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you mind the build and suggestions displayed above, you will increase your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Lee Sin often racks up less CS compared to Swain. Champions who typically don't acquire much CS typically don't have to have much CS to be valuable teammates, such as sup champs. These kinds of champions are able to scale well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, often have to have a lot of items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the values displayed on this page to do well.
The best items to have in your Lee Sin versus Swain build include Spear of Shojin, Sundered Sky, and Eclipse. When Lee Sin combined at least these three items in his build, he did significantly better vs Swain than with most other commonly used builds. In fact, Lee Sin boasted an average winrate of 45.7% when countering Swain with this build.
To have the highest likelihood of defeating Swain as Lee Sin, Lee Sin players should take the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Coup de Grace, Cosmic Insight, and Magical Footwear runes from the Precision and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the rune builds players chose for Lee Sin vs Swain face-offs, this combo of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 45.7% win rate overall.
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