Yone vs Swain
How to Beat Swain as Yone
based on 8,734 Yone vs Swain matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Yone vs Swain Matchup Summary
Best Yone vs Swain Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Swain as Yone
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.
Yone vs Swain Counter Stats
How to Counter Swain with Yone in LoL
The stat comparisons provided here highlight several significant Yone against Swain matchup stats that may help you realize the differences and similarities between the two. As an example, Yone’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Swain’s ratio of NaN, indicating that Yone may be more central to his team's team fighting capability than Swain..
Yone often has a slightly larger longest kill spree than his enemy does. Commonly, he receives less damage than Swain. This is usually reflective of different amounts of tankyness, but it can also illustrate that the one champ has less mobility and thus is not able to kite away from additional damage when engaged or poked.
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Who is Better, Yone or Swain?
Both League of Legends champs are great. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Yone usually fairs equally well when trying to fight Swain, with a 50.4% win rate. Thus, Yone makes an ok counter for Swain.
While Yone does have a higher winrate than Swain, when facing one another, Yone also has a greater learning curve that makes him a more difficult champion to learn and master. You should be careful when picking Yone into Swainas his relative depth means you may not be able to unleash his full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Furthermore, Yone has only a small amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Swain. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when trying to counter champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion in League of Legends, in Yone vs Swain matchups, Yone is the better champ with a similar win rate, similar champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during team fights.
Yone is a decent counter for Swain. Focus your strategy on increasing your CS and destroying objectives. If you do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Yone against Swain.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Yone in order to counter Swain during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to learn a few extra tricks and insights into 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.
Yone on average gets more CS as Swain. Champs who typically don't acquire many minion kills often don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as supports. 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, usually require many items to be effective. In either case, try to surpass the values shown here to do well.
The best items to use in your Yone versus Swain build consist of Infinity Edge, Bloodthirster, and Blade of The Ruined King. When Yone used at least these three items in his build, he performed much better vs. Swain than with many other typical counter builds. In fact, Yone had an average win rate of 50.4% when countering Swain with these items in his kit.
To have the greatest chance of annihilating Swain as Yone, you should equip the Lethal Tempo, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Last Stand, Second Wind, and Overgrowth runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations players used for Yone vs Swain counters, this order of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 50.4% winrate overall.
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