Swain vs Bard
How to Beat Bard as Swain
based on 3,889 Swain vs Bard matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Swain vs Bard Matchup Summary
Best Swain vs Bard Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Bard as Swain
Tips for Playing as Swain against Bard
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 Bard
You can crush Bard's healing shrines just by walking over them. Don't let his allies take them without a fight.
Bard's ultimate, Tempered Fate, affects allies, enemies, monsters, and turrets alike. Sometimes it can be to your advantage to jump into it!
Bard's opponents can also travel through his Magical Journey doorways. You can follow him, if you think it's safe.
Swain vs Bard Counter Stats
How to Counter Bard with Swain in LoL
The stats shown on this page highlight some significant Swain vs. Bard matchup statistics that may help you grasp the differences between the pair. As an example, Swain’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Bard’s ratio of NaN, indicating that Swain may be more central to his team's team fighting capability than Bard..
Swain usually has a slightly larger longest kill spree than his counter does. Typically, he receives more damage than Bard. This often reflects different amounts of tankyness, yet it can also show that the one champ has less mobility and thus is unable to kite away from additional harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Swain and Bard
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Who is Better, Swain or Bard?
Both League of Legends champions are great. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Swain usually fairs equally well when trying to fight Bard, with a 49.4% win rate. As a result, Swain makes an ok counter to Bard.
While Swain does have a lower win rate than Bard, when on opposite teams, Swain also has a lower difficulty level that makes him a less complex champ to learn. You still need to be cautious when picking Swain into Bardas his relative depth means that you may not be able to unleash his full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Additionally, Swain also has some amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Bard. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when trying to counter champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion in League of Legends, in Swain vs Bard matchups, Bard is the better champion with a similar win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during team fights.
Swain is a somewhat poor counter for Bard. Focus your play on maximizing your gold and cs and clearing objectives. If you are able to do that, you should do very well as Swain against Bard.
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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 Bard during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to learn a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you listen to the build and stats presented here, you should increase your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Swain on average picks up much more CS relative to Bard. Champions who typically don't get many minion kills usualy don't have to have much CS to be valuable teammates, such as supports. They are able to scale properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically require several high cost items to be effective. In either situation, try to surpass the numbers reported here to do well.
The most crucial items to have in your Swain versus Bard build include Rylai's Crystal Scepter, Malignance, and Zaz'Zak's Realmspike. When Swain incorporated at least these three pieces in his build, he did a lot better vs Bard than with most other typical item sets. In fact, Swain boasted an average win rate of 49.4% when countering Bard with this build.
To have the greatest probability of vanquishing Bard as Swain, you should use the Electrocute, Cheap Shot, Eyeball Collection, Ultimate Hunter, Cosmic Insight, and Triple Tonic runes from the Domination and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the rune sets players picked for Swain vs Bard counterpicks, this mix of runes yielded the best win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 49.4% win rate overall.
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