Grand Challenge allows Fiora to take down even the most durable opponents and then recover if successful, so do not hesitate to attack the enemy's front line.
Thanks to Duelist's Dance, Fiora excels at quick trades. Use the Move Speed boost from striking a Vital to escape unscathed or set up for the next one.
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.
The stats shown on this page clarify several influential Fiora versus Swain counter statistics that can help us interpret the differences between the two. Fiora’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Swain’s KDA ratio of NaN, showing that Fiora may be more central to her team's team fighting capability than Swain..
Fiora often has a similar longest kill spree as her counter does. Typically, she takes a similar amount of damage to Swain. This often reflects different amounts of tankyness, but it can also hint that the one champ has less agility and thus is not able to flee from additional damage when engaged or poked.
Both LoL champs are great champions. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Fiora usually fairs equally well when playing against Swain, with a 50.9% win rate. Thus, Fiora makes an ok counter to Swain.
While Fiora does have a higher winrate than Swain, when they face off with one another, Fiora also has a much lower difficulty level that makes her a less challenging champ to pick up and master. You still need to be cautious when picking Fiora into Swain.
Additionally, Fiora also has only a small amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Swain. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when trying to counter champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion in League of Legends, in Fiora vs Swain matchups, Fiora is the better champ with a similar win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during teamfights.
Fiora is a decent counter to Swain. You will do well by focussing your play on keeping up your CS and taking out objectives. If you do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Fiora against Swain.
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Fiora to counter Swain during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to learn a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you listen to the build and suggestions displayed above, you should grow your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Fiora often gets more CS as Swain. Champions who typically don't earn many minion kills typically don't require much CS to be effective, such as sup champs. They are able to scale well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually require a lot of items to be effective. In either situation, try to exceed the values displayed on this page to do well.
The most important items to have in your Fiora versus Swain build consist of Ravenous Hydra, Trinity Force, and Spear of Shojin. When Fiora combined at least these three pieces in her build, she performed much better against Swain than with many other commonly used builds. In fact, Fiora boasted an average winrate of 50.9% when countering Swain with this build.
To have the best probability of annihilating Swain as Fiora, you should equip the Conqueror, Presence of Mind, Legend: Alacrity, Last Stand, Bone Plating, and Unflinching runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Of all the runes we have analyed for Fiora vs Swain battles, this composite of runes resulted in the best win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 50.9% win rate overall.
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