Swain vs Janna
How to Beat Janna as Swain
based on 3,320 Swain vs Janna matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Swain vs Janna Matchup Summary
Best Swain vs Janna Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Janna as Swain
Tips for Playing as Swain against Janna
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 Janna
Janna's at her strongest when buffing another ally. If you can harass her ally, it will weaken her ability to fight you.
Save an interrupt ability for when Janna uses her ultimate.
Listen for the charge up sound on Howling Gale in case Janna is trying to hit you with it from off screen or from brush.
Swain vs Janna Counter Stats
How to Counter Janna with Swain in LoL
The stats provided here underscore some influential Swain versus Janna counter stats that can help us understand the differences between these two champions. As an example, Swain’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Janna’s KDA ratio of NaN, indicating that Swain may be more central to his team's team fighting capability than Janna. This observation is in large part fueled by the difference in kills.
Swain typically has a slightly larger longest kill spree than his foe does. Commonly, he takes more damage than Janna. This often reflects differing health capacities, yet it can also illustrate that the one champion has less agility and thus is not able to escape further harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Swain and Janna
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Who is Better, Swain or Janna?
Both League of Legends champions are great. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Swain usually loses when trying to fight Janna, with a 48.1% win rate. Therefore, Swain makes a poor counter to Janna.
While Swain does have a lower win rate compared to Janna, when on opposite teams, Swain also has a greater learning curve that makes him a more difficult champion to learn and master. You still need to be cautious when picking Swain into Jannaas 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 Janna. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when fighting champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion overall in League of Legends, in Swain vs Janna matchups, Janna is the better champ with a lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during late stage team fights.
Swain is a somewhat poor counter to Janna. You will do well by focussing your play on maximizing your gold income and taking out objectives. If you can do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Swain against Janna.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Swain in order to counter Janna during both the lane 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 mind the build and tips displayed above, you will grow your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Swain most often gets much more CS as Janna. Champs who typically don't take many minion kills often don't need much CS to be effective, such as sup champs. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically require a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the values shown on this page to do well.
The most important items to have in your Swain versus Janna build include Rylai's Crystal Scepter, Malignance, and Zhonya's Hourglass. When Swain bought at least these three pieces in his build, he performed significantly better vs Janna than with most other typical counter builds. In fact, Swain boasted an average winrate of 48.1% when playing against Janna with these items in his kit.
To have the best probability of defeating Janna 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 sets players picked for Swain vs Janna counterpicks, this mixture of runes yielded the highest win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 48.1% winrate overall.
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