Swain vs Ahri
How to Beat Ahri as Swain
based on 4,335 Swain vs Ahri matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Swain vs Ahri Matchup Summary
Best Swain vs Ahri Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Ahri as Swain
Tips for Playing as Swain against Ahri
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 Ahri
Stay behind minions to make Charm difficult to land, this will reduce Ahri's damage potential significantly.
Ahri's survivability is dramatically reduced when her Ultimate, Spirit Rush, is down.
Swain vs Ahri Counter Stats
How to Counter Ahri with Swain in LoL
The stats shown on this page clarify several critical Swain versus Ahri counter stats that may help us figure out the differences and similarities between the pair. For instance, Swain’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Ahri’s KDA ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Swain may be more central to his team's team fighting capacity than Ahri..
Swain usually has a similar longest killing spree as his matchup does. Commonly, he receives more damage than Ahri. This often reflects different amounts of tankyness, but it can also illustrate that the champion with more health has less mobility and thus is not able to kite away from further damage when engaged or poked.
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Who is Better, Swain or Ahri?
Both League of Legends champs are great champions. Both champs have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Swain usually wins when trying to fight Ahri, with a 52.4% win rate. Therefore, Swain makes a good counter to Ahri.
While Swain does have a higher winrate compared to Ahri, when on opposite teams, Swain also has a much greater difficulty level that makes him a more complex character to pick up and master. You don't need to be too worried when picking Swain into Ahrias his relative depth means you may not be able to unleash his full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Moreover, Swain also has some amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Ahri. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when facing champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Swain vs Ahri matchups, Swain is the better champ with a noticably higher win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during teamfights.
Swain is an above average counter for Ahri. Focus your actions on maximizing your gold income and clearing objectives. If you can do that, you should do very well as Swain against Ahri.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Swain in order to counter Ahri during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to pick up a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and tips displayed here, you will grow your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Swain typically picks up less CS compared to Ahri. Champs who typically don't take many minion kills often don't require much CS to be effective, such as supports. They are capable of scaling well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically need many items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the values reported on this page to do well.
The most important items to use in your Swain versus Ahri build include Rylai's Crystal Scepter, Malignance, and Liandry's Torment. When Swain combined at least these three items in his build, he performed significantly better countering Ahri than with most other commonly used counter builds. In fact, Swain had an average winrate of 52.4% when playing against Ahri with this build.
To have the greatest likelihood of annihilating Ahri as Swain, you should use the Electrocute, Cheap Shot, Eyeball Collection, Ultimate Hunter, Coup de Grace, and Presence of Mind runes from the Domination and Precision rune sets. Of all the rune sets players picked for Swain vs Ahri counter picks, this mix of runes resulted in the highest win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 52.4% winrate overall.
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