Swain vs Draven
How to Beat Draven as Swain
based on 4,572 Swain vs Draven matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Swain vs Draven Matchup Summary
Best Swain vs Draven Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Draven as Swain
Tips for Playing as Swain against Draven
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 Draven
Disrupt Draven with the goal of making him drop his axes. If you do, his power drops dramatically.
Launch skillshots toward the landing position of Draven's Spinning Axes.
Swain vs Draven Counter Stats
How to Counter Draven with Swain in LoL
The stat comparisons shown here underscore some strategic Swain vs. Draven counter statistics that may help you figure out the differences between the two. For instance, Swain’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Draven’s KDA ratio of NaN, showing that Swain may be more central to his team's team fighting capacity than Draven. This observation is in large part fueled by the differences in assists.
Swain normally has a slightly smaller longest kill spree than his counter does. Commonly, he receives more damage than Draven. This often reflects differing health capacities, but it can also imply that the champion with higher health has less agility and thus is unable to kite away from additional harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Swain and Draven
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Who is Better, Swain or Draven?
Both League champions are great champions. Both champs have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Swain usually wins when taking on Draven, with a 52.2% win rate. Therefore, Swain makes a good counter to Draven.
While Swain does have a higher winrate than Draven, when on opposite teams, Swain also has a greater difficulty level that makes him a more difficult character to learn. You should be be fine when picking Swain into Dravenas his relative depth means you may not be able to unleash his full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Additionally, Swain has some amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Draven. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when facing champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion overall in League of Legends, in Swain vs Draven matchups, Swain is the better champion with a noticably higher win rate, similar champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during team fights.
Swain is a good counter to Draven. Make sure you focus your strategy on maximizing your CS and clearing objectives. If you are able to do that, you should hold your own as Swain against Draven.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Swain to counter Draven 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 mind the build and tips displayed here, you will grow your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Swain typically picks up less CS compared to Draven. Champions who on average don't take many minion kills usualy don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as supports. These kinds of champions are able to scale well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically have to have a lot of items to be effective. In either situation, try to surpass the values shown on this page to do well.
The top items to use in your Swain versus Draven build include Rylai's Crystal Scepter, Riftmaker, and Liandry's Torment. When Swain incorporated at least these three pieces in his build, he performed a lot better when facing Draven than with many other commonly used counter builds. In fact, Swain had an average win rate of 52.2% when playing against Draven with this build.
To have the best likelihood of beating Draven as Swain, Swain players should take the Summon Aery, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Scorch, Conditioning, and Overgrowth runes from the Sorcery and Resolve rune sets. Of all the rune sets players chose for Swain vs Draven matchups, this mixture of runes yielded the highest win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 52.2% winrate overall.
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