Pantheon vs Swain
How to Beat Swain as Pantheon
based on 6,524 Pantheon vs Swain matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Pantheon vs Swain Matchup Summary
Best Pantheon vs Swain Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Swain as Pantheon
Tips for Playing as Pantheon against Swain
Mortal Will activates after 5 spells or basic attacks - plan your way through fights to allow you to activate it more than once.
Whittle the enemy down with Comet Spears before you jump in.
If an enemy is going to get out of range of your Aegis Assault, you can recast the spell to immediately fire the shield slam.
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.
Pantheon vs Swain Counter Stats
How to Counter Swain with Pantheon in LoL
The stat comparisons shown here show several critical Pantheon against Swain counter stats that may help us understand the differences and similarities between this pair of champions. Pantheon’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Swain’s KDA ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Pantheon may be more central to his team's team fighting capability than Swain..
Pantheon typically has a slightly larger longest kill spree than his opponent does. Typically, he receives less damage than Swain. This commonly reflects differing health capacities; however, it can also imply that the one champ has less mobility and thus is unable to kite away from additional damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Pantheon and Swain
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Who is Better, Pantheon or Swain?
Both LoL champions are great. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Pantheon usually loses when playing against Swain, with a 46.6% win rate. As a result, Pantheon makes a bad counter for Swain.
While Pantheon does have a lower win rate compared to Swain, when on opposite teams, Pantheon also has a much 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 Pantheon into Swain.
Additionally, Pantheon has some 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 lot of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion in League of Legends, in Pantheon 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 allies during late stage team fights.
Pantheon is a trash counter for Swain. You will do well by focussing your gameplay on keeping up your gold income and clearing objectives. If you do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Pantheon against Swain.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Pantheon to counter Swain during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you listen to the build and suggestions shown here, you will increase your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Pantheon on average gets a similar amount of CS compared to Swain. Champs who on average don't take much CS often don't have to have much CS to be effective, such as sup champs. These kinds of champions are able to scale properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, often require several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the numbers displayed here to do well.
The top items to use in your Pantheon versus Swain build consist of Black Cleaver, Death's Dance, and Eclipse. When Pantheon combined at least these three items in his build, he performed much better when fighting Swain than with many other typical item sets. In fact, Pantheon boasted an average win rate of 46.6% when playing against Swain with these items in his kit.
To have the highest probability of annihilating Swain as Pantheon, you should take the Press the Attack, Presence of Mind, Legend: Tenacity, Last Stand, Transcendence, and Scorch runes from the Precision and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the rune sets that we analyzed for Pantheon vs Swain fights, this combination of runes yielded the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 46.6% winrate overall.
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