Hecarim vs Swain
How to Beat Swain as Hecarim
based on 3,538 Hecarim vs Swain matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Hecarim vs Swain Matchup Summary
Best Hecarim vs Swain Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Swain as Hecarim
Tips for Playing as Hecarim against Swain
Devastating Charge deals more damage based on the distance traveled. Try using Onslaught of Shadows or Summoner Spells such as Ghost or Flash to maximize this damage.
Spirit of Dread restores Health when nearby enemies take damage, including damage dealt by allies. Cast this during a large fight to maximize Hecarim's survivability.
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.
Hecarim vs Swain Counter Stats
How to Counter Swain with Hecarim in LoL
The stat comparisons provided here show several significant Hecarim versus Swain matchup stats that may help you interpret the distinctions between the pair. As an example, Hecarim’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Swain’s KDA ratio of NaN, indicating that Hecarim may be more central to his team's team fighting capacity than Swain..
Hecarim typically has a slightly larger longest kill spree than his opponent does. Commonly, he takes more damage than Swain. This typically indicates different amounts of tankyness; however, it can also imply that the one champ has less mobility and thus is unable to escape further damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Hecarim and Swain
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Who is Better, Hecarim or Swain?
Both League champions are great. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Hecarim usually loses when trying to fight Swain, with a 46.1% win rate. Thus, Hecarim makes a bad counter for Swain.
While Hecarim does have a lower win rate compared to Swain, when facing one another, Hecarim also has a lower level of difficulty that makes him a less time consuming champion to develop with. You should be very concerned when picking Hecarim into Swain.
Additionally, Hecarim also has only a small amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Swain. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when facing champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion in League of Legends, in Hecarim 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 teammates during late stage team fights.
Hecarim is a trash counter for Swain. You will do well by focussing your actions on keeping up your gold income and taking out objectives. If you do that, you should do very well as Hecarim against Swain.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Hecarim in order to counter Swain during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to pick up a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you mind the build and stats presented here, you should increase your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Hecarim often gets a lot less CS compared to Swain. Champs who on average don't earn much CS often don't need much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. These kinds of champions 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 have to have many items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the values displayed on this page to do well.
The most crucial items to have in your Hecarim versus Swain build include Sterak's Gage, Trinity Force, and Spear of Shojin. When Hecarim incorporated at least these three items in his build, he did significantly better when fighting Swain than with most other common item sets. In fact, Hecarim boasted an average winrate of 46.1% when playing against Swain with this counter build.
To have the highest probability of vanquishing Swain as Hecarim, you should equip the Phase Rush, Nimbus Cloak, Celerity, Waterwalking, Eyeball Collection, and Treasure Hunter runes from the Sorcery and Domination rune sets. Of all the rune builds players picked for Hecarim vs Swain matchups, this mix of runes yielded the best win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 46.1% winrate overall.
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