Swain vs Pantheon
How to Beat Pantheon as Swain
based on 6,524 Swain vs Pantheon matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Swain vs Pantheon Matchup Summary
Best Swain vs Pantheon Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Pantheon as Swain
Tips for Playing as Swain against Pantheon
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 Pantheon
Pantheon's Aegis Assault makes him invulnerable from the front. Get behind him or wait it out.
Grand Starfall gives several seconds of warning before Pantheon arrives. Use this time to get out of the way or to form a plan to deal with him.
Be careful near Pantheon if your health is low - a thrown Comet Spear executes low health enemies.
Swain vs Pantheon Counter Stats
How to Counter Pantheon with Swain in LoL
The stats shown here feature some critical Swain against Pantheon counter stats that may help you realize the differences between the pair. Swain’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Pantheon’s ratio of NaN, indicating that Swain may be more central to his team's team fighting capacity than Pantheon..
Swain normally has a slightly smaller longest killing spree than his matchup does. On average, he receives more damage than Pantheon. This commonly reflects different amounts of tankyness, yet it can also show that the one champ has less agility and thus is not able to flee from further damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Swain and Pantheon
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Who is Better, Swain or Pantheon?
Both LoL champs are great champions. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Swain usually wins when playing against Pantheon, with a 53.4% win rate. Thus, Swain makes a great counter to Pantheon.
While Swain does have a higher win rate than Pantheon, when they face off with one another, Swain also has a much greater level of difficulty that makes him a more difficult character to learn and master. You don't need to be too worried when picking Swain into Pantheonas his relative depth means you may not be able to unleash his full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Moreover, Swain also has some amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Pantheon. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when fighting champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion overall in League of Legends, in Swain vs Pantheon 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 allies during team fights.
Swain is a great counter for Pantheon. You will do well by focussing your actions on increasing your CS and clearing objectives. If you can do that, you should do very well as Swain against Pantheon.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Swain in order to counter Pantheon during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to learn a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you listen to the build and suggestions shown above, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Swain most often racks up a similar amount of CS as Pantheon. Champions who typically don't earn many minion kills usualy don't need much CS to be effective, such as supports. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually require a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the values reported on this page to do well.
The best items to focus on in your Swain versus Pantheon build include Malignance, Zhonya's Hourglass, and Riftmaker. When Swain bought at least these three items in his build, he did a lot better against Pantheon than with most other commonly used builds. In fact, Swain boasted an average winrate of 53.4% when countering Pantheon with this counter build.
To have the highest chance of annihilating Pantheon as Swain, you should use the Conqueror, Presence of Mind, Legend: Tenacity, Last Stand, Manaflow Band, and Transcendence runes from the Precision and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the rune sets players chose for Swain vs Pantheon counter picks, this order of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 53.4% win rate overall.
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