Swain vs Warwick
How to Beat Warwick as Swain
based on 6,344 Swain vs Warwick matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Swain vs Warwick Matchup Summary
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Guide to Countering Warwick as Swain
Tips for Playing as Swain against Warwick
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 Warwick
Warwick's attacks heal him at low health. Save your disables to finish him off.
Warwick's ultimate cast range scales with his Move Speed.
Warwick is empowered versus low health enemies. Manage your health to keep him at bay.
Swain vs Warwick Counter Stats
How to Counter Warwick with Swain in LoL
The stats provided here emphasize some important Swain versus Warwick matchup stats that may help us appreciate the differences and similarities between the pair. As an example, Swain’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Warwick’s KDA ratio of NaN, highlighting that Swain may be more central to his team's team fighting potential than Warwick..
Swain usually has a slightly smaller longest kill spree than his opponent does. Typically, he receives less damage than Warwick. This is usually reflective of different amounts of tankyness, but it can also illustrate that the champ with higher HP has less agility and thus is not able to kite away from further harm when engaged or poked.
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Who is Better, Swain or Warwick?
Both LoL champions are great. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Swain usually wins when facing off against Warwick, with a 53.7% win rate. As a result, Swain makes a great counter for Warwick.
While Swain does have a higher win rate than Warwick, when facing one another, Swain also has a much greater learning curve that makes him a more difficult character to pick up and master. You don't need to be too worried when picking Swain into Warwickas his relative depth means that you may not be able to unleash 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 Warwick. 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 Warwick matchups, Swain is the better champion with a noticably higher win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during late stage team fights.
Swain is a great counter to Warwick. Make sure you focus your strategy on keeping up your CS and clearing objectives. If you can do that, you should do very well as Swain against Warwick.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Swain to counter Warwick 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 mind the build and stats displayed here, you should grow your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Swain most often accumulates more CS as Warwick. Champs who typically don't earn much CS typically don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as supports. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, often need a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to exceed the values reported on this page to do well.
The ideal items to focus on in your Swain versus Warwick build include Rylai's Crystal Scepter, Zhonya's Hourglass, and Riftmaker. When Swain bought at least these three items in his build, he did significantly better countering Warwick than with many other common counter builds. In fact, Swain had an average winrate of 53.7% when playing against Warwick with this build.
To have the best chance of vanquishing Warwick as Swain, you should use the Summon Aery, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Scorch, Conditioning, and Overgrowth runes from the Sorcery and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations players picked for Swain vs Warwick face-offs, this sequence of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 53.7% winrate overall.
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