Swain vs Viktor
How to Beat Viktor as Swain
based on 1,958 Swain vs Viktor matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Swain vs Viktor Matchup Summary
Best Swain vs Viktor Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Viktor as Swain
Tips for Playing as Swain against Viktor
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 Viktor
Be careful about how close you let Viktor get to you. Viktor's control of the battlefield increases with his proximity to his opponent.
Be aware of how many augments Viktor has upgraded by looking at the color of the light on his staff (purple, yellow, blue, red).
Swain vs Viktor Counter Stats
How to Counter Viktor with Swain in LoL
The stats shown on this page highlight some critical Swain versus Viktor counter statistics that may help you explain the differences between these two champs. For instance, Swain’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Viktor’s KDA ratio of NaN, highlighting that Swain may be more central to his team's team fighting potential than Viktor..
Swain usually has a slightly smaller longest kill spree than his matchup does. Typically, he receives more damage than Viktor. This often reflects different amounts of tankyness, but it can also imply that the champ with increased HP has less agility and thus is not able to flee from additional damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Swain and Viktor
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Who is Better, Swain or Viktor?
Both League champs are great. Both have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Swain usually fairs equally well when playing against Viktor, with a 49.4% win rate. Thus, Swain makes an ok counter to Viktor.
While Swain does have a lower win rate compared to Viktor, when on opposite teams, Swain also has a lower level of difficulty that makes him a less challenging champion to learn. You still need to be cautious when picking Swain into Viktoras his relative depth means you may not be able to unleash his full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Furthermore, Swain has some amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Viktor. This 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 for every situation in League of Legends, in Swain vs Viktor matchups, Viktor is the better champ with a similar win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during team fights.
Swain is a somewhat poor counter for Viktor. You will do well by focussing your tactics on keeping up your gold income and clearing objectives. If you do that, you should do very well as Swain against Viktor.
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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 Viktor during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to gather a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you mind the build and stats shown here, you will grow your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Swain on average accumulates less CS compared to Viktor. Champs who typically don't get much CS typically don't require much CS to be effective, such as sup champs. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, often require several high cost items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the numbers displayed on this page to do well.
The ideal items to focus on in your Swain versus Viktor build include Rylai's Crystal Scepter, Malignance, and Zhonya's Hourglass. When Swain used at least these three items in his build, he did significantly better against Viktor than with many other typical counter builds. In fact, Swain had an average winrate of 49.4% when countering Viktor with these items in his kit.
To have the greatest chance of vanquishing Viktor 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. Of all the rune sets that we analyzed for Swain vs Viktor counter picks, this combination of runes yielded the highest win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 49.4% winrate overall.
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