Swain vs Dr. Mundo
How to Beat Dr. Mundo as Swain
based on 3,066 Swain vs Dr. Mundo matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Swain vs Dr. Mundo Matchup Summary
Best Swain vs Dr. Mundo Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Dr. Mundo as Swain
Tips for Playing as Swain against Dr. Mundo
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 Dr. Mundo
Try to coordinate high-damage abilities with your allies right after Dr. Mundo uses his ultimate, but if you're unable to kill him quickly with burst he will heal through the damage.
Try casting Ignite when Dr. Mundo uses Sadism to negate a large portion of its healing.
Swain vs Dr. Mundo Counter Stats
How to Counter Dr. Mundo with Swain in LoL
The stats shown on this page clarify some critical Swain versus Dr. Mundo counter statistics that can help you distinguish the differences between the pair. As an example, Swain’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Dr. Mundo’s KDA ratio of NaN, highlighting that Swain may be more central to his team's team fighting capacity than Dr. Mundo. This observation is largely fueled by the differences in assists.
Swain typically has a similar longest killing spree as his opponent does. Commonly, he takes less damage than Dr. Mundo. This often reflects different amounts of tankyness; however, it can also illustrate that the champ with more health has less agility and thus is not able to kite away from further damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Swain and Dr. Mundo
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Who is Better, Swain or Dr. Mundo?
Both League champions are great. Both have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Swain usually wins when playing against Dr. Mundo, with a 51.7% win rate. Therefore, Swain makes a good counter to Dr. Mundo.
While Swain does have a higher win rate compared to Dr. Mundo, when on opposite teams, Swain also has a much greater learning curve that makes him a more challenging champ to pick up and master. You should be careful when picking Swain into Dr. Mundoas his relative depth means you may not be able to reach his full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Moreover, Swain also has some amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Dr. Mundo. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, 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 Dr. Mundo matchups, Swain is the better champ with a higher win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during teamfights.
Swain is a decent counter to Dr. Mundo. You will do well by focussing your play on keeping up your CS and destroying objectives. If you are able to do that, you should do very well as Swain against Dr. Mundo.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Swain to counter Dr. Mundo during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to learn a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and tips displayed above, you should increase your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Swain typically racks up less CS compared to Dr. Mundo. Champions who typically don't take much CS usualy don't have to have much CS to be effective, such as support champions. They are capable of scaling properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually require many items to be effective. In either situation, try to surpass the values shown here to do well.
The most crucial items to focus on in your Swain versus Dr. Mundo build consist of Rylai's Crystal Scepter, Zaz'Zak's Realmspike, and Liandry's Torment. When Swain included at least these three items in his build, he performed significantly better vs Dr. Mundo than with many other commonly used item sets. In fact, Swain boasted an average win rate of 51.7% when countering Dr. Mundo with this counter build.
To have the highest chance of crushing Dr. Mundo as Swain, you should equip the Conqueror, Presence of Mind, Legend: Tenacity, Last Stand, Conditioning, and Overgrowth runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Of all the rune combinations we have analyed for Swain vs Dr. Mundo counters, this order of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 51.7% win rate overall.
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