Swain vs Malzahar
How to Beat Malzahar as Swain
based on 4,800 Swain vs Malzahar matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Swain vs Malzahar Matchup Summary
Best Swain vs Malzahar Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Malzahar as Swain
Tips for Playing as Swain against Malzahar
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 Malzahar
Malzahar is especially dangerous when he has built up his Void Swarm.
When Malzahar hits a spell on enemies affected by Malefic Visions, the Visions are refreshed.
Avoid minion waves that have been affected by Malefic Visions. You never know when they may die and pass the Visions onto you.
Swain vs Malzahar Counter Stats
How to Counter Malzahar with Swain in LoL
The stats provided here emphasize some vital Swain against Malzahar counter stats that may help us explain the differences between this set of champs. For instance, Swain’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Malzahar’s KDA ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Swain may be more central to his team's team fighting effectiveness than Malzahar..
Swain typically has a similar longest kill spree as his matchup does. On average, he takes more damage than Malzahar. This typically indicates different amounts of tankyness, yet it can also indicate that the champion with more HP has less agility and thus is not able to escape additional damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Swain and Malzahar
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Who is Better, Swain or Malzahar?
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 facing off against Malzahar, with a 50.6% win rate. Thus, Swain makes an ok counter for Malzahar.
While Swain does have a higher win rate than Malzahar, when on opposite teams, Swain also has a greater learning curve that makes him a more time consuming character to pick up and master. You still need to be cautious when picking Swain into Malzaharas his relative depth means you may not be able to reach his full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Additionally, Swain has some amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Malzahar. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when facing champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Swain vs Malzahar matchups, Swain is the better champ with a similar win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during late stage team fights.
Swain is a decent counter to Malzahar. Focus your actions on keeping up your gold income and taking out objectives. If you do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Swain against Malzahar.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Swain in order to counter Malzahar during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you mind the build and stats presented above, you will grow your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Swain most often picks up less CS as Malzahar. Champions who typically don't earn much CS often don't require much CS to be effective, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually require several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to surpass the numbers shown on this page to do well.
The most crucial items to use in your Swain versus Malzahar build include Malignance, Cryptbloom, and Liandry's Torment. When Swain used at least these three pieces in his build, he did significantly better when fighting Malzahar than with most other commonly used item sets. In fact, Swain had an average win rate of 50.6% when countering Malzahar with this counter build.
To have the greatest likelihood of defeating Malzahar as Swain, you should equip the Summon Aery, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Scorch, Conditioning, and Overgrowth runes from the Sorcery and Resolve rune sets. Of all the rune builds that we analyzed for Swain vs Malzahar fights, this order of runes yielded the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 50.6% win rate overall.
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