Durante a fase de rotas, tente usar o dano perfurante de Mão da Morte para causar dano a inimigos de um distância segura.
Visão do Império é bem difícil de acertar por si só, então tente procurar por combates pelo mapa nos quais os inimigos podem estar distraídos ou sob efeitos de Controle de Grupo.
Se você está com problemas para prender inimigos com Nuncamova, tente lançá-la em oponentes quando eles estão perto de suas tropas de forma que a explosão os surpreenda.
Ascensão Demoníaca pode fazer com que Swain seja mais difícil de abater, mas é bem fácil fugir dele. Tente construir itens que reduzam a velocidade de seus oponentes para mantê-los distantes caso sua mobilidade seja muito alta.
O alcance de Xerath pode ser intimidante, mas a maioria dos campeões que o enfrentam de perto conseguem bons resultados na troca de dano.
O Véu da Banshee faz com que seja muito mais difícil para Xerath acertar Orbe Eletrizante em você.
Xerath leva muito tempo para engajar com Ritual Arcano. Tenha atenção em sua animação de conjuração e comece a desviar.
The stats provided here highlight several important Swain against Xerath matchup stats that may help us grasp the distinctions between the two. As an example, Swain’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Xerath’s KDA ratio of NaN, showing that Swain may be more central to his team's team fighting potential than Xerath..
Swain normally has a similar longest killing spree as his enemy does. Typically, he receives more damage than Xerath. This typically indicates differing health capacities, yet it can also imply that the champion with more HP has less agility and thus is not able to flee from further damage when poked or engaged.
Both League champs are great. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Swain usually loses when facing off against Xerath, with a 48.5% win rate. Thus, Swain makes a poor counter for Xerath.
While Swain does have a lower winrate compared to Xerath, when on opposite teams, Swain also has a greater learning curve that makes him a more difficult champion to pick up and master. You still need to be cautious when picking Swain into Xerathas his relative depth means you may not be able to reach his full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Moreover, Swain also has some amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Xerath. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when facing champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion overall in League of Legends, in Swain vs Xerath matchups, Xerath is the better champ with a lower win rate, similar champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during team fights.
Swain is a somewhat poor counter to Xerath. You will do well by focussing your strategy on maximizing your CS and taking out objectives. If you do that, you should do very well as Swain against Xerath.
If you would like to truly master Swain to counter Xerath during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to pick up a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and stats presented here, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Swain most often accumulates a similar amount of CS relative to Xerath. Champs who on average don't get much CS usualy don't have to have much CS to be effective, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, often have to have a lot of items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the values displayed on this page to do well.
The top items to focus on in your Swain versus Xerath build include Semblante Espiritual, Cetro de Cristal de Rylai, and Tormento de Liandry. When Swain bought at least these three items in his build, he did a lot better vs Xerath than with most other typical item sets. In fact, Swain had an average winrate of 48.5% when countering Xerath with these items in his kit.
To have the best likelihood of annihilating Xerath as Swain, you should equip the Invocar Aery, Faixa de Fluxo de Mana, Transcendência, Chamuscar, Condicionamento, and Crescimento Excessivo runes from the Feitiçaria and Determinação rune sets. Of all the runes we have analyed for Swain vs Xerath counter picks, this sequence of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 48.5% winrate overall.
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