Aphelios vs Swain
How to Beat Swain as Aphelios
based on 1,781 Aphelios vs Swain matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Aphelios vs Swain Matchup Summary
Best Aphelios vs Swain Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Swain as Aphelios
Tips for Playing as Aphelios against Swain
Each of Aphelios' weapons have different strengths, so try to find the right situation for your current weapons.
Advice to Win Against Swain
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.
Buying an item with Grievous Wounds will make Swain much easier to kill during his Demonic Ascension.
Aphelios vs Swain Counter Stats
How to Counter Swain with Aphelios in LoL
The stat comparisons shown on this page show some vital Aphelios vs. Swain matchup stats that can help you realize the differences between the pair. As an example, Aphelios’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Swain’s KDA ratio of NaN, showing that Aphelios may be more central to his team's team fighting potential than Swain..
Aphelios typically has a similar longest kill spree as his counter does. Commonly, he receives less damage than Swain. This often reflects differing health capacities; however, it can also hint that the champ with increased HP has less agility and thus is unable to escape further damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Aphelios and Swain
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Who is Better, Aphelios or Swain?
Both LoL champions are great champions. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Aphelios usually loses when taking on Swain, with a 43.2% win rate. Therefore, Aphelios makes a bad counter to Swain.
While Aphelios does have a much lower winrate than Swain, when they face off with one another, Aphelios also has a greater learning curve that makes him a more difficult champion to learn. You should expect to face a difficult match when picking Aphelios into Swainas his relative depth means that you may not be able to unleash his full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Moreover, Aphelios also has only a small amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Swain. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when trying to counter champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion overall in League of Legends, in Aphelios vs Swain matchups, Swain is the better champ with a much lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during team fights.
Aphelios is a terribly counter for Swain. You will do well by focussing your play on increasing your CS and destroying objectives. If you do that, you should do very well as Aphelios against Swain.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Aphelios in order to counter Swain during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to gather a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you mind the build and stats shown above, you should increase your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Aphelios most often racks up more CS relative to Swain. Champs who typically don't acquire many minion kills often don't need much CS to be valuable teammates, such as supports. They are able to scale well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, often need a lot of items to be effective. In either situation, try to surpass the numbers displayed on this page to do well.
The best items to focus on in your Aphelios versus Swain build include Kraken Slayer, Infinity Edge, and Lord Dominik's Regards. When Aphelios bought at least these three items in his build, he performed significantly better when fighting Swain than with many other typical builds. In fact, Aphelios boasted an average winrate of 43.2% when countering Swain with this counter build.
To have the greatest likelihood of defeating Swain as Aphelios, Aphelios players should take the Fleet Footwork, Overheal, Legend: Bloodline, Cut Down, Absolute Focus, and Gathering Storm runes from the Precision and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the runes players picked for Aphelios vs Swain counter picks, this mix of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 43.2% win rate overall.
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