Swain vs Milio
How to Beat Milio as Swain
based on 3,113 Swain vs Milio matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Swain vs Milio Matchup Summary
Best Swain vs Milio Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Milio as Swain
Tips for Playing as Swain against Milio
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 Milio
Catching Milio with no allies around severely inhibits his mobility. Try to find him alone.
Champions with crowd control that can be applied quickly excel against Milio.
Milio's movement abilities forecast their destination. Try to use this to your advantage.
Swain vs Milio Counter Stats
How to Counter Milio with Swain in LoL
The stat comparisons shown here clarify some influential Swain versus Milio matchup stats that may help us grasp the differences between these two champions. As an example, Swain’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Milio’s KDA ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Swain may be more central to his team's team fighting capability than Milio. This observation is largely fueled by the difference in kills.
Swain often has a much larger longest kill spree than his opponent does. Typically, he receives more damage than Milio. This commonly reflects differing health capacities, yet it can also hint that the champ with higher HP has less agility and thus is unable to kite away from additional damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Swain and Milio
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Who is Better, Swain or Milio?
Both League of Legends champs are great champions. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Swain usually loses when playing against Milio, with a 48.3% win rate. As a result, Swain makes a poor counter for Milio.
While Swain does have a lower win rate compared to Milio, when they face off with one another, Swain also has a much greater difficulty level that makes him a more complex champion to pick up and master. You still need to be cautious when picking Swain into Milioas 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 CC and other utility, a similar amount to Milio. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when trying to counter champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion overall in League of Legends, in Swain vs Milio matchups, Milio is the better champion with a lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during teamfights.
Swain is a somewhat poor counter for Milio. Focus your actions on maximizing your CS and clearing objectives. If you can do that, you should hold your own as Swain against Milio.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Swain in order to counter Milio during both the early game 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 mind the build and suggestions presented here, you should increase your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Swain usually racks up much more CS as Milio. Champs who on average don't get much CS usualy don't have to have much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. They are able to scale well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically have to have many items to be effective. In either situation, try to surpass the values reported here to do well.
The ideal items to use in your Swain versus Milio build include Zhonya's Hourglass, Zaz'Zak's Realmspike, and Liandry's Torment. When Swain included at least these three pieces in his build, he performed a lot better when facing Milio than with many other typical item sets. In fact, Swain had an average win rate of 48.3% battling Milio with these items in his kit.
To have the highest likelihood of defeating Milio as Swain, Swain players should equip the Conqueror, Presence of Mind, Legend: Tenacity, Last Stand, Conditioning, and Overgrowth runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations that we analyzed for Swain vs Milio counter picks, this composite of runes yielded the highest win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 48.3% win rate overall.
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