Swain vs Olaf
How to Beat Olaf as Swain
based on 1,247 Swain vs Olaf matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Swain vs Olaf Matchup Summary
Best Swain vs Olaf Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Olaf as Swain
Tips for Playing as Swain against Olaf
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 Olaf
Olaf has reduced defenses from damage during Ragnarok, despite being immune to disables. If you can't escape from Olaf during Ragnarok, try focusing your damage on him with your teammates.
Olaf becomes more dangerous the lower life he is. Save your disables to finish him off.
Preventing Olaf from reaching his axe will minimize the amount of harassment he can cause in the laning phase.
Swain vs Olaf Counter Stats
How to Counter Olaf with Swain in LoL
The stats shown on this page emphasize some valuable Swain vs. Olaf matchup statistics that may help you interpret the differences and similarities between this set of champions. For instance, Swain’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Olaf’s ratio of NaN, showing that Swain may be more central to his team's team fighting capability than Olaf. This observation is largely caused by the differences in assists.
Swain typically has a slightly smaller longest killing spree than his opponent does. Typically, he takes a similar amount of damage to Olaf. This often reflects differing health capacities; however, it can also show that the champion with increased health has less agility and thus is not able to escape additional damage when poked or engaged.
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Who is Better, Swain or Olaf?
Both League of Legends champs are great. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Swain usually wins when facing off against Olaf, with a 52.8% win rate. Thus, Swain makes a good counter for Olaf.
While Swain does have a higher winrate than Olaf, when on opposite teams, Swain also has a much greater learning curve that makes him a more time consuming champion to learn and master. You don't need to be too worried when picking Swain into Olafas his relative depth means that you may not be able to reach his full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Additionally, Swain has some amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Olaf. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when fighting champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion overall in League of Legends, in Swain vs Olaf matchups, Swain is the better champ with a noticably higher win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during teamfights.
Swain is an above average counter to Olaf. Make sure you focus your actions on maximizing your gold and cs and taking out objectives. If you are able to do that, you should hold your own as Swain against Olaf.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Swain to counter Olaf during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to learn a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you mind the build and tips displayed above, you should increase your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Swain on average accumulates less CS relative to Olaf. Champions who typically don't earn much CS typically don't have to have much CS to be effective, such as sup champs. These kinds of champions are able to scale well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, often have to have a lot of items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the values reported here to do well.
The ideal items to use in your Swain versus Olaf build consist of Rylai's Crystal Scepter, Malignance, and Liandry's Torment. When Swain included at least these three pieces in his build, he did much better versus Olaf than with most other common counter builds. In fact, Swain had an average winrate of 52.8% when countering Olaf with this build.
To have the highest chance of defeating Olaf as Swain, you should take 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 chose for Swain vs Olaf counter picks, this combo of runes yielded the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 52.8% winrate overall.
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