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.
The stats shown here highlight some valuable Swain vs. Bel'Veth counter statistics that may help us interpret the differences between these two champions. As an example, Swain’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Bel'Veth’s ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Swain may be more central to his team's team fighting potential than Bel'Veth..
Swain typically has a slightly smaller longest killing spree than his foe does. Commonly, he receives a similar amount of damage to Bel'Veth. This is usually reflective of different amounts of tankyness, but it can also show that the one champ has less mobility and thus is unable to escape further harm when poked or engaged.
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 taking on Bel'Veth, with a 50.2% win rate. Thus, Swain makes an ok counter for Bel'Veth.
While Swain does have a higher win rate compared to Bel'Veth, when on opposite teams, Swain also has a lower difficulty level that makes him a less challenging character to pick up and master. You should be careful when picking Swain into Bel'Vethas his relative depth means you may not be able to unleash his full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Additionally, Swain also has some amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Bel'Veth. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, 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 Bel'Veth matchups, Swain is the better champ with a similar win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during late stage team fights.
Swain is a decent counter to Bel'Veth. Make sure you focus your strategy on maximizing your gold income and clearing objectives. If you can do that, you should do very well as Swain against Bel'Veth.
To truly master Swain to counter Bel'Veth during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to pick up a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and suggestions displayed above, you should grow your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Swain on average picks up more CS as Bel'Veth. Champs who typically don't take much CS typically don't require much CS to be effective, such as support champions. They are able to scale properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, often have to have a lot of items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the numbers shown on this page to do well.
The most important items to focus on in your Swain versus Bel'Veth build include Rylai's Crystal Scepter, Zhonya's Hourglass, and Liandry's Torment. When Swain included at least these three pieces in his build, he performed significantly better when fighting Bel'Veth than with most other typical item sets. In fact, Swain had an average win rate of 50.2% when playing against Bel'Veth with this build.
To have the highest probability of defeating Bel'Veth as Swain, you should take the Conqueror, Presence of Mind, Legend: Tenacity, Last Stand, Conditioning, and Overgrowth runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the rune builds players picked for Swain vs Bel'Veth counter picks, this combo of runes yielded the highest win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 50.2% winrate overall.
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