Orianna vs Swain
How to Beat Swain as Orianna
based on 1,956 Orianna vs Swain matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Orianna vs Swain Matchup Summary
Best Orianna vs Swain Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Swain as Orianna
Tips for Playing as Orianna against Swain
Command: Protect can be used on yourself to return the Ball back to you quickly. Combine this with Command: Attack for a quick harassment.
Command: Dissonance is a very powerful escape tool if Orianna has the Ball. The combination of speed and leaving a slowing obstacle can be quite powerful.
Command: Shockwave can be used to drag enemies towards you or away from you if you position the Ball properly.
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.
Orianna vs Swain Counter Stats
How to Counter Swain with Orianna in LoL
The stat comparisons provided here emphasize some influential Orianna vs. Swain counter statistics that can help us interpret the distinctions between these two champions. As an example, Orianna’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Swain’s ratio of NaN, showing that Orianna may be more central to her team's team fighting capacity than Swain..
Orianna normally has a similar longest kill spree as her counter does. Typically, she receives less damage than Swain. This typically indicates different amounts of tankyness; however, it can also imply that the champ with more health has less agility and thus is not able to kite away from additional damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Orianna and Swain
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Who is Better, Orianna or Swain?
Both LoL champions are great champions. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Orianna usually loses when trying to fight Swain, with a 47.3% win rate. Thus, Orianna makes a bad counter for Swain.
While Orianna does have a lower win rate than Swain, when facing one another, Orianna also has a lower difficulty level that makes her a less difficult champ to pick up and master. You should be very concerned when picking Orianna into Swainas her relative depth means that you may not be able to reach her full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Additionally, Orianna 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 lot of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion in League of Legends, in Orianna vs Swain matchups, Swain is the better champ with a lower win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during late stage team fights.
Orianna is a bad counter to Swain. Make sure you focus your gameplay on keeping up your CS and clearing objectives. If you do that, you should do very well as Orianna against Swain.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Orianna to counter Swain during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to gather a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and stats displayed here, you will increase your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Orianna often accumulates more CS compared to Swain. Champions who on average don't take many minion kills often don't need much CS to be effective, such as supports. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually need several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the values displayed on this page to do well.
The best items to focus on in your Orianna versus Swain build include Seraph's Embrace, Shadowflame, and Stormsurge. When Orianna bought at least these three pieces in her build, she did a lot better countering Swain than with many other typical counter builds. In fact, Orianna had an average winrate of 47.3% when playing against Swain with this build.
To have the best likelihood of crushing Swain as Orianna, you should equip the Summon Aery, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Scorch, Biscuit Delivery, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Sorcery and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the rune combinations we have analyed for Orianna vs Swain face-offs, this combination of runes yielded the highest win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 47.3% win rate overall.
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