Swain vs Qiyana
How to Beat Qiyana as Swain
based on 1,767 Swain vs Qiyana matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Swain vs Qiyana Matchup Summary
Best Swain vs Qiyana Counter Build
Items
Starter Items
Early Items
Core Swain Items
Optional Items
Summoner Spells
Skill Order
Runes
Guide to Countering Qiyana as Swain
Tips for Playing as Swain against Qiyana
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.
Swain vs Qiyana Counter Stats
How to Counter Qiyana with Swain in LoL
The stats shown here emphasize several strategic Swain versus Qiyana counter statistics that can help us grasp the distinctions between the two. Swain’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Qiyana’s KDA ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Swain may be more central to his team's team fighting capability than Qiyana. This observation is in large part fueled by the differences in assists.
Swain typically has a slightly smaller longest kill spree than his matchup does. Typically, he takes more damage than Qiyana. This often reflects different amounts of tankyness, yet it can also illustrate that the one champion has less mobility and thus is unable to flee from further harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Swain and Qiyana
Damage Types Compared
Champion Playstyles Compared
Who is Better, Swain or Qiyana?
Both League of Legends champions are great. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Swain usually wins when facing off against Qiyana, with a 56.5% win rate. As a result, Swain makes a fantastic counter to Qiyana.
While Swain does have a much higher win rate compared to Qiyana, when on opposite teams, Swain also has a greater level of difficulty that makes him a more time consuming champ to learn. You don't need to be too worried when picking Swain into Qiyanaas 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 Qiyana. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when fighting champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion overall in League of Legends, in Swain vs Qiyana 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 allied champions during teamfights.
Swain is a great counter for Qiyana. Focus your actions on maximizing your gold and cs and clearing objectives. If you are able to do that, you should hold your own as Swain against Qiyana.
Other Champion Matchups Against Swain
Additional Information for Swain Players
How We Calculated Our Swain vs Qiyana Build and Stats
Other Useful Resources
Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Swain to counter Qiyana during both the laning 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 pay attention to the build and stats presented here, you will increase your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Swain often racks up a similar amount of CS as Qiyana. Champs who typically don't earn many minion kills often don't have to have much CS to be effective, such as sup champs. 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, often need several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the values shown here to do well.
The best items to focus on in your Swain versus Qiyana build include Rylai's Crystal Scepter, Zaz'Zak's Realmspike, and Liandry's Torment. When Swain bought at least these three items in his build, he performed much better versus Qiyana than with most other common builds. In fact, Swain had an average win rate of 56.5% when countering Qiyana with these items in his kit.
To have the highest likelihood of crushing Qiyana as Swain, Swain players should take the Conqueror, Presence of Mind, Legend: Tenacity, Last Stand, Conditioning, and Overgrowth runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Of all the rune sets that we analyzed for Swain vs Qiyana counters, this mixture of runes yielded the best win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 56.5% winrate overall.
By default, tips, statistics, and builds on how to beat Qiyana as Swain are given for all skill levels combined. If you would like to narrow the stats and builds to an individual rank, you can use the selection menu at the top of this page.