Swain vs Orianna
How to Beat Orianna as Swain
based on 1,956 Swain vs Orianna matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Swain vs Orianna Matchup Summary
Best Swain vs Orianna Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Orianna as Swain
Tips for Playing as Swain against Orianna
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 Orianna
Orianna can only affect the area the Ball is around. Use this to your advantage.
Watch out for Orianna's Ball returning to her due to leashing. This may cause some unexpected situations.
Swain vs Orianna Counter Stats
How to Counter Orianna with Swain in LoL
The stat comparisons shown on this page feature several valuable Swain versus Orianna matchup stats that can help us distinguish the differences and similarities between the pair. As an example, Swain’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Orianna’s KDA ratio of NaN, indicating that Swain may be more central to his team's team fighting capacity than Orianna..
Swain typically has a similar longest killing spree as his enemy does. Typically, he receives more damage than Orianna. This commonly reflects different amounts of tankyness; however, it can also show that the champ with increased health has less agility and thus is not able to kite away from further harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Swain and Orianna
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Who is Better, Swain or Orianna?
Both LoL champions are great champions. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Swain usually wins when taking on Orianna, with a 52.7% win rate. Therefore, Swain makes a good counter to Orianna.
While Swain does have a higher win rate compared to Orianna, when on opposite teams, Swain also has a greater learning curve that makes him a more challenging champion to learn and master. You don't need to be too worried when picking Swain into Oriannaas his relative depth means you may not be able to unleash his full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Furthermore, Swain also has some amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Orianna. This 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 in League of Legends, in Swain vs Orianna matchups, Swain is the better champion with a noticably higher win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during team fights.
Swain is an above average counter for Orianna. Make sure you focus your gameplay 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 Orianna.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Swain in order to counter Orianna during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to gather a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you mind the build and stats shown above, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Swain on average racks up less CS as Orianna. Champions who on average don't get many minion kills often don't require much CS to be effective, such as supports. These kinds of champions are able to scale properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, often have to have several high cost items to be effective. In either situation, try to exceed the values reported on this page to do well.
The best items to focus on in your Swain versus Orianna build include Rylai's Crystal Scepter, Malignance, and Zhonya's Hourglass. When Swain bought at least these three items in his build, he performed significantly better countering Orianna than with most other common builds. In fact, Swain boasted an average winrate of 52.7% when playing against Orianna with this counter build.
To have the highest chance of defeating Orianna as Swain, Swain players should equip the Electrocute, Cheap Shot, Eyeball Collection, Ultimate Hunter, Coup de Grace, and Presence of Mind runes from the Domination and Precision rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations we have analyed for Swain vs Orianna battles, this blending of runes yielded the highest win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 52.7% winrate overall.
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