Garen vs Swain
How to Beat Swain as Garen
based on 5,122 Garen vs Swain matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Garen vs Swain Matchup Summary
Best Garen vs Swain Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Swain as Garen
Tips for Playing as Garen against Swain
Garen is only constrained by cooldowns, making items such as Black Cleaver very effective for him.
Garen's regeneration greatly increases if he can avoid receiving damage for several seconds.
Judgment deals maximum damage when only hitting a single target. For effective trading, try to position such that only the enemy champion is hit.
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.
Garen vs Swain Counter Stats
How to Counter Swain with Garen in LoL
The stat comparisons shown here emphasize some critical Garen versus Swain matchup stats that may help us grasp the differences between this pair of champions. For instance, Garen’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Swain’s KDA ratio of NaN, indicating that Garen may be more central to his team's team fighting capability than Swain..
Garen typically has a similar longest kill spree as his opponent does. Typically, he receives a similar amount of damage to Swain. This often reflects differing health capacities, yet it can also illustrate that the champ with more HP has less mobility and thus is unable to flee from further harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Garen and Swain
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Who is Better, Garen or Swain?
Both LoL champs are great champions. Both champs have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Garen usually loses when playing against Swain, with a 47.1% win rate. As a result, Garen makes a bad counter to Swain.
While Garen does have a lower winrate than Swain, when facing one another, Garen also has a lower level of difficulty that makes him a less complex character to pick up and master. You should be very concerned when picking Garen into Swain.
Moreover, Garen also has almost no amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Swain. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when fighting champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion in League of Legends, in Garen vs Swain matchups, Swain is the better champion with a lower win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during teamfights.
Garen is a bad counter to Swain. Make sure you focus your actions on increasing your gold and cs and taking out objectives. If you can do that, you should do very well as Garen against Swain.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Garen 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 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.
Garen usually racks up more CS as Swain. Champions who typically don't get many minion kills often don't need much CS to be effective, such as supports. 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, typically need several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to exceed the values displayed on this page to do well.
The top items to prioritize in your Garen versus Swain build consist of Trinity Force, Sundered Sky, and Stridebreaker. When Garen bought at least these three pieces in his build, he performed significantly better when facing Swain than with most other common counter builds. In fact, Garen boasted an average win rate of 47.1% when playing against Swain with these items in his kit.
To have the best chance of vanquishing Swain as Garen, you should use the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Tenacity, Last Stand, Nimbus Cloak, and Celerity runes from the Precision and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations we have analyed for Garen vs Swain counter picks, this composite of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 47.1% win rate overall.
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