Amumu vs Swain
How to Beat Swain as Amumu
based on 3,462 Amumu vs Swain matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Amumu vs Swain Matchup Summary
Best Amumu vs Swain Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Swain as Amumu
Tips for Playing as Amumu against Swain
Despair is very effective against other tanks, so make sure you're in range of opponents with the highest Health.
Amumu is highly dependent on teammates, so try laning with your friends for maximum effectiveness.
Cooldown Reduction on Amumu is very strong, but it's often difficult to itemize for it. Grab the Golem buff whenever possible to gain Cooldown Reduction without sacrificing stats.
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.
Amumu vs Swain Counter Stats
How to Counter Swain with Amumu in LoL
The stats shown here highlight several important Amumu versus Swain matchup statistics that can help you explain the differences between these two champs. Amumu’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Swain’s ratio of NaN, indicating that Amumu may be more central to his team's team fighting potential than Swain..
Amumu usually has a slightly smaller longest killing spree than his counter does. On average, he receives a similar amount of damage to Swain. This typically indicates different amounts of tankyness, but it can also hint that the champ with more health has less agility and thus is unable to flee from further harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Amumu and Swain
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Who is Better, Amumu or Swain?
Both League champs are great champions. Both have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Amumu usually loses when trying to fight Swain, with a 46.9% win rate. Thus, Amumu makes a bad counter for Swain.
While Amumu does have a lower winrate compared to Swain, when facing one another, Amumu also has a much lower learning curve that makes him a less complex champ to learn and master. You should expect to face a difficult match when picking Amumu into Swain.
Moreover, Amumu has a lot of CC and other utility, 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 a single best champion in League of Legends, in Amumu 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 late stage team fights.
Amumu is a trash counter to Swain. Focus your gameplay on keeping up your CS and clearing objectives. If you are able to do that, you should do very well as Amumu against Swain.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Amumu 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 tips shown above, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Amumu on average picks up a lot less CS as Swain. Champions who typically don't earn many minion kills usualy don't have to have much CS to be effective, such as support champions. They 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, usually have to have many items to be effective. In either situation, try to surpass the values displayed on this page to do well.
The most crucial items to prioritize in your Amumu versus Swain build include Spirit Visage, Thornmail, and Jak'Sho, The Protean. When Amumu combined at least these three pieces in his build, he did much better when facing Swain than with most other common builds. In fact, Amumu had an average winrate of 46.9% battling Swain with this build.
To have the highest likelihood of crushing Swain as Amumu, you should equip the Aftershock, Font of Life, Bone Plating, Unflinching, Cheap Shot, and Ultimate Hunter runes from the Resolve and Domination rune sets. Out of all the runes players used for Amumu vs Swain fights, this combo of runes yielded the best win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 46.9% win rate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to beat Swain as Amumu are presented for all skill levels combined. If you would like to narrow the stats and builds to a particular rank, you should use the selection menu located earlier in the counter matchup guide.