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.
Camille's shield only works against one damage type, so hit her when she's vulnerable to your damage.
The Hextech Ultimatum has a very short range to cast, so try to flash away from her before she gets close.
The stat comparisons provided here underscore some vital Swain against Camille matchup statistics that can help us appreciate the distinctions between the two. For instance, Swain’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Camille’s ratio of NaN, highlighting that Swain may be more central to his team's team fighting capability than Camille. This observation is in large part a result of the differences in assists.
Swain typically has a similar longest killing spree as his counter does. On average, he takes a similar amount of damage to Camille. This commonly reflects different amounts of tankyness, but it can also hint that the one champion has less mobility and thus is unable to kite away from further damage when poked or engaged.
Both League of Legends champs are great. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Swain usually wins when taking on Camille, with a 52.4% win rate. As a result, Swain makes a good counter to Camille.
While Swain does have a higher winrate compared to Camille, when they face off with one another, Swain also has a much greater learning curve that makes him a more difficult character to pick up and master. You don't need to be too worried when picking Swain into Camilleas his relative depth means that you may not be able to reach his full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Furthermore, Swain has some amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Camille. 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 overall in League of Legends, in Swain vs Camille 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 teamfights.
Swain is an above average counter to Camille. Focus your strategy on increasing your gold and cs and taking out objectives. If you do that, you should do very well as Swain against Camille.
To learn all of the intricacies of Swain in order to counter Camille during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to learn a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and stats displayed here, you should grow your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Swain typically racks up a similar amount of CS as Camille. Champions who typically don't acquire much CS typically don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as sup champs. They 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 require a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to exceed the values reported on this page to do well.
The best items to have in your Swain versus Camille build include Rylai's Crystal Scepter, Malignance, and Liandry's Torment. When Swain combined at least these three pieces in his build, he performed a lot better vs Camille than with most other typical item sets. In fact, Swain had an average winrate of 52.4% battling Camille with this counter build.
To have the best chance of defeating Camille as Swain, Swain players should equip the Conqueror, Presence of Mind, Legend: Tenacity, Last Stand, Conditioning, and Overgrowth runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations players used for Swain vs Camille fights, this combination of runes yielded the highest win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 52.4% winrate overall.
By default, tips, statistics, and builds on how to beat Camille as Swain are given for all skill levels, merged. If you would like to scope the statistics and builds to an individual division, you can use the selection menu earlier on the page.