Swain vs Sett
How to Beat Sett as Swain
based on 4,108 Swain vs Sett matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Swain vs Sett Matchup Summary
Best Swain vs Sett Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Sett as Swain
Tips for Playing as Swain against Sett
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.
Swain vs Sett Counter Stats
How to Counter Sett with Swain in LoL
The stats provided here emphasize several critical Swain against Sett matchup statistics that can help us understand the differences and similarities between this set of champions. For instance, Swain’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Sett’s KDA ratio of NaN, indicating that Swain may be more central to his team's team fighting capacity than Sett. This observation is in large part fueled by the differences in assists.
Swain usually has a similar longest killing spree as his counter does. On average, he takes less damage than Sett. This typically indicates different amounts of tankyness, yet it can also hint that the champion with more HP has less mobility and thus is not able to kite away from additional damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Swain and Sett
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Who is Better, Swain or Sett?
Both League of Legends champions are great champions. Both champs have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Swain usually fairs equally well when trying to fight Sett, with a 49.9% win rate. Thus, Swain makes an ok counter to Sett.
While Swain does have a lower win rate compared to Sett, when they face off with one another, Swain also has a much greater learning curve that makes him a more time consuming character to learn and master. You still need to be cautious when picking Swain into Settas his relative depth means that you may not be able to unleash his full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Moreover, Swain has some amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Sett. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when trying to counter champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion in League of Legends, in Swain vs Sett matchups, Sett is the better champion with a similar win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during teamfights.
Swain is a somewhat poor counter to Sett. Make sure you focus your gameplay on increasing your CS and clearing objectives. If you do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Swain against Sett.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Swain in order to counter Sett during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and tips presented here, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Swain typically racks up less CS relative to Sett. Champions who typically don't get much CS usualy don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as supports. These kinds of champions are able to scale well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually have to have several high cost items to be effective. In either situation, try to exceed the numbers displayed here to do well.
The most important items to use in your Swain versus Sett build include Rylai's Crystal Scepter, Malignance, and Riftmaker. When Swain included at least these three pieces in his build, he performed significantly better countering Sett than with many other common builds. In fact, Swain boasted an average win rate of 49.9% when countering Sett with this build.
To have the greatest chance of coming out on top against Sett as Swain, Swain players 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 players chose for Swain vs Sett counter picks, this set of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 49.9% winrate overall.
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