Ahri vs Swain
How to Beat Swain as Ahri
based on 4,335 Ahri vs Swain matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Ahri vs Swain Matchup Summary
Best Ahri vs Swain Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Swain as Ahri
Tips for Playing as Ahri against Swain
Initiate team fights using Charm, and chase down stragglers with Spirit Rush.
Spirit Rush enables Ahri's abilities, it opens up paths for Charm, helps double hitting with Orb of Deception, and closes to make use of Fox-Fire.
Use Charm to set up your combos, it will make landing Orb of Deception and Fox-Fire dramatically easier.
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.
Ahri vs Swain Counter Stats
How to Counter Swain with Ahri in LoL
The stats shown here emphasize several critical Ahri against Swain matchup stats that can help us distinguish the differences and similarities between the pair. As an example, Ahri’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Swain’s ratio of NaN, highlighting that Ahri may be more central to her team's team fighting effectiveness than Swain..
Ahri typically has a similar longest killing spree as her opponent does. On average, she takes less damage than Swain. This commonly reflects differing health capacities, but it can also show that the champ with more health has less agility and thus is unable to escape additional damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Ahri and Swain
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Who is Better, Ahri or Swain?
Both League of Legends champs are great champions. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Ahri usually loses when trying to fight Swain, with a 47.6% win rate. Therefore, Ahri makes a bad counter to Swain.
While Ahri does have a lower winrate compared to Swain, when they face off with one another, Ahri also has a lower difficulty level that makes her a less challenging champ to pick up and master. You may get destroyed when picking Ahri into Swain.
Moreover, Ahri has a good 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 isn't one best champion overall in League of Legends, in Ahri vs Swain matchups, Swain is the better champ with a lower win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during teamfights.
Ahri is a trash counter to Swain. Focus your strategy on increasing your gold and cs and clearing objectives. If you do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Ahri against Swain.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Ahri 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 suggestions presented here, you will increase your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Ahri typically accumulates more CS as Swain. Champions who typically don't take much CS often don't need much CS to be effective, such as support champions. They are capable of scaling well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, often have to have a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the values shown on this page to do well.
The top items to prioritize in your Ahri versus Swain build consist of Rabadon's Deathcap, Zhonya's Hourglass, and Luden's Companion. When Ahri incorporated at least these three pieces in her build, she did a lot better versus Swain than with many other commonly used builds. In fact, Ahri boasted an average winrate of 47.6% battling Swain with these items in her kit.
To have the best probability of vanquishing Swain as Ahri, you should equip the Electrocute, Taste of Blood, Eyeball Collection, Ultimate Hunter, Manaflow Band, and Transcendence runes from the Domination and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the rune sets we have analyed for Ahri vs Swain counter picks, this set of runes yielded the best win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 47.6% win rate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to beat Swain as Ahri are given for all skill levels combined. To narrow the stats and builds to a specific skill level, you should use the selection menu at the top of this page.