Swain vs Tristana
How to Beat Tristana as Swain
based on 4,710 Swain vs Tristana matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Swain vs Tristana Matchup Summary
Best Swain vs Tristana Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Tristana as Swain
Tips for Playing as Swain against Tristana
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 Tristana
Stand away from your creeps in a lane to take less collateral damage from Explosive Charge.
If you see Tristana activate Rapid Fire in a fight, stun her and try to back off until the spell dissipates.
Swain vs Tristana Counter Stats
How to Counter Tristana with Swain in LoL
The stat comparisons shown on this page feature several important Swain versus Tristana matchup stats that may help us realize the differences and similarities between this set of champs. Swain’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Tristana’s KDA ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Swain may be more central to his team's team fighting effectiveness than Tristana. This observation is in large part fueled by the differences in assists.
Swain often has a slightly smaller longest kill spree than his enemy does. Typically, he receives more damage than Tristana. This often reflects differing health capacities, yet it can also show that the champion with higher health has less agility and thus is not able to escape further harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Swain and Tristana
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Who is Better, Swain or Tristana?
Both League champs are great. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Swain usually wins when taking on Tristana, with a 52.6% win rate. Therefore, Swain makes a good counter to Tristana.
While Swain does have a higher winrate compared to Tristana, when facing one another, Swain also has a much greater difficulty level that makes him a more difficult champ to learn and master. You don't need to be too worried when picking Swain into Tristanaas his relative depth means that you may not be able to unleash his full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Additionally, Swain has some amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Tristana. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when facing champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Swain vs Tristana 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 team fights.
Swain is an above average counter for Tristana. Make sure you focus your tactics on maximizing your CS and taking out objectives. If you can do that, you should do very well as Swain against Tristana.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Swain in order to counter Tristana during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to learn a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you listen to the build and tips displayed here, you should grow your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Swain typically accumulates less CS as Tristana. Champions who on average don't get much CS often don't require much CS to be effective, such as support champions. They are able to scale well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, often have to have several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to surpass the values displayed on this page to do well.
The best items to focus on in your Swain versus Tristana build consist of Rylai's Crystal Scepter, Solstice Sleigh, and Liandry's Torment. When Swain included at least these three items in his build, he performed a lot better countering Tristana than with many other commonly used counter builds. In fact, Swain boasted an average win rate of 52.6% when playing against Tristana with these items in his kit.
To have the highest probability of annihilating Tristana as Swain, Swain players should use the Summon Aery, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Scorch, Conditioning, and Overgrowth runes from the Sorcery and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations players used for Swain vs Tristana matchups, this mixture of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 52.6% win rate overall.
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