Veigar vs Swain
How to Beat Swain as Veigar
based on 5,239 Veigar vs Swain matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Veigar vs Swain Matchup Summary
Best Veigar vs Swain Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Swain as Veigar
Tips for Playing as Veigar against Swain
Veigar is extremely Mana and Cooldown Reduction dependent. Try buying items with these stats in order to increase the effectiveness of your passive and Baleful Strike.
Veigar is very fragile. It is valuable to select at least one summoner spell that can be used defensively.
Use Event Horizon to increase your chances of landing Dark Matter.
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.
Veigar vs Swain Counter Stats
How to Counter Swain with Veigar in LoL
The stats shown here show some critical Veigar vs. Swain counter stats that may help us figure out the differences and similarities between the pair. As an example, Veigar’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Swain’s KDA ratio of NaN, showing that Veigar may be more central to his team's team fighting potential than Swain..
Veigar typically has a slightly larger longest killing spree than his foe does. On average, he receives less damage than Swain. This often reflects differing health capacities; however, it can also show that the one champ has less agility and thus is unable to flee from further harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Veigar and Swain
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Who is Better, Veigar or Swain?
Both League of Legends champions are great champions. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Veigar usually loses when taking on Swain, with a 48.8% win rate. As a result, Veigar makes a poor counter for Swain.
While Veigar does have a lower win rate than Swain, when they face off with one another, Veigar also has a lower difficulty level that makes him a less complex character to learn and master. You should be careful when picking Veigar into Swainas his relative depth means you may not be able to reach his full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Moreover, Veigar also has a good amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Swain. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when fighting champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Veigar vs Swain matchups, Swain is the better champion with a lower win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during team fights.
Veigar is a somewhat poor counter to Swain. Make sure you focus your gameplay on increasing your gold income and clearing objectives. If you do that, you should hold your own as Veigar against Swain.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Veigar to counter Swain during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to learn a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you listen to the build and tips displayed above, you will grow your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Veigar on average racks up more CS as Swain. Champs who on average don't earn much CS usualy don't have to have much CS to be effective, such as sup champs. They are able to scale well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically have to have a lot of items to be effective. In either situation, try to surpass the values displayed here to do well.
The most important items to use in your Veigar versus Swain build consist of Rabadon's Deathcap, Void Staff, and Stormsurge. When Veigar bought at least these three pieces in his build, he performed a lot better versus Swain than with many other common builds. In fact, Veigar boasted an average winrate of 48.8% when playing against Swain with this counter build.
To have the greatest probability of vanquishing Swain as Veigar, Veigar players should take the Electrocute, Taste of Blood, Eyeball Collection, Ingenious Hunter, Manaflow Band, and Transcendence runes from the Domination and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations players chose for Veigar vs Swain counters, this combination of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 48.8% winrate overall.
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