Tristana vs Swain
How to Beat Swain as Tristana
based on 4,710 Tristana vs Swain matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Tristana vs Swain Matchup Summary
Best Tristana vs Swain Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Swain as Tristana
Tips for Playing as Tristana against Swain
Use Rapid Fire to help stack up your Explosive Charge on enemy champions.
Her massive gun allows Tristana to fire on targets at a great distance. Utilize this to prevent your enemies from ever laying a hand on you.
Use Rocket Jump after you have stacked up your Explosive Charge on an enemy to finish them off with a burst of damage.
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.
Tristana vs Swain Counter Stats
How to Counter Swain with Tristana in LoL
The stat comparisons shown here show several vital Tristana versus Swain matchup stats that can help us appreciate the differences and similarities between the two. As an example, Tristana’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Swain’s ratio of NaN, indicating that Tristana may be more central to her team's team fighting effectiveness than Swain..
Tristana often has a slightly larger longest kill spree than her foe does. Typically, she receives less damage than Swain. This often reflects different amounts of tankyness; however, it can also indicate that the champion with higher HP has less agility and thus is not able to kite away from additional damage when engaged or poked.
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Who is Better, Tristana or Swain?
Both League champs are great champions. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Tristana usually loses when trying to fight Swain, with a 47.4% win rate. As a result, Tristana makes a poor counter to Swain.
While Tristana does have a lower winrate compared to Swain, when they face off with one another, Tristana also has a much lower level of difficulty that makes her a less difficult champ to develop with. You should be very concerned when picking Tristana into Swain.
Moreover, Tristana also has only a small amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Swain. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when trying to counter champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion in League of Legends, in Tristana vs Swain matchups, Swain is the better champ with a lower win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during late stage team fights.
Tristana is a garbage counter to Swain. Make sure you focus your tactics on increasing your CS and destroying objectives. If you can do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Tristana against Swain.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Tristana to counter Swain during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you mind the build and stats shown above, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Tristana often racks up more CS relative to Swain. Champions who typically don't get much CS typically don't have to have 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 a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually need a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to surpass the numbers reported here to do well.
The most crucial items to focus on in your Tristana versus Swain build consist of Guardian Angel, Kraken Slayer, and Navori Quickblades. When Tristana incorporated at least these three pieces in her build, she performed significantly better when facing Swain than with many other common counter builds. In fact, Tristana boasted an average winrate of 47.4% battling Swain with this build.
To have the greatest probability of crushing Swain as Tristana, you should equip the Hail of Blades, Taste of Blood, Eyeball Collection, Treasure Hunter, Legend: Bloodline, and Triumph runes from the Domination and Precision rune sets. Out of all the rune sets players used for Tristana vs Swain LoL games, this mix of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 47.4% win rate overall.
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