Jhin vs Swain
How to Beat Swain as Jhin
based on 15,728 Jhin vs Swain matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Jhin vs Swain Matchup Summary
Best Jhin vs Swain Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Swain as Jhin
Tips for Playing as Jhin against Swain
Your ultimate deals significantly less damage to enemies with full health. Look to pick off weakened targets as they run away.
Deadly Flourish has incredible range. When approaching a fight be sure to look ahead for enemies that could be rooted.
You can still cast your spells while reloading. Use them to fill the down time.
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.
Jhin vs Swain Counter Stats
How to Counter Swain with Jhin in LoL
The stats shown on this page show several critical Jhin against Swain matchup statistics that may help you explain the differences and similarities between this set of champions. As an example, Jhin’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Swain’s ratio of NaN, highlighting that Jhin may be more central to his team's team fighting capability than Swain. This observation is in large part fueled by the difference in kills.
Jhin typically has a slightly larger longest kill spree than his foe does. Typically, he receives less damage than Swain. This often reflects different amounts of tankyness; however, it can also hint that the one champ has less mobility and thus is not able to flee from additional harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Jhin and Swain
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Who is Better, Jhin or Swain?
Both League of Legends champs are great champions. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Jhin usually fairs equally well when trying to fight Swain, with a 50.2% win rate. Thus, Jhin makes an ok counter to Swain.
While Jhin does have a higher winrate compared to Swain, when on opposite teams, Jhin also has a lower difficulty level that makes him a less challenging character to learn and master. You should be careful when picking Jhin into Swain.
Moreover, Jhin has some amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Swain. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when fighting champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion in League of Legends, in Jhin vs Swain matchups, Jhin is the better champion with a similar win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during teamfights.
Jhin is a decent counter to Swain. Focus your tactics on maximizing your CS and taking out objectives. If you are able to do that, you should do very well as Jhin against Swain.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Jhin to counter Swain during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to gather a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you listen to the build and suggestions shown here, you will increase your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Jhin on average racks up more CS as Swain. Champions who on average don't earn many minion kills usualy don't have to have much CS to be valuable teammates, such as sup champs. These kinds of champions are able to scale well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually require several high cost items to be effective. In either situation, try to surpass the values displayed on this page to do well.
The ideal items to focus on in your Jhin versus Swain build include Guardian Angel, Rapid Firecannon, and Youmuu's Ghostblade. When Jhin used at least these three pieces in his build, he did significantly better vs Swain than with many other common item sets. In fact, Jhin boasted an average win rate of 50.2% battling Swain with this build.
To have the highest probability of annihilating Swain as Jhin, Jhin players should take the Dark Harvest, Taste of Blood, Eyeball Collection, Treasure Hunter, Presence of Mind, and Coup de Grace runes from the Domination and Precision rune sets. Of all the runes that we analyzed for Jhin vs Swain fights, this composite of runes yielded the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 50.2% win rate overall.
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