Swain vs Fiora
How to Beat Fiora as Swain
based on 3,454 Swain vs Fiora matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Swain vs Fiora Matchup Summary
Best Swain vs Fiora Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Fiora as Swain
Tips for Playing as Swain against Fiora
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 Fiora
Be careful when casting immobilizing disables on Fiora. If her Riposte is available, she can turn their power against you.
Duelist's Dance shows you where Fiora will try to attack from, so be ready to punish her when she tries.
Swain vs Fiora Counter Stats
How to Counter Fiora with Swain in LoL
The stat comparisons shown on this page feature some strategic Swain versus Fiora counter stats that may help us appreciate the differences between the pair. Swain’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Fiora’s KDA ratio of NaN, indicating that Swain may be more central to his team's team fighting capacity than Fiora. This observation is largely fueled by the differences in assists.
Swain usually has a similar longest killing spree as his foe does. Commonly, he takes a similar amount of damage to Fiora. This typically indicates differing health capacities; however, it can also illustrate that the one champ has less agility and thus is unable to escape further harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Swain and Fiora
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Who is Better, Swain or Fiora?
Both League champs are great champions. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Swain usually fairs equally well when facing off against Fiora, with a 49.1% win rate. As a result, Swain makes an ok counter to Fiora.
While Swain does have a lower winrate compared to Fiora, when on opposite teams, Swain also has a much greater difficulty level that makes him a more difficult champion to pick up and master. You still need to be cautious when picking Swain into Fioraas 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 utility and CC, a similar amount to Fiora. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when facing champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion in League of Legends, in Swain vs Fiora matchups, Fiora is the better champ with a similar win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during teamfights.
Swain is a somewhat poor counter for Fiora. You will do well by focussing your actions on maximizing your CS and destroying objectives. If you are able to do that, you should hold your own as Swain against Fiora.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Swain in order to counter Fiora during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and stats displayed here, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Swain typically picks up less CS as Fiora. Champs who typically don't get much CS often 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 large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically have to have several high cost items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the numbers shown on this page to do well.
The most crucial items to have in your Swain versus Fiora build include Rylai's Crystal Scepter, Riftmaker, and Liandry's Torment. When Swain combined at least these three pieces in his build, he did significantly better versus Fiora than with most other typical builds. In fact, Swain had an average winrate of 49.1% when playing against Fiora with these items in his kit.
To have the greatest likelihood of beating Fiora as Swain, you should equip the Electrocute, Cheap Shot, Eyeball Collection, Ultimate Hunter, Cosmic Insight, and Triple Tonic runes from the Domination and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the runes we have analyed for Swain vs Fiora LoL games, this combination of runes yielded the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 49.1% win rate overall.
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