Swain vs Aatrox
How to Beat Aatrox as Swain
based on 6,835 Swain vs Aatrox matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Swain vs Aatrox Matchup Summary
Best Swain vs Aatrox Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Aatrox as Swain
Tips for Playing as Swain against Aatrox
While laning, try to use Death's Hand's piercing damage to damage opponents from a safe distance.
Vision of Empire is quite difficult to land on its own, look for skirmishes around the map where enemies may be distracted or crowd controlled so you can land it more easily.
If you're having trouble rooting an enemy with Nevermove, try throwing it at opponents when they are near their minions so the explosion surprises them.
Demonic Ascension may make Swain very hard to kill but he's pretty easy to get away from. Try building items that can slow opponents to keep them in range if their mobility is overwhelming.
Advice to Win Against Aatrox
Aatrox's Infernal Chains are easier to exit when running towards the sides or at Aatrox.
Aatrox's attacks are very telegraphed, so use the time to dodge the hit zones.
Keep your distance when Aatrox uses his Ultimate to prevent him from reviving.
Swain vs Aatrox Counter Stats
How to Counter Aatrox with Swain in LoL
The stat comparisons provided here highlight several critical Swain against Aatrox counter stats that may help us understand the differences between the pair. As an example, Swain’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Aatrox’s KDA ratio of NaN, highlighting that Swain may be more central to his team's team fighting effectiveness than Aatrox. This observation is in large part fueled by the differences in assists.
Swain typically has a similar longest kill spree as his enemy does. On average, he takes less damage than Aatrox. This commonly reflects differing health capacities; however, it can also hint that the champ with more health has less mobility and thus is not able to escape further harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Swain and Aatrox
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Who is Better, Swain or Aatrox?
Both League of Legends champs are great. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Swain usually fairs equally well when facing off against Aatrox, with a 49.4% win rate. As a result, Swain makes an ok counter to Aatrox.
While Swain does have a lower win rate compared to Aatrox, when facing one another, Swain also has a much greater learning curve that makes him a more complex champion to learn. You still need to be cautious when picking Swain into Aatroxas his relative depth means you may not be able to unleash his full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Furthermore, Swain has some amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Aatrox. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when fighting champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion overall in League of Legends, in Swain vs Aatrox matchups, Aatrox is the better champ with a similar win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during teamfights.
Swain is a somewhat poor counter for Aatrox. Focus your actions on keeping up your gold income and clearing objectives. If you can do that, you should do very well as Swain against Aatrox.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Swain to counter Aatrox during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to learn a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you mind the build and stats displayed above, you will increase your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Swain most often picks up less CS compared to Aatrox. Champs who on average don't take many minion kills typically don't require much CS to be effective, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are able to scale well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically need a lot of items to be effective. In either situation, try to exceed the numbers shown here to do well.
The best items to focus on in your Swain versus Aatrox build include Rylai's Crystal Scepter, Malignance, and Riftmaker. When Swain incorporated at least these three items in his build, he did significantly better countering Aatrox than with most other commonly used counter builds. In fact, Swain boasted an average winrate of 49.4% when playing against Aatrox with this counter build.
To have the greatest likelihood of vanquishing Aatrox as Swain, Swain players should use the Conqueror, Presence of Mind, Legend: Tenacity, Last Stand, Manaflow Band, and Transcendence runes from the Precision and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the rune combinations we have analyed for Swain vs Aatrox counters, this set of runes yielded the highest win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 49.4% win rate overall.
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