Vi vs Swain
How to Beat Swain as Vi
based on 4,003 Vi vs Swain matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Vi vs Swain Matchup Summary
Best Vi vs Swain Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Swain as Vi
Tips for Playing as Vi against Swain
A fully charged Vault Breaker will deal double damage. It's great for catching and finishing off fleeing enemies.
Relentless Force does full damage to anyone caught in the shockwave. Use it on minions in lane to hit enemies hiding behind them.
Cease and Desist is a powerful initiation tool, just remember not to get too far ahead of the rest of your team.
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.
Vi vs Swain Counter Stats
How to Counter Swain with Vi in LoL
The stat comparisons shown here underscore some vital Vi against Swain counter stats that may help us figure out the differences between the pair. Vi’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Swain’s ratio of NaN, indicating that Vi may be more central to her team's team fighting capacity than Swain..
Vi typically has a similar longest kill spree as her opponent does. Typically, she receives a similar amount of damage to Swain. This typically indicates differing health capacities, but it can also hint that the one champ has less mobility and thus is unable to flee from additional harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Vi and Swain
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Who is Better, Vi or Swain?
Both League champions are great champions. Both have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Vi usually loses when facing off against Swain, with a 48.8% win rate. Therefore, Vi makes a poor counter to Swain.
While Vi does have a lower win rate than Swain, when on opposite teams, Vi also has a much lower learning curve that makes her a less difficult character to develop with. You still need to be cautious when picking Vi into Swain.
Additionally, Vi has almost no amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Swain. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when facing champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion overall in League of Legends, in Vi 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 allies during late stage team fights.
Vi is a somewhat poor counter to Swain. You will do well by focussing your play on increasing your gold income and clearing objectives. If you do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Vi against Swain.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Vi in order to counter Swain during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to learn a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you listen to the build and tips presented above, you will grow your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Vi most often gets less CS relative to Swain. Champions who typically don't acquire much CS usualy don't need much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically need many items to be effective. In either situation, try to exceed the numbers displayed on this page to do well.
The most important items to have in your Vi versus Swain build include Experimental Hexplate, Trinity Force, and Sundered Sky. When Vi combined at least these three items in her build, she performed a lot better when fighting Swain than with most other common item sets. In fact, Vi boasted an average win rate of 48.8% when playing against Swain with these items in her kit.
To have the best chance of beating Swain as Vi, Vi players should equip the Hail of Blades, Sudden Impact, Eyeball Collection, Relentless Hunter, Legend: Alacrity, and Triumph runes from the Domination and Precision rune sets. Of all the runes players chose for Vi vs Swain counter picks, this sequence of runes yielded the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 48.8% win rate overall.
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