Elise vs Swain
How to Beat Swain as Elise
based on 1,008 Elise vs Swain matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Elise vs Swain Matchup Summary
Best Elise vs Swain Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Swain as Elise
Tips for Playing as Elise against Swain
Spider Form is most effective at finishing off enemies with low health; Human Form's Neurotoxin does more damage to healthy foes.
Elise's Spider Form and Spider Form abilities do not cost mana and can be prioritized when you are trying to conserve mana.
When in Spider Form, Spiderlings will attack the target that Elise uses Venomous Bite on.
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.
Elise vs Swain Counter Stats
How to Counter Swain with Elise in LoL
The stat comparisons provided here emphasize several critical Elise vs. Swain matchup statistics that may help you understand the differences and similarities between the two. As an example, Elise’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Swain’s KDA ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Elise may be more central to her team's team fighting effectiveness than Swain..
Elise normally has a slightly larger longest kill spree than her foe does. On average, she takes a similar amount of damage to Swain. This often reflects differing health capacities; however, it can also indicate that the one champion has less mobility and thus is not able to flee from further harm when engaged or poked.
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Who is Better, Elise or Swain?
Both League champions are great. Both have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Elise usually loses when facing off against Swain, with a 48.2% win rate. As a result, Elise makes a poor counter to Swain.
While Elise does have a lower win rate than Swain, when on opposite teams, Elise also has a greater level of difficulty that makes her a more difficult champ to pick up and master. You should be careful when picking Elise into Swainas her relative depth means that you may not be able to reach her full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Furthermore, Elise has only a small amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Swain. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when facing champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion in League of Legends, in Elise vs Swain matchups, Swain is the better champ with a lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during team fights.
Elise is a somewhat poor counter for Swain. Make sure you focus your actions on maximizing your gold and cs and destroying objectives. If you do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Elise against Swain.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Elise to counter Swain during both the lane 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 stats presented above, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Elise often accumulates a lot less CS compared to Swain. Champions who on average don't acquire much CS usualy don't have to have 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, usually require a lot of items to be effective. In either situation, try to surpass the values reported on this page to do well.
The most crucial items to prioritize in your Elise versus Swain build include Lich Bane, Shadowflame, and Stormsurge. When Elise included at least these three items in her build, she did significantly better against Swain than with many other typical item sets. In fact, Elise boasted an average win rate of 48.2% when playing against Swain with these items in her kit.
To have the highest probability of annihilating Swain as Elise, you should take the Dark Harvest, Cheap Shot, Eyeball Collection, Relentless Hunter, Coup de Grace, and Triumph runes from the Domination and Precision rune sets. Out of all the rune builds players chose for Elise vs Swain LoL games, this composite of runes resulted in the best win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 48.2% win rate overall.
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