Trundle vs Swain
How to Beat Swain as Trundle
based on 9,177 Trundle vs Swain matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Trundle vs Swain Matchup Summary
Best Trundle vs Swain Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Swain as Trundle
Tips for Playing as Trundle against Swain
Use Subjugate to soften a powerful enemy tank or to create a target for your team to focus fire.
Trundle excels at fighting within his Frozen Domain. Try to draw enemies onto it.
Chomp is good for lowering the physical damage of enemies; try to focus it on enemy physical damage dealers.
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.
Trundle vs Swain Counter Stats
How to Counter Swain with Trundle in LoL
The stats shown here clarify several critical Trundle versus Swain matchup statistics that may help us grasp the differences and similarities between these two champions. For instance, Trundle’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Swain’s ratio of NaN, highlighting that Trundle may be more central to his team's team fighting capacity than Swain..
Trundle typically has a similar longest killing spree as his counter does. Commonly, he receives more damage than Swain. This often reflects different amounts of tankyness; however, it can also indicate that the one champ has less agility and thus is unable to kite away from further harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Trundle and Swain
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Who is Better, Trundle or Swain?
Both League champs are great champions. Both champs have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Trundle usually wins when playing against Swain, with a 52.2% win rate. As a result, Trundle makes a good counter for Swain.
While Trundle does have a higher win rate compared to Swain, when they face off with one another, Trundle also has a lower learning curve that makes him a less challenging champion to learn. You don't need to be too worried when picking Trundle into Swain.
Additionally, Trundle also has some amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Swain. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when fighting champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Trundle vs Swain matchups, Trundle is the better champion with a noticably higher win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during teamfights.
Trundle is an above average counter for Swain. Focus your strategy on increasing your gold and cs and destroying objectives. If you are able to do that, you should hold your own as Trundle against Swain.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Trundle in order to counter Swain during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to pick up a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and tips displayed above, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Trundle on average gets a similar amount of CS compared to Swain. Champs who typically don't acquire much CS typically don't have to have much CS to be valuable teammates, such as supports. These kinds of champions are able to scale well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically require many items to be effective. In either situation, try to exceed the numbers reported here to do well.
The best items to have in your Trundle versus Swain build consist of Trinity Force, Hullbreaker, and Titanic Hydra. When Trundle bought at least these three items in his build, he did a lot better vs Swain than with many other typical builds. In fact, Trundle had an average win rate of 52.2% when countering Swain with this build.
To have the best probability of coming out on top against Swain as Trundle, Trundle players should equip the Lethal Tempo, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Coup de Grace, Magical Footwear, and Approach Velocity runes from the Precision and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the rune sets players used for Trundle vs Swain matchups, this combination of runes yielded the best win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 52.2% win rate overall.
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