Swain vs Nidalee
How to Beat Nidalee as Swain
based on 973 Swain vs Nidalee matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Swain vs Nidalee Matchup Summary
Best Swain vs Nidalee Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Nidalee as Swain
Tips for Playing as Swain against Nidalee
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 Nidalee
Nidalee's Javelin Toss deals more damage the farther she is. If she is far away, it's imperative to dodge it.
Nidalee's Takedown deals extreme damage to Hunted targets, but she has to get close to use it. Save your crowd control or defensive abilities for when she goes in for the kill.
Nidalee's Hunt debuff is only applied with Javelin Toss and Bushwhack. Avoiding being hit by these abilities will impair her ability to deal follow-up damage.
Swain vs Nidalee Counter Stats
How to Counter Nidalee with Swain in LoL
The stats shown here underscore several critical Swain vs. Nidalee matchup stats that can help you realize the differences and similarities between the pair. As an example, Swain’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Nidalee’s ratio of NaN, indicating that Swain may be more central to his team's team fighting capacity than Nidalee..
Swain usually has a slightly smaller longest kill spree than his foe does. Commonly, he takes a similar amount of damage to Nidalee. This commonly reflects different amounts of tankyness, yet it can also indicate that the champion with more HP has less agility and thus is not able to kite away from further harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Swain and Nidalee
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Who is Better, Swain or Nidalee?
Both LoL champs are great champions. Both champs have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Swain usually wins when playing against Nidalee, with a 58.0% win rate. Thus, Swain makes a fantastic counter to Nidalee.
While Swain does have a much higher win rate than Nidalee, when on opposite teams, Swain also has a greater difficulty level that makes him a more time consuming character to learn and master. You should be be fine when picking Swain into Nidaleeas his relative depth means you may not be able to reach his full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Moreover, Swain has some amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Nidalee. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when trying to counter 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 Nidalee matchups, Swain is the better champion with a noticably higher win rate, similar champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during late stage team fights.
Swain is a great counter for Nidalee. You will do well by focussing your actions on keeping up your gold and cs and destroying objectives. If you can do that, you should do very well as Swain against Nidalee.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Swain to counter Nidalee during both the early game 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 listen to the build and tips displayed here, you will grow your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Swain usually gets more CS relative to Nidalee. Champs who typically don't acquire much CS typically don't have to have much CS to be valuable teammates, such as supports. They are capable of scaling properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically have to have many items to be effective. In either case, try to surpass the numbers reported on this page to do well.
The ideal items to have in your Swain versus Nidalee build include Rylai's Crystal Scepter, Malignance, and Liandry's Torment. When Swain incorporated at least these three pieces in his build, he did significantly better vs Nidalee than with most other typical builds. In fact, Swain had an average winrate of 58.0% when countering Nidalee with these items in his kit.
To have the best probability of defeating Nidalee as Swain, Swain players should use the Conqueror, Presence of Mind, Legend: Tenacity, Last Stand, Conditioning, and Overgrowth runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Of all the runes we have analyed for Swain vs Nidalee counter picks, this mixture of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 58.0% win rate overall.
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