Swain vs Garen
How to Beat Garen as Swain
based on 5,122 Swain vs Garen matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Swain vs Garen Matchup Summary
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Guide to Countering Garen as Swain
Tips for Playing as Swain against Garen
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 Garen
Be careful about attacking Garen in brush. It often will lead to taking full damage from Judgment.
Stack armor items to lower the large amount of physical damage that Garen deals out.
Judgment deals maximum damage when only hitting a single target. If getting out of its radius isn't possible, move through allied minions to reduce damage taken.
Try to run away from Garen as your health gets lower, as he can execute you quickly with Demacian Justice.
Swain vs Garen Counter Stats
How to Counter Garen with Swain in LoL
The stat comparisons shown on this page feature several strategic Swain against Garen matchup stats that may help us distinguish the distinctions between the pair. Swain’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Garen’s KDA ratio of NaN, indicating that Swain may be more central to his team's team fighting effectiveness than Garen. This observation is in large part caused by the differences in assists.
Swain often has a similar longest killing spree as his foe does. Typically, he takes a similar amount of damage to Garen. This commonly reflects different amounts of tankyness, but it can also illustrate that the one champion has less mobility and thus is not able to kite away from further harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Swain and Garen
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Who is Better, Swain or Garen?
Both LoL champions are great. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Swain usually wins when facing off against Garen, with a 52.9% win rate. Thus, Swain makes a good counter to Garen.
While Swain does have a higher win rate than Garen, when they face off with one another, Swain also has a much greater learning curve that makes him a more time consuming champ to learn. You should be be fine when picking Swain into Garenas his relative depth means you may not be able to unleash his full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Additionally, Swain also has some amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Garen. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when trying to counter champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Swain vs Garen 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 team members during late stage team fights.
Swain is an above average counter for Garen. Make sure you focus your tactics on maximizing your CS and destroying objectives. If you are able to do that, you should hold your own as Swain against Garen.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Swain to counter Garen during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to gather a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and suggestions displayed here, you should increase your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Swain most often picks up less CS compared to Garen. Champs who typically don't take much CS often don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as supports. They are able to scale properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, often require a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to surpass the numbers shown on this page to do well.
The most important items to use in your Swain versus Garen build include Rylai's Crystal Scepter, Malignance, and Solstice Sleigh. When Swain combined at least these three pieces in his build, he performed significantly better when facing Garen than with many other typical counter builds. In fact, Swain had an average win rate of 52.9% when playing against Garen with this counter build.
To have the greatest chance of defeating Garen as Swain, you should use 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 chose for Swain vs Garen matchups, this sequence of runes yielded the highest win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 52.9% win rate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to beat Garen as Swain are presented for every ranked division. To narrow the statistics and builds to a particular division, you can use the selection menu earlier in the counter matchup guide.