Swain vs Taric
How to Beat Taric as Swain
based on 1,412 Swain vs Taric matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Swain vs Taric Matchup Summary
Best Swain vs Taric Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Taric as Swain
Tips for Playing as Swain against Taric
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 Taric
Taric reduces his spell cooldowns by basic attacking enemies with Bravado. Try to kite him in teamfights and punish him for approaching the minion wave in lane.
Taric's ultimate, Cosmic Radiance, has a long delay before its effect. Try to quickly assess whether to disengage the fight or attempt to kill his allies before it goes off.
Swain vs Taric Counter Stats
How to Counter Taric with Swain in LoL
The stats provided here show some valuable Swain against Taric matchup stats that can help you grasp the differences between this set of champions. Swain’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Taric’s KDA ratio of NaN, highlighting that Swain may be more central to his team's team fighting capacity than Taric. This observation is largely caused by the difference in kills.
Swain normally has a much larger longest kill spree than his counter does. Typically, he takes more damage than Taric. This often reflects differing health capacities, but it can also hint that the champion with more HP has less mobility and thus is unable to flee from additional harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Swain and Taric
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Who is Better, Swain or Taric?
Both League champions are great champions. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Swain usually wins when taking on Taric, with a 51.7% win rate. Therefore, Swain makes a good counter to Taric.
While Swain does have a higher winrate than Taric, when they face off with one another, Swain also has a much greater difficulty level that makes him a more difficult champ to learn and master. You should be careful when picking Swain into Taricas his relative depth means that you may not be able to unleash his full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Additionally, Swain also has some amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Taric. This often 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 in League of Legends, in Swain vs Taric matchups, Swain is the better champion with a higher win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during late stage team fights.
Swain is a decent counter to Taric. Make sure you focus your play on increasing your CS and taking out objectives. If you can do that, you should hold your own as Swain against Taric.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Swain to counter Taric during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to pick up a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you mind the build and stats presented above, you will grow your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Swain usually accumulates more CS as Taric. Champs who on average don't take many minion kills often don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are able to scale properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically require a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the numbers reported here to do well.
The most important items to use in your Swain versus Taric build consist of Rylai's Crystal Scepter, Zhonya's Hourglass, and Liandry's Torment. When Swain bought at least these three items in his build, he performed a lot better when facing Taric than with many other common counter builds. In fact, Swain had an average win rate of 51.7% when countering Taric with this build.
To have the highest chance of vanquishing Taric as Swain, Swain players should equip the Conqueror, Presence of Mind, Legend: Tenacity, Last Stand, Conditioning, and Overgrowth runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Of all the rune builds players chose for Swain vs Taric counter picks, this blending of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 51.7% win rate overall.
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