Swain vs Trundle
How to Beat Trundle as Swain
based on 9,177 Swain vs Trundle matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Swain vs Trundle Matchup Summary
Best Swain vs Trundle Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Trundle as Swain
Tips for Playing as Swain against Trundle
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 Trundle
Trundle is very powerful at location-based combat. Try to draw him off of his Frozen Domain.
Make sure to get out of his Pillar of Ice as quickly as possible, as it significantly slows you down.
Swain vs Trundle Counter Stats
How to Counter Trundle with Swain in LoL
The stat comparisons shown on this page highlight some valuable Swain vs. Trundle matchup statistics that may help us figure out the distinctions between these two champs. As an example, Swain’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Trundle’s KDA ratio of NaN, showing that Swain may be more central to his team's team fighting potential than Trundle. This observation is largely a result of the differences in assists.
Swain normally has a similar longest killing spree as his opponent does. Typically, he takes less damage than Trundle. This often reflects differing health capacities, yet it can also imply that the one champion has less agility and thus is not able to escape additional harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Swain and Trundle
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Who is Better, Swain or Trundle?
Both League champs are great. Both have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Swain usually loses when taking on Trundle, with a 47.8% win rate. As a result, Swain makes a poor counter to Trundle.
While Swain does have a lower winrate compared to Trundle, when facing one another, Swain also has a much greater difficulty level that makes him a more difficult champ to pick up and master. You should be very concerned when picking Swain into Trundleas his relative depth means that 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 Trundle. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when fighting champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Swain vs Trundle matchups, Trundle is the better champion with a lower 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 terribly counter to Trundle. You will do well by focussing your gameplay on maximizing your gold income and clearing objectives. If you can do that, you should do very well as Swain against Trundle.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Swain in order to counter Trundle during both the early game 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 presented here, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Swain on average picks up a similar amount of CS compared to Trundle. Champs who typically don't earn many minion kills often don't have to have much CS to be effective, such as supports. They are capable of scaling well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually need many items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the values displayed here to do well.
The best items to focus on in your Swain versus Trundle build include Rylai's Crystal Scepter, Malignance, and Riftmaker. When Swain bought at least these three items in his build, he performed much better countering Trundle than with many other common item sets. In fact, Swain boasted an average winrate of 47.8% when countering Trundle with this build.
To have the highest likelihood of annihilating Trundle as Swain, you should equip the Conqueror, Presence of Mind, Legend: Tenacity, Last Stand, Manaflow Band, and Transcendence runes from the Precision and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the rune combinations that we analyzed for Swain vs Trundle counterpicks, this combination of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 47.8% winrate overall.
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