Skarner vs Swain
How to Beat Swain as Skarner
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Skarner vs Swain Matchup Summary
Best Skarner vs Swain Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Swain as Skarner
Tips for Playing as Skarner against Swain
Impale is extremely powerful when you use it to position an enemy so your allies can attack them.
Basic attacks reduce the cooldown of Crystal Slash. Use them as often as possible for maximum damage.
Capturing Crystal Spires before attempting neutral objectives or team fights around them improves Skarner's performance in said fights dramatically.
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.
Skarner vs Swain Counter Stats
How to Counter Swain with Skarner in LoL
The stat comparisons shown on this page feature several strategic Skarner vs. Swain counter statistics that may help you understand the distinctions between this pair of champions. Skarner’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Swain’s KDA ratio of NaN, showing that Skarner may be more central to his team's team fighting potential than Swain..
Skarner typically has a similar longest killing spree as his opponent does. Commonly, he receives a similar amount of damage to Swain. This often reflects different amounts of tankyness, yet it can also show that the champ with higher HP has less agility and thus is unable to escape additional harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Skarner and Swain
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Who is Better, Skarner or Swain?
Both LoL champions are great. Both champs have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Skarner usually loses when trying to fight Swain, with a 45.7% win rate. Therefore, Skarner makes a bad counter for Swain.
While Skarner does have a much lower winrate compared to Swain, when on opposite teams, Skarner also has a lower learning curve that makes him a less difficult champ to learn. You may get destroyed when picking Skarner into Swain.
Moreover, Skarner also has a good 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 a single best champion in League of Legends, in Skarner 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 team members during late stage team fights.
Skarner is a trash counter for Swain. You will do well by focussing your actions on keeping up your gold and cs and taking out objectives. If you do that, you should do very well as Skarner against Swain.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Skarner to counter Swain during both the early game 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 should grow your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Skarner often gets less CS as Swain. Champions who on average don't get much CS often don't have to have much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically require a lot of items to be effective. In either situation, try to surpass the values shown here to do well.
The best items to focus on in your Skarner versus Swain build include Trinity Force, Dead Man's Plate, and Jak'Sho, The Protean. When Skarner bought at least these three pieces in his build, he did significantly better vs. Swain than with many other commonly used counter builds. In fact, Skarner had an average winrate of 45.7% battling Swain with this counter build.
To have the highest probability of defeating Swain as Skarner, you should use the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Last Stand, Transcendence, and Waterwalking runes from the Precision and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the rune builds players chose for Skarner vs Swain counter picks, this mix of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 45.7% winrate overall.
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