Warwick vs Swain
How to Beat Swain as Warwick
based on 6,344 Warwick vs Swain matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Warwick vs Swain Matchup Summary
Best Warwick vs Swain Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Swain as Warwick
Tips for Playing as Warwick against Swain
Infinite Duress (R)'s distance scales with any Move Speed you gain, even from ally buffs and summoner spells.
Follow your Blood Hunt trails to low health enemy champions.
Jaws of the Beast (Q) will follow enemies who run, dash or teleport if you keep the button held down.
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.
Warwick vs Swain Counter Stats
How to Counter Swain with Warwick in LoL
The stat comparisons shown here clarify several significant Warwick versus Swain matchup statistics that may help you distinguish the differences and similarities between the two. As an example, Warwick’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Swain’s ratio of NaN, indicating that Warwick may be more central to his team's team fighting capacity than Swain..
Warwick typically has a slightly larger longest killing spree than his counter does. Commonly, he takes more damage than Swain. This is usually reflective of different amounts of tankyness, but it can also indicate that the champion with higher HP has less agility and thus is unable to escape further damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Warwick and Swain
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Who is Better, Warwick or Swain?
Both LoL champs are great champions. Both have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Warwick usually loses when playing against Swain, with a 46.3% win rate. As a result, Warwick makes a poor counter for Swain.
While Warwick does have a lower win rate than Swain, when they face off with one another, Warwick also has a much lower difficulty level that makes him a less time consuming champ to pick up and master. You may get destroyed when picking Warwick into Swain.
Moreover, Warwick also has some amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Swain. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when facing champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion overall in League of Legends, in Warwick vs Swain matchups, Swain is the better champ with a much lower win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during teamfights.
Warwick is a garbage counter for Swain. Make sure you focus your play on maximizing your gold income and taking out objectives. If you can do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Warwick against Swain.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Warwick to counter Swain during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to gather a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you listen to the build and stats presented here, you should grow your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Warwick most often gets less CS compared to Swain. Champs who typically don't take much CS usualy don't have to have much CS to be effective, such as supports. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, often require many items to be effective. In either case, try to exceed the numbers reported on this page to do well.
The top items to have in your Warwick versus Swain build consist of Sterak's Gage, Experimental Hexplate, and Sundered Sky. When Warwick bought at least these three pieces in his build, he performed significantly better versus Swain than with many other commonly used counter builds. In fact, Warwick had an average win rate of 46.3% battling Swain with this counter build.
To have the greatest probability of annihilating Swain as Warwick, you should take the Press the Attack, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Last Stand, Celerity, and Waterwalking runes from the Precision and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the rune combinations that we analyzed for Warwick vs Swain counters, this mix of runes resulted in the best win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 46.3% win rate overall.
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