Udyr vs Swain
How to Beat Swain as Udyr
based on 4,340 Udyr vs Swain matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Udyr vs Swain Matchup Summary
Best Udyr vs Swain Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Swain as Udyr
Tips for Playing as Udyr against Swain
Udyr is one of the best junglers in the game. Taking advantage of this can give your team a large XP advantage and map control.
Damage is applied to turtle shield post-mitigation. Therefore, buying defensive items can drastically increase your survivability.
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.
Udyr vs Swain Counter Stats
How to Counter Swain with Udyr in LoL
The stat comparisons shown here clarify several vital Udyr versus Swain matchup stats that may help us explain the differences and similarities between this pair of champs. As an example, Udyr’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Swain’s ratio of NaN, showing that Udyr may be more central to his team's team fighting effectiveness than Swain..
Udyr typically has a similar longest killing spree as his foe does. On average, he takes a similar amount of damage to Swain. This typically indicates different amounts of tankyness; however, it can also illustrate that the champ with higher health has less mobility and thus is not able to flee from further damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Udyr and Swain
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Who is Better, Udyr or Swain?
Both LoL champs are great. Both champs have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Udyr usually loses when taking on Swain, with a 48.0% win rate. Thus, Udyr makes a poor counter for Swain.
While Udyr does have a lower win rate compared to Swain, when facing one another, Udyr also has a lower learning curve that makes him a less time consuming champ to pick up and master. You should expect to face a difficult match when picking Udyr into Swainas his relative depth means you may not be able to reach his full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Additionally, Udyr has some amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Swain. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when facing champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion in League of Legends, in Udyr vs Swain matchups, Swain is the better champ with a lower win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during team fights.
Udyr is a trash counter for Swain. You will do well by focussing your strategy on maximizing your gold and cs and taking out objectives. If you do that, you should do very well as Udyr against Swain.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Udyr in order 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 mind the build and stats displayed here, you will grow your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Udyr typically picks up a similar amount of CS relative to Swain. Champions who typically don't earn much CS typically don't have to have much CS to be effective, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are able to scale well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, often have to have a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to surpass the numbers reported on this page to do well.
The most important items to prioritize in your Udyr versus Swain build consist of Frozen Heart, Riftmaker, and Liandry's Torment. When Udyr used at least these three items in his build, he performed a lot better when fighting Swain than with many other commonly used item sets. In fact, Udyr boasted an average winrate of 48.0% battling Swain with these items in his kit.
To have the best chance of vanquishing Swain as Udyr, Udyr players should equip the Hail of Blades, Sudden Impact, Eyeball Collection, Treasure Hunter, Celerity, and Waterwalking runes from the Domination and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations players chose for Udyr vs Swain face-offs, this blending of runes resulted in the highest win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 48.0% winrate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to beat Swain as Udyr are given for all skill levels, merged. To narrow the statistics and builds to a particular division, you may use the selection menu earlier on the page.