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League of Legends Champion SwainSwain is in the b tier of champions

Swain

MageFighter
Swain is a mageRolemage
DifficultyHard
Power SpikeEarly-Game
Ravenous Flock abilityp
Death's Hand abilityq
Vision of Empire abilityw
Nevermove abilitye
Demonic Ascension abilityr
StatsBuildCounters
Runes
Synergies
support
middle

Swain Build

based on 62,479 matches
Win Rate
50.8 %
Pick Rate
8.6 %
Ban Rate
5.6 %

How We Come Up with Our Swain Builds

We process over 1 Million League of Legends games every day to bring you the most accurate Swain build so you can destroy your enemies and improve you win rate. We've broken down our Swain builds by rank, position, and enemy team type, so you can find the most accurate set of Swain core items and runes for any situation.

Swain Build Summary

Swain is a a decent utility lane champion in League of Legends. His best rune sets are Precision Resolve. Incorporating the highlighted runes shown below into your Swain build will give you the additional bonuses to help him play well through the laning phase of the match and into the late game. You should start by building up his q ability first.

Best vsAll Build for Swain

Items

Starter Items

Time Target
Health PotionControl Ward

Early Items

~5 Mins
Fiendish CodexLost Chapter

Core Swain Items

~22 Mins
Jak'Sho, The ProteanSpirit VisageRylai's Crystal ScepterSorcerer's Shoes

Optional Items

Rabadon's DeathcapDemonic EmbraceFrozen HeartSeraph's Embrace

Summoner Spells

summonerflash summoner spell D
summonerhaste summoner spell F

Skill Order

First skill for Swain to level upq
>
Second ability for Swain to level upw
>
Last skill for Swain to max oute

Runes

PrecisionConquerorPresence of MindLegend: TenacityLast Stand
ResolveConditioningRevitalize
Adaptive ForceAdaptive ForceHealth Scaling
Swain's passive ability p
Swain's q ability q
Swain's w ability w
Swain's e ability e
Swain's ultimate ability r
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E
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Q
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W
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Q
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Q
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R
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Q
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W
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Q
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W
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R
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W
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W
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E
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E
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R

Swain Matchups Overview

Swain is Weak Against

XerathXerath44.1% winrateMaokaiMaokai45.7% winrateShacoShaco45.8% winrateZyraZyra45.9% winrate

Swain is Strong Against

Tahm KenchTahm Kench62% winrateTaricTaric58.6% winrateNautilusNautilus54.6% winrateYuumiYuumi53.8% winrate

Top Synergies by Role

Jhinbottom+ 53.5% 5192 GamesYoricktop+ 53.6% 2120 GamesXerathmiddle+ 54.6% 1413 GamesIvernjungle+ 56% 670 Games

More Gameplay Tips for Swain Players

Tips and Tricks

Decrepify can be used to slow down enemies and set them up for Nevermore's stun.

Using Torment on a target is also useful to enhance the damage of your other abilities.

Swain has incredible combo potential, practice timing all your abilities to get the highest damage output.

Additional Swain Build Insights

LoL Swain players will likely find him to be a complex champion to build out properly. You will see that his build varies when he is up against either diversified or homogenous team comps, showing you shouldn't take the same Swain build every game of League of Legends

The best items to include in your champion's build include: Jak'Sho, The Protean, Spirit Visage, and Rylai's Crystal Scepter. Those who included these pieces in their setups had a better win rate than players who utilized other Swain builds. Similarly, if you are fighting a varied enemy team arrangement, you should strongly consider getting yourself the Precision, and Resolve runes. In recent games, he won the largest number of his games when built with these runes.

We calculated our Swain build suggestions by examining 62,479 recently ranked League matches with him selected. We only recommend the highest winrate Swain builds that were used by ranked League players enough times for us to suggest them. With so many rounds in our dataset, we are very confident in our provided builds.