Swain vs Amumu
How to Beat Amumu as Swain
based on 3,462 Swain vs Amumu matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Swain vs Amumu Matchup Summary
Best Swain vs Amumu Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Amumu as Swain
Tips for Playing as Swain against Amumu
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 Amumu
Amumu's Despair makes purchasing primarily Health items a risky proposition.
Erratic movement, or hiding behind creep waves can make it difficult for Amumu to instigate a fight with Bandage Toss.
Avoid bunching up with other allies when Amumu has his ultimate available.
Swain vs Amumu Counter Stats
How to Counter Amumu with Swain in LoL
The stats provided here show some valuable Swain versus Amumu counter stats that can help you figure out the differences between the pair. Swain’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Amumu’s ratio of NaN, indicating that Swain may be more central to his team's team fighting effectiveness than Amumu..
Swain usually has a slightly larger longest kill spree than his counter does. Typically, he takes a similar amount of damage to Amumu. This is usually reflective of different amounts of tankyness, yet it can also indicate that the champion with higher HP has less mobility and thus is unable to flee from further damage when engaged or poked.
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Who is Better, Swain or Amumu?
Both League champions are great. Both have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Swain usually wins when playing against Amumu, with a 53.1% win rate. As a result, Swain makes a great counter to Amumu.
While Swain does have a higher winrate than Amumu, when they face off with one another, Swain also has a much greater difficulty level that makes him a more time consuming champion to learn and master. You don't need to be too worried when picking Swain into Amumuas his relative depth means that you may not be able to reach his full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Furthermore, Swain also has some amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Amumu. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when fighting 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 Amumu 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 allied champions during team fights.
Swain is a great counter to Amumu. Make sure you focus your actions on maximizing your gold income and destroying objectives. If you can do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Swain against Amumu.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Swain in order to counter Amumu during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to learn a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and suggestions shown above, you should grow your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Swain on average gets much more CS relative to Amumu. Champs who on average don't get much CS often don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. They are capable of scaling properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually have to have a lot of items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the values shown on this page to do well.
The best items to prioritize in your Swain versus Amumu build include Rylai's Crystal Scepter, Solstice Sleigh, and Liandry's Torment. When Swain combined at least these three pieces in his build, he performed a lot better when fighting Amumu than with many other typical builds. In fact, Swain boasted an average winrate of 53.1% battling Amumu with this build.
To have the best chance of beating Amumu as Swain, you should use the Conqueror, Presence of Mind, Legend: Tenacity, Last Stand, Conditioning, and Overgrowth runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the runes players used for Swain vs Amumu clashes, this order of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 53.1% winrate overall.
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