Swain vs LeBlanc
How to Beat LeBlanc as Swain
based on 2,041 Swain vs LeBlanc matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Swain vs LeBlanc Matchup Summary
Best Swain vs LeBlanc Counter Build
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Guide to Countering LeBlanc as Swain
Tips for Playing as Swain against LeBlanc
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 LeBlanc
LeBlanc's ultimate can create fake LeBlancs during her spellcast or, rarely, at a distant position.
The fake LeBlanc created at a distance will always run at the nearest Champion, cast a harmless spell, then immediately disappear.
Attacking LeBlanc first avoids most of her tricks, especially if she's recently used her dash, Distortion.
Stunning or silencing LeBlanc will prevent her from activating the return part of Distortion.
Swain vs LeBlanc Counter Stats
How to Counter LeBlanc with Swain in LoL
The stats shown here feature several strategic Swain vs. LeBlanc counter stats that can help us realize the distinctions between the two. As an example, Swain’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than LeBlanc’s ratio of NaN, showing that Swain may be more central to his team's team fighting capability than LeBlanc..
Swain often has a slightly smaller longest killing spree than his opponent does. On average, he takes more damage than LeBlanc. This often reflects differing health capacities, yet it can also show that the champion with higher HP has less agility and thus is not able to kite away from additional harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Swain and LeBlanc
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Who is Better, Swain or LeBlanc?
Both LoL champs are great. Both have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Swain usually wins when trying to fight LeBlanc, with a 53.7% win rate. Therefore, Swain makes a great counter for LeBlanc.
While Swain does have a higher winrate than LeBlanc, when they face off with one another, Swain also has a lower difficulty level that makes him a less time consuming champ to learn. You should be be fine when picking Swain into LeBlancas his relative depth means that you may not be able to reach his full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Moreover, Swain has some amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to LeBlanc. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when facing champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion overall in League of Legends, in Swain vs LeBlanc matchups, Swain is the better champion with a noticably higher win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during teamfights.
Swain is a great counter to LeBlanc. You will do well by focussing your tactics on maximizing your gold income and destroying objectives. If you are able to do that, you should do very well as Swain against LeBlanc.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Swain in order to counter LeBlanc during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and suggestions displayed here, you should grow your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Swain most often accumulates a similar amount of CS relative to LeBlanc. Champions who typically don't get much CS often don't need much CS to be effective, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are able to scale properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually have to have many items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the numbers shown here to do well.
The most important items to prioritize in your Swain versus LeBlanc build include Rylai's Crystal Scepter, Malignance, and Zhonya's Hourglass. When Swain included at least these three items in his build, he performed much better vs. LeBlanc than with most other common item sets. In fact, Swain had an average win rate of 53.7% battling LeBlanc with these items in his kit.
To have the greatest probability of vanquishing LeBlanc 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 rune builds that we analyzed for Swain vs LeBlanc matchups, this composite of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 53.7% winrate overall.
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