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 emphasize several strategic Renata Glasc against Swain counter statistics that can help us grasp the distinctions between the two. As an example, Renata Glasc’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Swain’s ratio of NaN, indicating that Renata Glasc may be more central to their team's team fighting capacity than Swain. This observation is largely a result of the differences in assists.
Renata Glasc often has a significantly smaller longest killing spree than their enemy does. Commonly, they takes less damage than Swain. This typically indicates differing health capacities, yet it can also show that the one champion has less mobility and thus is unable to flee from further harm when engaged or poked.
Both League champions are great champions. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Renata Glasc usually loses when trying to fight Swain, with a 46.6% win rate. Thus, Renata Glasc makes a poor counter to Swain.
While Renata Glasc does have a lower winrate than Swain, when they face off with one another, Renata Glasc also has a greater level of difficulty that makes them a more time consuming character to learn and master. You should expect to face a difficult match when picking Renata Glasc into Swainas their relative depth means you may not be able to unleash their full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Additionally, Renata Glasc also has some amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Swain. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when fighting champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion overall in League of Legends, in Renata Glasc vs Swain matchups, Swain is the better champ with a much lower win rate, similar champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during team fights.
Renata Glasc is a bad counter for Swain. You will do well by focussing your actions on increasing your CS and clearing objectives. If you are able to do that, you should do very well as Renata Glasc against Swain.
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Renata Glasc to counter Swain during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to gather a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and tips shown above, you will increase your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Renata Glasc on average accumulates a lot less CS relative to Swain. Champs who on average don't earn many minion kills typically don't have to have 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, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, often need several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the values reported here to do well.
The most important items to prioritize in your Renata Glasc versus Swain build consist of Redemption, Ardent Censer, and Dream Maker. When Renata Glasc included at least these three items in their build, they performed much better vs. Swain than with many other common builds. In fact, Renata Glasc had an average win rate of 46.6% when playing against Swain with this counter build.
To have the best likelihood of beating Swain as Renata Glasc, Renata Glasc players should use the Guardian, Shield Bash, Bone Plating, Unflinching, Relentless Hunter, and Zombie Ward runes from the Resolve and Domination rune sets. Of all the rune sets players picked for Renata Glasc vs Swain clashes, this mix of runes yielded the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 46.6% winrate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to beat Swain as Renata Glasc are given for all ranked divisions combined. To filter the statistics and builds to an individual player tier, you should use the selection menu earlier on the page.