Swain vs Gwen
How to Beat Gwen as Swain
based on 3,094 Swain vs Gwen matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Swain vs Gwen Matchup Summary
Best Swain vs Gwen Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Gwen as Swain
Tips for Playing as Swain against Gwen
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 Gwen
Gwen must hit something to recast her Ultimate, try to evade her between casts.
Gwen needs to attack a few times to set up her damage, so try to get the jump on her.
Gwen's Hallowed Mist shroud will only follow her once, after that it will dissipate when she leaves.
Swain vs Gwen Counter Stats
How to Counter Gwen with Swain in LoL
The stat comparisons provided here underscore several critical Swain vs. Gwen counter statistics that can help us distinguish the differences between this set of champions. As an example, Swain’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Gwen’s KDA ratio of NaN, indicating that Swain may be more central to his team's team fighting effectiveness than Gwen. This observation is in large part fueled by the differences in assists.
Swain typically has a slightly smaller longest killing spree than his matchup does. Commonly, he takes a similar amount of damage to Gwen. This often reflects differing health capacities, yet it can also indicate that the champion with increased HP has less agility and thus is not able to flee from further damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Swain and Gwen
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Who is Better, Swain or Gwen?
Both LoL champs are great champions. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Swain usually fairs equally well when taking on Gwen, with a 50.4% win rate. Thus, Swain makes an ok counter to Gwen.
While Swain does have a higher win rate than Gwen, when they face off with one another, Swain also has a much greater difficulty level that makes him a more difficult champ to develop with. You should be careful when picking Swain into Gwenas 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 Gwen. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when fighting champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion in League of Legends, in Swain vs Gwen matchups, Swain is the better champion with a similar win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during team fights.
Swain is a decent counter to Gwen. Make sure you focus your actions on maximizing your gold income and taking out objectives. If you can do that, you should hold your own as Swain against Gwen.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Swain to counter Gwen during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to gather a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you mind the build and tips displayed here, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Swain usually racks up less CS compared to Gwen. Champs who on average don't take many minion kills typically don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, often have to have a lot of items to be effective. In either situation, try to surpass the numbers displayed on this page to do well.
The most important items to focus on in your Swain versus Gwen build include Rylai's Crystal Scepter, Zhonya's Hourglass, and Liandry's Torment. When Swain included at least these three pieces in his build, he performed significantly better versus Gwen than with many other common counter builds. In fact, Swain boasted an average winrate of 50.4% battling Gwen with this build.
To have the highest probability of beating Gwen as Swain, Swain players 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 runes players picked for Swain vs Gwen counter picks, this mixture of runes yielded the best win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 50.4% win rate overall.
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