Swain vs Viego
How to Beat Viego as Swain
based on 5,638 Swain vs Viego matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Swain vs Viego Matchup Summary
Best Swain vs Viego Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Viego as Swain
Tips for Playing as Swain against Viego
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.
Swain vs Viego Counter Stats
How to Counter Viego with Swain in LoL
The stats provided here emphasize several important Swain versus Viego matchup stats that can help you explain the distinctions between the two. As an example, Swain’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Viego’s KDA ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Swain may be more central to his team's team fighting capability than Viego..
Swain typically has a slightly smaller longest killing spree than his foe does. Commonly, he takes less damage than Viego. This commonly reflects different amounts of tankyness; however, it can also hint that the champion with increased health has less agility and thus is unable to escape additional harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Swain and Viego
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Who is Better, Swain or Viego?
Both LoL champs are great champions. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Swain usually fairs equally well when trying to fight Viego, with a 49.3% win rate. Therefore, Swain makes an ok counter for Viego.
While Swain does have a lower winrate than Viego, when on opposite teams, Swain also has a much greater level of difficulty that makes him a more difficult champion to learn. You still need to be cautious when picking Swain into Viegoas 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 utility and CC, a similar amount to Viego. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when fighting champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion overall in League of Legends, in Swain vs Viego matchups, Viego is the better champion with a similar win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during team fights.
Swain is a somewhat poor counter for Viego. Make sure you focus your actions on keeping up your gold income and clearing objectives. If you do that, you should hold your own as Swain against Viego.
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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 Viego during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to learn a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you listen to 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 typically accumulates more CS relative to Viego. Champs who on average don't earn much CS often don't need much CS to be effective, such as support champions. They are able to scale properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually need many items to be effective. In either situation, try to surpass the values displayed on this page to do well.
The most crucial items to use in your Swain versus Viego build consist of Rylai's Crystal Scepter, Morellonomicon, and Liandry's Torment. When Swain bought at least these three items in his build, he performed significantly better vs Viego than with many other typical item sets. In fact, Swain had an average win rate of 49.3% battling Viego with this counter build.
To have the highest likelihood of defeating Viego as Swain, you 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 players chose for Swain vs Viego clashes, this mix of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 49.3% winrate overall.
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