Swain vs Jax
How to Beat Jax as Swain
based on 9,883 Swain vs Jax matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Swain vs Jax Matchup Summary
Best Swain vs Jax Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Jax as Swain
Tips for Playing as Swain against Jax
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 Jax
Try to engage him in short bursts instead of going toe-to-toe with him. Preventing him from attacking consecutively drastically lowers his damage output.
Jax can dodge all incoming attacks for a very short amount of time and stuns enemies in melee range when it ends. Wait to strike him until after his dodge is finished.
Swain vs Jax Counter Stats
How to Counter Jax with Swain in LoL
The stat comparisons shown here feature some influential Swain against Jax matchup stats that may help us figure out the differences and similarities between the two. Swain’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Jax’s ratio of NaN, highlighting that Swain may be more central to his team's team fighting capacity than Jax. This observation is in large part a result of the differences in assists.
Swain normally has a similar longest kill spree as his foe does. Commonly, he takes a similar amount of damage to Jax. This commonly reflects differing health capacities, but it can also hint that the champ with increased health has less agility and thus is unable to flee from further harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Swain and Jax
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Who is Better, Swain or Jax?
Both LoL champs are great champions. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Swain usually fairs equally well when playing against Jax, with a 50.6% win rate. Thus, Swain makes an ok counter to Jax.
While Swain does have a higher winrate compared to Jax, when on opposite teams, Swain also has a much greater difficulty level that makes him a more difficult character to develop with. You should be careful when picking Swain into Jaxas his relative depth means you may not be able to reach his full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Additionally, Swain also has some amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Jax. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when trying to counter champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion in League of Legends, in Swain vs Jax matchups, Swain is the better champion with a similar win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during teamfights.
Swain is a decent counter to Jax. Focus your gameplay on maximizing your gold and cs and destroying objectives. If you do that, you should hold your own as Swain against Jax.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Swain in order to counter Jax during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you mind the build and tips shown above, you should increase your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Swain most often picks up a similar amount of CS as Jax. Champs who typically don't earn many minion kills typically don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as supports. These kinds of champions are able to scale well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, often need several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to exceed the values shown on this page to do well.
The best items to prioritize in your Swain versus Jax build consist of Rylai's Crystal Scepter, Cosmic Drive, and Liandry's Torment. When Swain incorporated at least these three pieces in his build, he did significantly better vs Jax than with many other common builds. In fact, Swain had an average winrate of 50.6% when countering Jax with this counter build.
To have the highest chance of annihilating Jax as Swain, you should equip the Summon Aery, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Scorch, Conditioning, and Overgrowth runes from the Sorcery and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations we have analyed for Swain vs Jax clashes, this sequence of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 50.6% win rate overall.
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