Zilean vs Swain
How to Beat Swain as Zilean
based on 1,637 Zilean vs Swain matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Zilean vs Swain Matchup Summary
Best Zilean vs Swain Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Swain as Zilean
Tips for Playing as Zilean against Swain
Time Warp is an effective way to enable allies to finish off enemies, or escape from a losing battle.
Chronoshift is a powerful deterrent to attacking your carries, but casting Chronoshift too early in a fight can cause the enemy to switch targets too soon, making it less effective.
You can combine the use of Time Bomb and Rewind to place two Time Bombs on a target quickly. Placing the second bomb will detonate the first and stun all nearby enemies.
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.
Zilean vs Swain Counter Stats
How to Counter Swain with Zilean in LoL
The stat comparisons shown here highlight several valuable Zilean versus Swain counter stats that can help you realize the differences and similarities between the two. As an example, Zilean’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Swain’s KDA ratio of NaN, showing that Zilean may be more central to his team's team fighting capacity than Swain..
Zilean typically has a slightly smaller longest kill spree than his foe does. Typically, he takes less damage than Swain. This typically indicates differing health capacities, but it can also imply that the champ with higher HP has less agility and thus is unable to kite away from further harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Zilean and Swain
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Who is Better, Zilean or Swain?
Both League of Legends champions are great champions. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Zilean usually loses when trying to fight Swain, with a 48.9% win rate. Therefore, Zilean makes a bad counter to Swain.
While Zilean does have a lower win rate compared to Swain, when they face off with one another, Zilean also has a lower difficulty level that makes him a less challenging character to learn and master. You still need to be cautious when picking Zilean into Swain.
Moreover, Zilean has a very large amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Swain. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when trying to counter champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion overall in League of Legends, in Zilean 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 allied champions during team fights.
Zilean is a somewhat poor counter to Swain. Focus your tactics on keeping up your CS and clearing objectives. If you can do that, you should hold your own as Zilean against Swain.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Zilean in order to counter Swain during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you mind 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.
Zilean most often picks up less CS as Swain. Champions who on average don't get much CS usualy don't require much CS to be effective, such as supports. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually need several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to exceed the numbers reported here to do well.
The best items to have in your Zilean versus Swain build consist of Shurelya's Battlesong, Solstice Sleigh, and Imperial Mandate. When Zilean used at least these three items in his build, he performed much better when fighting Swain than with most other commonly used counter builds. In fact, Zilean had an average win rate of 48.9% when playing against Swain with this counter build.
To have the best chance of defeating Swain as Zilean, Zilean players should equip the Summon Aery, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Waterwalking, Cheap Shot, and Relentless Hunter runes from the Sorcery and Domination rune sets. Out of all the rune sets players picked for Zilean vs Swain LoL games, this set of runes yielded the best win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 48.9% winrate overall.
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