Singed vs Swain
How to Beat Swain as Singed
based on 3,443 Singed vs Swain matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Singed vs Swain Matchup Summary
Best Singed vs Swain Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Swain as Singed
Tips for Playing as Singed against Swain
Poison Trail is very effective at farming and harassing, allowing Singed to dominate the flow of whatever lane he's in.
Flinging enemies into your tower can deal heavy amounts of damage to them.
Use Insanity Potion to trick your opponents into chasing you through your Poison Trail.
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.
Singed vs Swain Counter Stats
How to Counter Swain with Singed in LoL
The stats provided here show some vital Singed versus Swain counter stats that can help you distinguish the distinctions between the two. As an example, Singed’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Swain’s ratio of NaN, showing that Singed may be more central to his team's team fighting capability than Swain..
Singed usually has a similar longest kill spree as his enemy does. Typically, he receives a similar amount of damage to Swain. This is usually reflective of different amounts of tankyness, but it can also show that the one champion has less agility and thus is not able to flee from additional damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Singed and Swain
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Who is Better, Singed or Swain?
Both LoL champions are great. Both champs have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Singed usually wins when playing against Swain, with a 52.0% win rate. As a result, Singed makes a good counter to Swain.
While Singed does have a higher winrate compared to Swain, when they face off with one another, Singed also has a lower difficulty level that makes him a less complex champion to pick up and master. You still need to be cautious when picking Singed into Swain.
Furthermore, Singed 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 for every situation in League of Legends, in Singed vs Swain matchups, Singed is the better champion with a higher win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during teamfights.
Singed is a decent counter to Swain. You will do well by focussing your strategy on keeping up your CS and destroying objectives. If you do that, you should do very well as Singed against Swain.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Singed in order to counter Swain during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and stats shown here, you will grow your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Singed often gets more CS relative to Swain. Champions who typically don't acquire much CS often don't require much CS to be effective, such as supports. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically have to have a lot of items to be effective. In either situation, try to exceed the values reported on this page to do well.
The most crucial items to prioritize in your Singed versus Swain build include Dead Man's Plate, Riftmaker, and Jak'Sho, The Protean. When Singed incorporated at least these three pieces in his build, he performed significantly better versus Swain than with many other common counter builds. In fact, Singed had an average win rate of 52.0% battling Swain with these items in his kit.
To have the greatest probability of vanquishing Swain as Singed, you should take the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Tenacity, Last Stand, Celerity, and Nimbus Cloak runes from the Precision and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the rune sets we have analyed for Singed vs Swain clashes, this composite of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 52.0% win rate overall.
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