Swain vs Braum
How to Beat Braum as Swain
based on 1,697 Swain vs Braum matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Swain vs Braum Matchup Summary
Best Swain vs Braum Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Braum as Swain
Tips for Playing as Swain against Braum
While laning, try to use Death's Hand's piercing damage to damage opponents from a safe distance.
Vision of Empire is quite difficult to land on its own, look for skirmishes around the map where enemies may be distracted or crowd controlled so you can land it more easily.
If you're having trouble rooting an enemy with Nevermove, try throwing it at opponents when they are near their minions so the explosion surprises them.
Demonic Ascension may make Swain very hard to kill but he's pretty easy to get away from. Try building items that can slow opponents to keep them in range if their mobility is overwhelming.
Advice to Win Against Braum
Unbreakable gives Braum extremely strong directional defense, either wait until it is down or outposition the ability.
Braum must land Winter's Bite or a basic attack to start Concussive Blows. If you get marked, exit combat range before getting hit 3 more times to avoid the stun.
Braum's ultimate has a long cast time, use that extra time to dodge. Walking over the frozen ground left behind will slow you, position so that you don't need to cross it.
Swain vs Braum Counter Stats
How to Counter Braum with Swain in LoL
The stat comparisons provided here show some valuable Swain vs. Braum counter statistics that may help you understand the differences and similarities between the pair. Swain’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Braum’s ratio of NaN, highlighting that Swain may be more central to his team's team fighting potential than Braum. This observation is largely caused by the difference in kills.
Swain typically has a much larger longest killing spree than his foe does. Commonly, he receives more damage than Braum. This often reflects differing health capacities, but it can also illustrate that the champ with higher health has less mobility and thus is unable to flee from additional harm when engaged or poked.
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Who is Better, Swain or Braum?
Both League champions are great. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Swain usually wins when facing off against Braum, with a 52.9% win rate. Therefore, Swain makes a good counter to Braum.
While Swain does have a higher winrate compared to Braum, when facing one another, Swain also has a much greater difficulty level that makes him a more complex champion to learn and master. You don't need to be too worried when picking Swain into Braumas his relative depth means you may not be able to reach his full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Furthermore, Swain has some amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Braum. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when fighting champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Swain vs Braum matchups, Swain is the better champ with a noticably higher win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during team fights.
Swain is a good counter to Braum. You will do well by focussing your play on maximizing your gold income and taking out objectives. If you can do that, you should do very well as Swain against Braum.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Swain in order to counter Braum during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you mind the build and suggestions presented above, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Swain on average accumulates much more CS compared to Braum. Champions who on average don't acquire many minion kills often don't need much CS to be effective, such as supports. They are able to scale well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually have to have several high cost items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the values displayed here to do well.
The best items to use in your Swain versus Braum build include Rylai's Crystal Scepter, Malignance, and Zhonya's Hourglass. When Swain combined at least these three pieces in his build, he did a lot better when facing Braum than with many other commonly used builds. In fact, Swain had an average win rate of 52.9% when playing against Braum with this build.
To have the highest likelihood of crushing Braum as Swain, you should take the Electrocute, Cheap Shot, Eyeball Collection, Ultimate Hunter, Coup de Grace, and Presence of Mind runes from the Domination and Precision rune sets. Of all the rune sets players used for Swain vs Braum face-offs, this sequence of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 52.9% win rate overall.
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