Swain vs Kog'Maw
How to Beat Kog'Maw as Swain
based on 1,180 Swain vs Kog'Maw matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Swain vs Kog'Maw Matchup Summary
Best Swain vs Kog'Maw Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Kog'Maw as Swain
Tips for Playing as Swain against Kog'Maw
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 Kog'Maw
The range on Living Artillery increases each rank.
Run away from Kog'Maw after he dies!!!!
Kog'Maw doesn't have a good escape ability, so he is especially prone to ganks.
Bio-Arcane Barrage allows Kog'Maw to kill Baron Nashor extremely early. It can be valuable to ward Nashor when Kog'Maw completes his Blade of the Ruined King.
Swain vs Kog'Maw Counter Stats
How to Counter Kog'Maw with Swain in LoL
The stat comparisons provided here highlight several important Swain vs. Kog'Maw matchup statistics that can help you understand the distinctions between the two. Swain’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Kog'Maw’s KDA ratio of NaN, highlighting that Swain may be more central to his team's team fighting capability than Kog'Maw..
Swain normally has a slightly smaller longest kill spree than his enemy does. Typically, he receives more damage than Kog'Maw. This commonly reflects differing health capacities; however, it can also indicate that the champ with more health has less agility and thus is not able to escape further harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Swain and Kog'Maw
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Who is Better, Swain or Kog'Maw?
Both League champions are great champions. Both champs have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Swain usually wins when trying to fight Kog'Maw, with a 51.1% win rate. Therefore, Swain makes a good counter for Kog'Maw.
While Swain does have a higher win rate than Kog'Maw, when facing one another, Swain also has a greater difficulty level that makes him a more complex champ to learn. You should be careful when picking Swain into Kog'Mawas his relative depth means that you may not be able to unleash his full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Furthermore, Swain has some amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Kog'Maw. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when fighting champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion in League of Legends, in Swain vs Kog'Maw matchups, Swain is the better champion with a higher win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during teamfights.
Swain is a decent counter for Kog'Maw. Make sure you focus your play on keeping up your gold and cs and taking out objectives. If you can do that, you should hold your own as Swain against Kog'Maw.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Swain in order to counter Kog'Maw during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to pick up a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you mind the build and suggestions shown here, you should increase your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Swain often racks up less CS relative to Kog'Maw. Champions who on average don't acquire many minion kills often don't need much CS to be effective, such as support champions. They are capable of scaling well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually require many items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the values shown here to do well.
The most important items to focus on in your Swain versus Kog'Maw build consist of Rylai's Crystal Scepter, Malignance, and Liandry's Torment. When Swain bought at least these three pieces in his build, he performed much better countering Kog'Maw than with many other common counter builds. In fact, Swain had an average win rate of 51.1% when playing against Kog'Maw with this build.
To have the highest chance of coming out on top against Kog'Maw as Swain, you should equip the Conqueror, Presence of Mind, Legend: Tenacity, Last Stand, Conditioning, and Overgrowth runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Of all the runes we have analyed for Swain vs Kog'Maw fights, this sequence of runes yielded the best win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 51.1% winrate overall.
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