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.
Keep your distance to avoid being Flung back into Singed's allies.
Singed needs to run close to your team to be effective. Try to take advantage of this by using crowd control effects on him while attacking his allies.
Be careful when chasing Singed. He's very difficult to bring down, and can leave his Poison Trail to damage you in your pursuit.
The stats provided here highlight some significant Swain against Singed counter stats that can help us understand the differences between the pair. For instance, Swain’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Singed’s KDA ratio of NaN, showing that Swain may be more central to his team's team fighting capability than Singed..
Swain normally has a similar longest killing spree as his foe does. On average, he takes a similar amount of damage to Singed. This often reflects different amounts of tankyness, yet it can also show that the champion with more HP has less agility and thus is unable to kite away from additional harm when engaged or poked.
Both League of Legends champions are great champions. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Swain usually loses when playing against Singed, with a 48.0% win rate. As a result, Swain makes a bad counter to Singed.
While Swain does have a lower win rate compared to Singed, when on opposite teams, Swain also has a much greater difficulty level that makes him a more challenging champion to pick up and master. You may get destroyed when picking Swain into Singedas his relative depth means you may not be able to unleash his full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Furthermore, Swain has some amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Singed. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when facing champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Swain vs Singed matchups, Singed 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 trash counter to Singed. Focus your actions on maximizing your gold income and destroying objectives. If you can do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Swain against Singed.
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Swain to counter Singed during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to gather a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you mind the build and stats displayed here, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Swain on average gets less CS as Singed. Champions who on average don't acquire many minion kills often don't require much CS to be effective, such as support champions. They are able to scale well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually have to have several high cost items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the numbers displayed here to do well.
The ideal items to have in your Swain versus Singed build include Rylai's Crystal Scepter, Malignance, and Riftmaker. When Swain bought at least these three pieces in his build, he performed much better vs. Singed than with most other common builds. In fact, Swain boasted an average winrate of 48.0% battling Singed with this build.
To have the best likelihood of crushing Singed 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 that we analyzed for Swain vs Singed counters, this composite of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 48.0% winrate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to beat Singed as Swain are given for all skill levels combined. If you want to scope the statistics and builds to a particular skill level, you should use the selection menu earlier in the counter matchup guide.