Swain vs Leona
How to Beat Leona as Swain
based on 5,459 Swain vs Leona matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Swain vs Leona Matchup Summary
Best Swain vs Leona Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Leona as Swain
Tips for Playing as Swain against Leona
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 Leona
When Leona activates Eclipse, you have three seconds to get away from her before she deals damage.
Only foes in the center of Solar Flare get stunned, so you can often avoid this if you're quick.
Swain vs Leona Counter Stats
How to Counter Leona with Swain in LoL
The stats shown on this page clarify some critical Swain against Leona counter statistics that can help you explain the differences and similarities between this set of champions. As an example, Swain’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Leona’s KDA ratio of NaN, highlighting that Swain may be more central to his team's team fighting potential than Leona. This observation is largely fueled by the difference in kills.
Swain typically has a much larger longest kill spree than his foe does. Typically, he takes more damage than Leona. This often reflects different amounts of tankyness, but it can also show that the one champ has less mobility and thus is unable to flee from further harm when poked or engaged.
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Who is Better, Swain or Leona?
Both LoL champions are great. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Swain usually wins when trying to fight Leona, with a 52.0% win rate. As a result, Swain makes a good counter for Leona.
While Swain does have a higher winrate compared to Leona, when facing one another, Swain also has a much greater level of difficulty that makes him a more challenging champion to learn and master. You still need to be cautious when picking Swain into Leonaas his relative depth means you may not be able to unleash his full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Moreover, Swain also has some amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Leona. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when trying to counter champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Swain vs Leona matchups, Swain is the better champion with a higher win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during teamfights.
Swain is a decent counter to Leona. Make sure you focus your actions on increasing your CS and destroying objectives. If you are able to do that, you should do very well as Swain against Leona.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Swain in order to counter Leona 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 mind the build and suggestions presented above, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Swain on average gets much more CS relative to Leona. Champions who typically don't earn many minion kills usualy don't have to have much CS to be effective, such as sup champs. They are capable of scaling properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically require several high cost items to be effective. In either situation, try to exceed the numbers reported on this page to do well.
The most crucial items to have in your Swain versus Leona build include Rylai's Crystal Scepter, Malignance, and Riftmaker. When Swain bought at least these three items in his build, he did much better against Leona than with many other commonly used counter builds. In fact, Swain boasted an average win rate of 52.0% battling Leona with this build.
To have the best probability of annihilating Leona as Swain, Swain players should take the Summon Aery, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Scorch, Conditioning, and Overgrowth runes from the Sorcery and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations players used for Swain vs Leona counter picks, this set of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 52.0% winrate overall.
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