Swain vs Gragas
How to Beat Gragas as Swain
based on 2,429 Swain vs Gragas matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Swain vs Gragas Matchup Summary
Best Swain vs Gragas Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Gragas as Swain
Tips for Playing as Swain against Gragas
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 Gragas
Body Slam is on a very low cooldown, making it difficult to pursue Gragas. Don't overextend yourself chasing him.
Gragas can knock everybody away with his ultimate. Be careful that you don't get knocked into him or, worse, an enemy tower.
Swain vs Gragas Counter Stats
How to Counter Gragas with Swain in LoL
The stats provided here highlight several vital Swain vs. Gragas counter stats that can help you explain the differences and similarities between the pair. As an example, Swain’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Gragas’s KDA ratio of NaN, indicating that Swain may be more central to his team's team fighting capacity than Gragas..
Swain typically has a similar longest killing spree as his opponent does. Typically, he receives a similar amount of damage to Gragas. This is usually reflective of differing health capacities, yet it can also show that the champion with increased health has less mobility and thus is unable to flee from additional damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Swain and Gragas
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Who is Better, Swain or Gragas?
Both LoL champs are great. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Swain usually wins when facing off against Gragas, with a 52.5% win rate. Thus, Swain makes a good counter to Gragas.
While Swain does have a higher winrate than Gragas, when they face off with one another, Swain also has a much greater difficulty level that makes him a more complex champ to learn. You should be be fine when picking Swain into Gragasas his relative depth means that you may not be able to reach his full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Moreover, Swain also has some amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Gragas. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when trying to counter champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion overall in League of Legends, in Swain vs Gragas 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 team members during team fights.
Swain is an above average counter to Gragas. You will do well by focussing your strategy on keeping up your gold income and clearing objectives. If you do that, you should do very well as Swain against Gragas.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Swain to counter Gragas during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to learn a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you listen to the build and tips displayed here, you should increase your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Swain usually gets a similar amount of CS relative to Gragas. Champions who on average don't acquire many minion kills typically don't have to have much CS to be valuable teammates, such as sup champs. 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 a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the values reported on this page to do well.
The most crucial items to prioritize in your Swain versus Gragas build include Rylai's Crystal Scepter, Malignance, and Liandry's Torment. When Swain combined at least these three pieces in his build, he did a lot better when fighting Gragas than with most other typical counter builds. In fact, Swain had an average winrate of 52.5% battling Gragas with these items in his kit.
To have the greatest probability of annihilating Gragas as Swain, Swain players should equip the Electrocute, Cheap Shot, Eyeball Collection, Ultimate Hunter, Coup de Grace, and Presence of Mind runes from the Domination and Precision rune sets. Out of all the rune sets players picked for Swain vs Gragas LoL games, this mixture of runes yielded the best win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 52.5% win rate overall.
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