Anivia vs Swain
How to Beat Swain as Anivia
based on 2,060 Anivia vs Swain matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Anivia vs Swain Matchup Summary
Best Anivia vs Swain Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Swain as Anivia
Tips for Playing as Anivia against Swain
Timing Flash Frost with Frostbite can lead to devastating combinations.
It can be very difficult for enemy champions to kill her egg early in game. Seize the advantage by playing aggressively.
Anivia is extremely reliant on Mana for Glacial Storm. Try getting items with Mana or going for a Crest of the Ancient Golem buff on Summoner's Rift.
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.
Anivia vs Swain Counter Stats
How to Counter Swain with Anivia in LoL
The stat comparisons shown here show several vital Anivia vs. Swain matchup stats that may help us figure out the differences and similarities between this set of champs. Anivia’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Swain’s ratio of NaN, highlighting that Anivia may be more central to her team's team fighting potential than Swain..
Anivia typically has a similar longest kill spree as her foe does. Typically, she receives less damage than Swain. This is usually reflective of different amounts of tankyness, but it can also show that the champ with more HP has less agility and thus is not able to kite away from further harm when poked or engaged.
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Who is Better, Anivia or Swain?
Both League of Legends champions are great champions. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Anivia usually fairs equally well when playing against Swain, with a 50.8% win rate. Thus, Anivia makes an ok counter to Swain.
While Anivia does have a higher win rate than Swain, when on opposite teams, Anivia also has a greater difficulty level that makes her a more difficult character to learn and master. You should be careful when picking Anivia into Swainas her relative depth means that you may not be able to unleash her full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Additionally, Anivia also has some amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Swain. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when facing champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion in League of Legends, in Anivia vs Swain matchups, Anivia is the better champion with a similar win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during late stage team fights.
Anivia is a decent counter to Swain. Make sure you focus your play on maximizing your gold and cs and destroying objectives. If you do that, you should hold your own as Anivia against Swain.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Anivia in order to counter Swain during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to learn a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you listen to the build and tips shown above, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Anivia most often gets more CS as Swain. Champions who on average don't earn much CS often don't need much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are able to scale well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, often have to have several high cost items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the values shown on this page to do well.
The top items to focus on in your Anivia versus Swain build consist of Seraph's Embrace, Rabadon's Deathcap, and Rod of Ages. When Anivia bought at least these three items in her build, she performed significantly better versus Swain than with most other commonly used item sets. In fact, Anivia boasted an average winrate of 50.8% battling Swain with this counter build.
To have the greatest probability of vanquishing Swain as Anivia, Anivia players should equip the Electrocute, Cheap Shot, Eyeball Collection, Relentless Hunter, Presence of Mind, and Coup de Grace runes from the Domination and Precision rune sets. Of all the rune combinations players chose for Anivia vs Swain counters, this set of runes yielded the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 50.8% winrate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to beat Swain as Anivia are displayed for all ranked divisions combined. If you want to narrow the stats and builds to a particular division, you should use the selection menu earlier in the counter matchup guide.