Swain vs Sylas
How to Beat Sylas as Swain
based on 5,471 Swain vs Sylas matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Swain vs Sylas Matchup Summary
Best Swain vs Sylas Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Sylas as Swain
Tips for Playing as Swain against Sylas
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 Sylas
Try to fight Sylas when he isn't able to take your ultimate.
Sylas's healthbar can be deceptive, watch out for his Kingslayer!
Swain vs Sylas Counter Stats
How to Counter Sylas with Swain in LoL
The stat comparisons shown on this page emphasize several valuable Swain vs. Sylas counter statistics that may help you realize the differences between the pair. For instance, Swain’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Sylas’s KDA ratio of NaN, showing that Swain may be more central to his team's team fighting effectiveness than Sylas..
Swain normally has a slightly smaller longest killing spree than his foe does. Commonly, he receives a similar amount of damage to Sylas. This typically indicates different amounts of tankyness, yet it can also indicate that the one champion has less mobility and thus is unable to flee from additional harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Swain and Sylas
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Who is Better, Swain or Sylas?
Both League of Legends champions are great. Both champs have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Swain usually loses when playing against Sylas, with a 48.8% win rate. As a result, Swain makes a bad counter for Sylas.
While Swain does have a lower win rate compared to Sylas, when facing one another, Swain also has a much greater level of difficulty that makes him a more time consuming character to pick up and master. You still need to be cautious when picking Swain into Sylasas his relative depth means you may not be able to reach his full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Additionally, Swain has some amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Sylas. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when trying to counter champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion overall in League of Legends, in Swain vs Sylas matchups, Sylas is the better champ with a lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during late stage team fights.
Swain is a somewhat poor counter for Sylas. You will do well by focussing your strategy on increasing your CS and destroying objectives. If you are able to do that, you should do very well as Swain against Sylas.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Swain to counter Sylas during both the lane 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 pay attention to the build and suggestions displayed here, you will grow your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Swain most often accumulates a similar amount of CS as Sylas. Champions who on average don't acquire many minion kills often don't require much CS to be effective, such as supports. These kinds of champions are able to scale well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually have to have a lot of items to be effective. In either situation, try to surpass the numbers reported here to do well.
The best items to use in your Swain versus Sylas build consist of Zaz'Zak's Realmspike, Riftmaker, and Liandry's Torment. When Swain included at least these three pieces in his build, he did much better vs. Sylas than with many other typical counter builds. In fact, Swain had an average win rate of 48.8% battling Sylas with this build.
To have the highest probability of annihilating Sylas as Swain, you should use the Summon Aery, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Scorch, Conditioning, and Overgrowth runes from the Sorcery and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the runes players chose for Swain vs Sylas counterpicks, this set of runes resulted in the best win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 48.8% winrate overall.
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