Swain vs Ashe
How to Beat Ashe as Swain
based on 9,666 Swain vs Ashe matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Swain vs Ashe Matchup Summary
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Guide to Countering Ashe as Swain
Tips for Playing as Swain against Ashe
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 Ashe
Ashe has very few defensive options, and she's a good target to gank.
Be wary of moving around the map alone if Ashe has not recently cast her Enchanted Crystal Arrow.
Swain vs Ashe Counter Stats
How to Counter Ashe with Swain in LoL
The stats shown on this page underscore several critical Swain against Ashe matchup stats that may help us appreciate the distinctions between these two champions. For instance, Swain’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Ashe’s ratio of NaN, highlighting that Swain may be more central to his team's team fighting effectiveness than Ashe..
Swain typically has a similar longest killing spree as his matchup does. Typically, he takes more damage than Ashe. This often reflects different amounts of tankyness, but it can also illustrate that the champion with increased health has less mobility and thus is unable to escape further harm when poked or engaged.
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Who is Better, Swain or Ashe?
Both LoL champions are great champions. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Swain usually wins when taking on Ashe, with a 53.0% win rate. Thus, Swain makes a good counter for Ashe.
While Swain does have a higher win rate compared to Ashe, when they face off with one another, Swain also has a much greater level of difficulty that makes him a more time consuming champion to learn and master. You should be be fine when picking Swain into Asheas his relative depth means you may not be able to unleash his full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Additionally, Swain has some amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Ashe. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when facing champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Swain vs Ashe 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 allies during team fights.
Swain is a good counter for Ashe. You will do well by focussing your strategy on maximizing your gold and cs and clearing objectives. If you are able to do that, you should hold your own as Swain against Ashe.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Swain to counter Ashe during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to gather a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and tips displayed above, you will increase your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Swain usually gets a similar amount of CS as Ashe. Champions who typically don't take much CS usualy don't have to have much CS to be effective, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually need a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to exceed the numbers reported here to do well.
The most important items to use in your Swain versus Ashe build consist of Malignance, Zaz'Zak's Realmspike, and Riftmaker. When Swain combined at least these three items in his build, he performed significantly better vs Ashe than with most other common counter builds. In fact, Swain had an average winrate of 53.0% when playing against Ashe with this build.
To have the best likelihood of crushing Ashe as Swain, Swain players should take the Summon Aery, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Scorch, Presence of Mind, and Last Stand runes from the Sorcery and Precision rune sets. Of all the runes players used for Swain vs Ashe counterpicks, this sequence of runes yielded the highest win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 53.0% winrate overall.
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