Thresh vs Swain
How to Beat Swain as Thresh
based on 5,767 Thresh vs Swain matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Thresh vs Swain Matchup Summary
Best Thresh vs Swain Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Swain as Thresh
Tips for Playing as Thresh against Swain
Communication is key when making use of Thresh's lantern. Let your teammates know how you like to use it.
Death Sentence and Flay can be combined in either cast order for powerful combinations.
Thresh can collect souls without needing to kill units himself. Planning your map position to be near the most deaths will help to maximize soul collection.
Advice to Win Against Swain
Buying an item with Grievous Wounds will make Swain much easier to kill during his Demonic Ascension.
Swain's passive is very potent if you are immobilized. Make sure to be extra careful around enemies who have immobilizing effects.
High mobility counters all of Swain's basic abilities: Death's Hand does more damage the closer he is, Vision of Empire has a very long delay and Nevermove must start returning back to him to be dangerous.
Thresh vs Swain Counter Stats
How to Counter Swain with Thresh in LoL
The stats shown on this page clarify several vital Thresh versus Swain matchup statistics that can help you realize the differences and similarities between the pair. Thresh’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Swain’s KDA ratio of NaN, highlighting that Thresh may be more central to his team's team fighting capacity than Swain..
Thresh usually has a significantly smaller longest killing spree than his matchup does. On average, he takes less damage than Swain. This typically indicates different amounts of tankyness; however, it can also show that the champion with increased health has less agility and thus is unable to flee from further damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Thresh and Swain
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Who is Better, Thresh or Swain?
Both League champs are great. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Thresh usually loses when taking on Swain, with a 44.9% win rate. Therefore, Thresh makes a poor counter for Swain.
While Thresh does have a much lower winrate compared to Swain, when on opposite teams, Thresh also has a lower learning curve that makes him a less challenging champion to learn. You should be very concerned when picking Thresh into Swainas his relative depth means that you may not be able to reach his full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Furthermore, Thresh also has a great deal of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Swain. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when trying to counter champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion overall in League of Legends, in Thresh vs Swain matchups, Swain is the better champion with a much lower win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during late stage team fights.
Thresh is a garbage counter for Swain. Focus your strategy on maximizing your gold income and taking out objectives. If you are able to do that, you should hold your own as Thresh against Swain.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Thresh to counter Swain during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you listen to the build and tips displayed here, you will increase your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Thresh often picks up less CS relative to Swain. Champs who on average don't take much CS often don't have to have much CS to be valuable teammates, such as sup champs. These kinds of champions are able to scale well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically need many items to be effective. In either situation, try to surpass the numbers reported here to do well.
The most important items to have in your Thresh versus Swain build include Trailblazer, Locket of the Iron Solari, and Celestial Opposition. When Thresh bought at least these three pieces in his build, he performed significantly better versus Swain than with most other commonly used item sets. In fact, Thresh boasted an average winrate of 44.9% battling Swain with this counter build.
To have the best likelihood of coming out on top against Swain as Thresh, you should use the Guardian, Font of Life, Bone Plating, Unflinching, Biscuit Delivery, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Resolve and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations we have analyed for Thresh vs Swain face-offs, this mixture of runes yielded the highest win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 44.9% winrate overall.
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