Swain vs Yorick
How to Beat Yorick as Swain
based on 3,388 Swain vs Yorick matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Swain vs Yorick Matchup Summary
Best Swain vs Yorick Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Yorick as Swain
Tips for Playing as Swain against Yorick
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 Yorick
You can cast Smite on Mist Walkers and the Maiden of the Mist to damage or kill them.
You can attack Dark Procession to break the wall down.
Try to thin out Yorick's minions before you engage him, Mist Walkers will die from a basic attack or a single target spell.
Swain vs Yorick Counter Stats
How to Counter Yorick with Swain in LoL
The stat comparisons shown here emphasize several vital Swain against Yorick matchup statistics that can help us distinguish the differences and similarities between the two. For instance, Swain’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Yorick’s KDA ratio of NaN, highlighting that Swain may be more central to his team's team fighting capacity than Yorick. This observation is largely a result of the differences in assists.
Swain often has a similar longest killing spree as his matchup does. Commonly, he takes a similar amount of damage to Yorick. This is usually reflective of differing health capacities, yet it can also indicate that the one champion has less mobility and thus is not able to escape additional damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Swain and Yorick
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Who is Better, Swain or Yorick?
Both League of Legends champs are great champions. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Swain usually wins when playing against Yorick, with a 51.6% win rate. As a result, Swain makes a good counter to Yorick.
While Swain does have a higher win rate than Yorick, when facing one another, Swain also has a greater level of difficulty that makes him a more challenging champ to learn and master. You still need to be cautious when picking Swain into Yorickas his relative depth means you may not be able to reach his full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Moreover, Swain has some amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Yorick. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when facing champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion overall in League of Legends, in Swain vs Yorick matchups, Swain is the better champion with a higher win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during teamfights.
Swain is a decent counter for Yorick. Make sure you focus your tactics on increasing your CS and destroying objectives. If you are able to do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Swain against Yorick.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Swain to counter Yorick during both the early game 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 listen to the build and suggestions presented here, you will increase your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Swain on average gets less CS relative to Yorick. Champions who typically don't get many minion kills often don't have to have much CS to be effective, such as support champions. They are capable of scaling well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically require many items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the values reported on this page to do well.
The most crucial items to focus on in your Swain versus Yorick build consist of Malignance, Zhonya's Hourglass, and Zaz'Zak's Realmspike. When Swain combined at least these three pieces in his build, he did much better against Yorick than with many other common counter builds. In fact, Swain had an average win rate of 51.6% when countering Yorick with these items in his kit.
To have the highest likelihood of crushing Yorick as Swain, Swain players should take the Electrocute, Cheap Shot, Eyeball Collection, Ultimate Hunter, Coup de Grace, and Presence of Mind runes from the Domination and Precision rune sets. Of all the rune sets we have analyed for Swain vs Yorick battles, this mixture of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 51.6% winrate overall.
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