Swain vs Volibear
How to Beat Volibear as Swain
based on 2,976 Swain vs Volibear matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Swain vs Volibear Matchup Summary
Best Swain vs Volibear Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Volibear as Swain
Tips for Playing as Swain against Volibear
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 Volibear Counter Stats
How to Counter Volibear with Swain in LoL
The stats shown here emphasize some significant Swain vs. Volibear counter stats that may help us understand the differences and similarities between these two champs. Swain’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Volibear’s KDA ratio of NaN, highlighting that Swain may be more central to his team's team fighting potential than Volibear. This observation is in large part a result of the differences in assists.
Swain often has a similar longest killing spree as his matchup does. Typically, he receives less damage than Volibear. This is usually reflective of different amounts of tankyness, but it can also hint that the champion with increased HP has less mobility and thus is not able to escape additional harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Swain and Volibear
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Who is Better, Swain or Volibear?
Both League of Legends champions are great champions. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Swain usually wins when taking on Volibear, with a 52.6% win rate. Thus, Swain makes a good counter for Volibear.
While Swain does have a higher win rate compared to Volibear, when they face off with one another, Swain also has a much greater level of difficulty that makes him a more time consuming character to develop with. You don't need to be too worried when picking Swain into Volibearas his relative depth means you may not be able to reach his full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Furthermore, Swain also has some amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Volibear. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when fighting champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion overall in League of Legends, in Swain vs Volibear matchups, Swain is the better champ with a noticably 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 an above average counter to Volibear. Make sure you focus your tactics on keeping up your gold income and clearing objectives. If you are able to do that, you should hold your own as Swain against Volibear.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Swain in order to counter Volibear during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to gather a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and suggestions displayed above, you should grow your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Swain typically racks up a similar amount of CS compared to Volibear. Champs who on average don't earn many minion kills usualy don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as supports. They are capable of scaling properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually need a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the numbers reported here to do well.
The top items to have in your Swain versus Volibear build include Rylai's Crystal Scepter, Zhonya's Hourglass, and Zaz'Zak's Realmspike. When Swain incorporated at least these three pieces in his build, he performed a lot better countering Volibear than with most other commonly used builds. In fact, Swain had an average win rate of 52.6% when countering Volibear with this build.
To have the greatest probability of beating Volibear 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. Out of all the rune combinations we have analyed for Swain vs Volibear fights, this mixture of runes yielded the highest win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 52.6% winrate overall.
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