Sylas vs Swain
How to Beat Swain as Sylas
based on 5,471 Sylas vs Swain matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Sylas vs Swain Matchup Summary
Best Sylas vs Swain Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Swain as Sylas
Tips for Playing as Sylas against Swain
Clever use of enemy ultimates can open up new possibilities to approach teamfights.
Wait for you or your enemy to reach low health before using Kingslayer for maximum effect.
Space out your ability usage to get maximum effect from Petricite Burst.
Advice to Win Against Swain
Buying an item with Grievous Wounds will make Swain much easier to kill during his Demonic Ascension.
Swain's passive is very potent if you are immobilized. Make sure to be extra careful around enemies who have immobilizing effects.
High mobility counters all of Swain's basic abilities: Death's Hand does more damage the closer he is, Vision of Empire has a very long delay and Nevermove must start returning back to him to be dangerous.
Sylas vs Swain Counter Stats
How to Counter Swain with Sylas in LoL
The stat comparisons shown on this page show some important Sylas versus Swain counter statistics that can help us interpret the differences between the pair. For instance, Sylas’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Swain’s KDA ratio of NaN, indicating that Sylas may be more central to his team's team fighting effectiveness than Swain. This observation is largely caused by the difference in kills.
Sylas often has a slightly larger longest killing spree than his matchup does. Typically, he receives a similar amount of damage to Swain. This is usually reflective of different amounts of tankyness, yet it can also imply that the one champion has less agility and thus is unable to escape additional damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Sylas and Swain
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Who is Better, Sylas or Swain?
Both League of Legends champs are great champions. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Sylas usually wins when taking on Swain, with a 51.2% win rate. Thus, Sylas makes a good counter for Swain.
While Sylas does have a higher win rate than Swain, when facing one another, Sylas also has a lower learning curve that makes him a less time consuming champ to pick up and master. You still need to be cautious when picking Sylas into Swain.
Additionally, Sylas has only a small amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Swain. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when fighting champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Sylas vs Swain matchups, Sylas is the better champ with a higher win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during teamfights.
Sylas is a decent counter for Swain. You will do well by focussing your strategy on increasing your CS and taking out objectives. If you can do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Sylas against Swain.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Sylas to counter Swain during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to gather a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and stats shown here, you should increase your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Sylas often racks up a similar amount of CS relative to Swain. Champs who typically don't earn many minion kills usualy don't have to have much CS to be effective, such as sup champs. They are able to scale properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, often require a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the values reported here to do well.
The best items to have in your Sylas versus Swain build include Banshee's Veil, Zhonya's Hourglass, and Stormsurge. When Sylas included at least these three pieces in his build, he performed a lot better vs. Swain than with most other typical item sets. In fact, Sylas boasted an average winrate of 51.2% when countering Swain with this counter build.
To have the greatest chance of annihilating Swain as Sylas, you should use the Electrocute, Sudden Impact, Eyeball Collection, Relentless Hunter, Transcendence, and Scorch runes from the Domination and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations players picked for Sylas vs Swain battles, this order of runes yielded the highest win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 51.2% win rate overall.
By default, tips, statistics, and builds on how to beat Swain as Sylas are displayed for all skill levels combined. To narrow the stats and builds to a specific rank, you should use the selection menu located earlier on the page.