Swain vs Urgot
How to Beat Urgot as Swain
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Swain vs Urgot Matchup Summary
Best Swain vs Urgot Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Urgot as Swain
Tips for Playing as Swain against Urgot
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 Urgot
If you are struck by Fear Beyond Death, do your best to avoid falling below the execution threshold (25% of your Maximum Health) until the effect times out.
Urgot relies heavily on blasting opponents with his legs, which have their own cooldowns and only detonate when he attacks in the direction they are facing. Avoid getting hit by multiple.
Urgot can deal and absorb tremendous amounts of damage with Purge, but slows himself while firing.
Swain vs Urgot Counter Stats
How to Counter Urgot with Swain in LoL
The stat comparisons shown on this page underscore several valuable Swain against Urgot matchup stats that may help you appreciate the differences and similarities between the two. Swain’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Urgot’s ratio of NaN, indicating that Swain may be more central to his team's team fighting effectiveness than Urgot. This observation is in large part caused by the differences in assists.
Swain normally has a slightly smaller longest killing spree than his foe does. Typically, he takes a similar amount of damage to Urgot. This typically indicates different amounts of tankyness, yet it can also illustrate that the champion with more health has less agility and thus is not able to flee from further harm when poked or engaged.
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Who is Better, Swain or Urgot?
Both League champions are great champions. Both have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Swain usually fairs equally well when trying to fight Urgot, with a 50.5% win rate. As a result, Swain makes an ok counter for Urgot.
While Swain does have a higher winrate than Urgot, when on opposite teams, Swain also has a greater learning curve that makes him a more difficult character to develop with. You should be careful when picking Swain into Urgotas his relative depth means you may not be able to unleash his full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Furthermore, Swain also has some amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Urgot. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when fighting champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion in League of Legends, in Swain vs Urgot matchups, Swain is the better champ with a similar win rate, similar champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during late stage team fights.
Swain is a decent counter for Urgot. You will do well by focussing your actions on increasing your CS and taking out objectives. If you can do that, you should hold your own as Swain against Urgot.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Swain in order to counter Urgot during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to gather a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you listen to the build and suggestions displayed above, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Swain on average accumulates less CS as Urgot. Champions who typically don't earn much CS often don't need much CS to be effective, such as support champions. They are able to scale well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, often require a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to exceed the numbers reported on this page to do well.
The top items to prioritize in your Swain versus Urgot build consist of Rylai's Crystal Scepter, Malignance, and Zhonya's Hourglass. When Swain bought at least these three items in his build, he performed significantly better countering Urgot than with many other commonly used counter builds. In fact, Swain had an average win rate of 50.5% when countering Urgot with this build.
To have the highest chance of crushing Urgot as Swain, Swain players should use the Conqueror, Presence of Mind, Legend: Tenacity, Last Stand, Conditioning, and Overgrowth runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the rune builds players used for Swain vs Urgot matchups, this composite of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 50.5% winrate overall.
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