Swain vs Irelia
How to Beat Irelia as Swain
based on 3,725 Swain vs Irelia matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Swain vs Irelia Matchup Summary
Best Swain vs Irelia Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Irelia as Swain
Tips for Playing as Swain against Irelia
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 Irelia
Pay attention to Ionian Fervor stacks and try to engage Irelia when it is down.
Minion waves greatly enhance Irelia's mobility, beware fighting her inside one.
Beware of wasting your high impact spells on Defiant Dance.
Swain vs Irelia Counter Stats
How to Counter Irelia with Swain in LoL
The stats shown here clarify some significant Swain against Irelia matchup stats that may help you figure out the distinctions between this set of champs. As an example, Swain’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Irelia’s KDA ratio of NaN, indicating that Swain may be more central to his team's team fighting capacity than Irelia. This observation is in large part fueled by the differences in assists.
Swain normally has a slightly smaller longest kill spree than his matchup does. Commonly, he takes a similar amount of damage to Irelia. This typically indicates different amounts of tankyness, but it can also indicate that the champion with higher HP has less agility and thus is not able to kite away from additional harm when engaged or poked.
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Who is Better, Swain or Irelia?
Both League champions are great champions. Both champs have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Swain usually wins when taking on Irelia, with a 51.0% win rate. Therefore, Swain makes a good counter for Irelia.
While Swain does have a higher win rate than Irelia, when they face off with one another, Swain also has a much greater level of difficulty that makes him a more time consuming champ to learn. You should be careful when picking Swain into Ireliaas his relative depth means you may not be able to unleash his full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Moreover, Swain has some amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Irelia. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, 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 Irelia matchups, Swain is the better champion with a similar win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during late stage team fights.
Swain is a decent counter to Irelia. Focus your actions on maximizing your gold income and clearing objectives. If you can do that, you should hold your own as Swain against Irelia.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Swain in order to counter Irelia 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 shown here, you will increase your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Swain typically gets less CS as Irelia. Champs who typically don't get much CS usualy don't have to have much CS to be effective, such as supports. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically need several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to exceed the values shown on this page to do well.
The most important items to focus on in your Swain versus Irelia build include Rylai's Crystal Scepter, Malignance, and Riftmaker. When Swain included at least these three items in his build, he performed a lot better vs Irelia than with many other typical item sets. In fact, Swain boasted an average win rate of 51.0% when countering Irelia with these items in his kit.
To have the greatest chance of beating Irelia as Swain, you should equip the Electrocute, Cheap Shot, Eyeball Collection, Ultimate Hunter, Cosmic Insight, and Triple Tonic runes from the Domination and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the rune builds players picked for Swain vs Irelia fights, this mixture of runes yielded the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 51.0% winrate overall.
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