Swain vs Lee Sin
How to Beat Lee Sin as Swain
based on 4,041 Swain vs Lee Sin matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Swain vs Lee Sin Matchup Summary
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Guide to Countering Lee Sin as Swain
Tips for Playing as Swain against Lee Sin
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 Lee Sin
Lee Sin relies heavily on following up with his abilities. Use disables to prevent him from chaining together his abilities and attacks.
Stay spread out to minimize the impact of Lee Sin's ultimate, Dragon's Rage.
Lee Sin has powerful tools to combat physical damage in Iron Will and Cripple but he is still vulnerable to magic damage.
Swain vs Lee Sin Counter Stats
How to Counter Lee Sin with Swain in LoL
The stats shown here emphasize several important Swain against Lee Sin counter statistics that can help you figure out the differences between the pair. As an example, Swain’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Lee Sin’s KDA ratio of NaN, indicating that Swain may be more central to his team's team fighting capability than Lee Sin..
Swain typically has a slightly smaller longest kill spree than his foe does. Typically, he takes less damage than Lee Sin. This commonly reflects differing health capacities, but it can also show that the one champion has less agility and thus is unable to kite away from additional damage when poked or engaged.
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Who is Better, Swain or Lee Sin?
Both League of Legends champions are great. Both champs have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Swain usually wins when facing off against Lee Sin, with a 54.3% win rate. As a result, Swain makes a great counter for Lee Sin.
While Swain does have a much higher win rate compared to Lee Sin, when on opposite teams, Swain also has a greater learning curve that makes him a more challenging champion to develop with. You don't need to be too worried when picking Swain into Lee Sinas his relative depth means that you may not be able to unleash his full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Furthermore, Swain has some amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Lee Sin. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when facing champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion overall in League of Legends, in Swain vs Lee Sin matchups, Swain is the better champion with a noticably higher win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during teamfights.
Swain is a great counter for Lee Sin. You will do well by focussing your tactics on increasing your gold income and clearing objectives. If you can do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Swain against Lee Sin.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Swain in order to counter Lee Sin during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to learn a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you mind the build and stats displayed here, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Swain often racks up more CS as Lee Sin. Champions who typically don't earn many minion kills often don't need much CS to be effective, such as supports. They 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, typically have to have several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the numbers displayed on this page to do well.
The top items to prioritize in your Swain versus Lee Sin build include Rylai's Crystal Scepter, Malignance, and Riftmaker. When Swain incorporated at least these three items in his build, he performed a lot better against Lee Sin than with many other typical builds. In fact, Swain had an average winrate of 54.3% when countering Lee Sin with these items in his kit.
To have the best chance of defeating Lee Sin as Swain, you should use the Electrocute, Cheap Shot, Eyeball Collection, Ultimate Hunter, Cosmic Insight, and Triple Tonic runes from the Domination and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations players chose for Swain vs Lee Sin counterpicks, this combo of runes yielded the highest win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 54.3% win rate overall.
By default, tips, statistics, and builds on how to beat Lee Sin as Swain are presented for all ranked divisions combined. If you want to scope the stats and builds to a specific skill level, you can use the selection menu earlier in the counter matchup guide.