Wukong vs Swain
How to Beat Swain as Wukong
based on 1,567 Wukong vs Swain matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Wukong vs Swain Matchup Summary
Best Wukong vs Swain Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Swain as Wukong
Tips for Playing as Wukong against Swain
Decoy and Nimbus Strike work well together to quickly strike your enemy and get out before they can retaliate.
Try using Decoy near brush to make an enemy overreact to your movement.
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.
Wukong vs Swain Counter Stats
How to Counter Swain with Wukong in LoL
The stat comparisons provided here underscore several important Wukong against Swain counter stats that may help us grasp the distinctions between the pair. For instance, Wukong’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Swain’s KDA ratio of NaN, showing that Wukong may be more central to his team's team fighting capability than Swain..
Wukong typically has a similar longest kill spree as his counter does. On average, he receives a similar amount of damage to Swain. This is usually reflective of different amounts of tankyness, but it can also show that the champion with higher HP has less mobility and thus is unable to flee from further harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Wukong and Swain
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Who is Better, Wukong or Swain?
Both League of Legends champs are great champions. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Wukong usually loses when playing against Swain, with a 47.6% win rate. Thus, Wukong makes a bad counter for Swain.
While Wukong does have a lower winrate than Swain, when they face off with one another, Wukong also has a much lower level of difficulty that makes him a less time consuming champ to pick up and master. You may get destroyed when picking Wukong into Swain.
Additionally, Wukong has a good amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Swain. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when fighting champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Wukong vs Swain matchups, Swain is the better champion with a lower win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during late stage team fights.
Wukong is a bad counter to Swain. Make sure you focus your gameplay on increasing your gold and cs and taking out objectives. If you are able to do that, you should do very well as Wukong against Swain.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Wukong in order to counter Swain during both the lane 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 listen to the build and stats presented here, you will increase your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Wukong most often picks up a similar amount of CS as Swain. Champions who on average don't get much CS usualy don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are able to scale well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually have to have many items to be effective. In either situation, try to surpass the values reported here to do well.
The best items to prioritize in your Wukong versus Swain build include Trinity Force, Maw of Malmortius, and Sundered Sky. When Wukong bought at least these three pieces in his build, he performed a lot better versus Swain than with many other common item sets. In fact, Wukong had an average win rate of 47.6% battling Swain with this build.
To have the greatest likelihood of annihilating Swain as Wukong, you should take the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Last Stand, Cosmic Insight, and Magical Footwear runes from the Precision and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the rune combinations players picked for Wukong vs Swain counter picks, this set of runes yielded the best win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 47.6% winrate overall.
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