Swain vs Zed
How to Beat Zed as Swain
based on 4,933 Swain vs Zed matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Swain vs Zed Matchup Summary
Best Swain vs Zed Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Zed as Swain
Tips for Playing as Swain against Zed
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 Zed
Zed's Shadow Slash can only slow you if his shadow hits you with it.
Zed receives bonus effect from Attack Damage items he purchases, so Armor is super effective against him.
After Zed uses his Living Shadow, he is at his most vulnerable as his damage, slow, and mobility are both dependent upon it.
Swain vs Zed Counter Stats
How to Counter Zed with Swain in LoL
The stat comparisons provided here emphasize some influential Swain vs. Zed matchup stats that can help us appreciate the distinctions between the pair. As an example, Swain’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Zed’s KDA ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Swain may be more central to his team's team fighting effectiveness than Zed. This observation is largely a result of the differences in assists.
Swain normally has a slightly smaller longest killing spree than his counter does. On average, he receives more damage than Zed. This is usually reflective of differing health capacities, yet it can also show that the champ with higher health has less mobility and thus is unable to flee from further harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Swain and Zed
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Who is Better, Swain or Zed?
Both League champions are great. Both champs have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Swain usually wins when facing off against Zed, with a 53.3% win rate. As a result, Swain makes a great counter to Zed.
While Swain does have a higher winrate than Zed, when facing one another, Swain also has a greater level of difficulty that makes him a more difficult champion to pick up and master. You should be be fine when picking Swain into Zedas his relative depth means you may not be able to reach his full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Furthermore, Swain has some amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Zed. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when fighting champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Swain vs Zed 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 allied champions during team fights.
Swain is a great counter to Zed. You will do well by focussing your gameplay on keeping up your gold income and destroying objectives. If you can do that, you should hold your own as Swain against Zed.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Swain in order to counter Zed during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you listen to the build and stats shown above, you will increase your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Swain typically picks up less CS compared to Zed. Champs who on average don't earn much CS typically don't require much CS to be effective, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically have to have a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the values reported on this page to do well.
The top items to prioritize in your Swain versus Zed build include Rylai's Crystal Scepter, Malignance, and Solstice Sleigh. When Swain incorporated at least these three items in his build, he performed significantly better countering Zed than with most other commonly used item sets. In fact, Swain boasted an average winrate of 53.3% when countering Zed with this build.
To have the highest probability of vanquishing Zed as Swain, Swain players should take the Electrocute, Cheap Shot, Eyeball Collection, Ultimate Hunter, Coup de Grace, and Presence of Mind runes from the Domination and Precision rune sets. Of all the rune sets we have analyed for Swain vs Zed face-offs, this mix of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 53.3% win rate overall.
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