Aurelion Sol vs Swain
How to Beat Swain as Aurelion Sol
based on 2,363 Aurelion Sol vs Swain matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Aurelion Sol vs Swain Matchup Summary
Best Aurelion Sol vs Swain Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Swain as Aurelion Sol
Tips for Playing as Aurelion Sol against Swain
You can use Comet of Legend's flight to grow Starsurge to massive proportions.
Comet of Legend allows you to move quickly around the map; use it to put pressure on other lanes.
Save Voice of Light to use as a defense against melee opponents if you need to - otherwise, use its slow to start a fight at long range.
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.
Aurelion Sol vs Swain Counter Stats
How to Counter Swain with Aurelion Sol in LoL
The stat comparisons provided here show several valuable Aurelion Sol vs. Swain matchup stats that may help us distinguish the differences and similarities between this set of champions. As an example, Aurelion Sol’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Swain’s ratio of NaN, showing that Aurelion Sol may be more central to his team's team fighting capacity than Swain..
Aurelion Sol typically has a slightly larger longest killing spree than his opponent does. Commonly, he receives less damage than Swain. This typically indicates different amounts of tankyness, yet it can also indicate that the one champion has less agility and thus is not able to kite away from additional damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Aurelion Sol and Swain
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Who is Better, Aurelion Sol or Swain?
Both League of Legends champions are great champions. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Aurelion Sol usually loses when facing off against Swain, with a 48.5% win rate. As a result, Aurelion Sol makes a bad counter for Swain.
While Aurelion Sol does have a lower win rate than Swain, when on opposite teams, Aurelion Sol also has a lower learning curve that makes him a less complex champ to learn and master. You still need to be cautious when picking Aurelion Sol into Swainas his relative depth means that you may not be able to reach his full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Furthermore, Aurelion Sol also has almost no amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Swain. This often 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 Aurelion Sol 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 allied champions during late stage team fights.
Aurelion Sol is a somewhat poor counter to Swain. You will do well by focussing your strategy on keeping up your gold income and destroying objectives. If you can do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Aurelion Sol against Swain.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Aurelion Sol in order to counter Swain during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to gather a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and stats shown above, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Aurelion Sol typically accumulates more CS relative to Swain. Champs who typically don't take much CS usualy don't need much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually have to have several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the numbers shown here to do well.
The most crucial items to use in your Aurelion Sol versus Swain build include Seraph's Embrace, Rabadon's Deathcap, and Liandry's Torment. When Aurelion Sol combined at least these three pieces in his build, he performed a lot better versus Swain than with many other common builds. In fact, Aurelion Sol boasted an average winrate of 48.5% when playing against Swain with this counter build.
To have the greatest probability of beating Swain as Aurelion Sol, Aurelion Sol players should take the First Strike, Magical Footwear, Minion Dematerializer, Cosmic Insight, Absolute Focus, and Gathering Storm runes from the Inspiration and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the rune combinations that we analyzed for Aurelion Sol vs Swain clashes, this combo of runes resulted in the best win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 48.5% win rate overall.
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