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.
Focus on dodging Wild Cards early when your champion doesn't have the hit points to afford getting hit.
If you have low Health, use Destiny as an indicator to run to safety. It will give you a head start in escaping any possible ganks.
The stat comparisons shown on this page highlight several significant Swain versus Twisted Fate matchup statistics that may help us figure out the distinctions between this set of champs. Swain’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Twisted Fate’s KDA ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Swain may be more central to his team's team fighting potential than Twisted Fate..
Swain normally has a similar longest kill spree as his opponent does. Typically, he takes more damage than Twisted Fate. This commonly reflects differing health capacities, yet it can also hint that the champion with higher health has less mobility and thus is not able to escape further damage when engaged or poked.
Both League of Legends champs are great champions. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Swain usually wins when facing off against Twisted Fate, with a 51.5% win rate. Therefore, Swain makes a good counter to Twisted Fate.
While Swain does have a higher win rate compared to Twisted Fate, when facing one another, Swain also has a lower level of difficulty that makes him a less challenging character to learn. You should be careful when picking Swain into Twisted Fateas his relative depth means that you may not be able to unleash his full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Additionally, Swain has some amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Twisted Fate. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when fighting champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Swain vs Twisted Fate matchups, Swain is the better champion with a higher win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during late stage team fights.
Swain is a decent counter for Twisted Fate. Focus your play on increasing your gold and cs and taking out objectives. If you can do that, you should hold your own as Swain against Twisted Fate.
To truly master Swain in order to counter Twisted Fate during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to learn a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you listen to the build and tips displayed above, you should grow your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Swain usually accumulates less CS relative to Twisted Fate. Champs who typically don't acquire much CS typically don't have to have much CS to be valuable teammates, such as supports. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically need several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the numbers shown on this page to do well.
The ideal items to prioritize in your Swain versus Twisted Fate build include Malignance, Riftmaker, and Liandry's Torment. When Swain included at least these three pieces in his build, he did a lot better countering Twisted Fate than with most other typical counter builds. In fact, Swain had an average win rate of 51.5% when countering Twisted Fate with this build.
To have the highest probability of annihilating Twisted Fate as Swain, you should take the Summon Aery, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Scorch, Conditioning, and Overgrowth runes from the Sorcery and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the rune builds we have analyed for Swain vs Twisted Fate clashes, this mixture of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 51.5% winrate overall.
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