Diana vs Swain
How to Beat Swain as Diana
based on 5,961 Diana vs Swain matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Diana vs Swain Matchup Summary
Best Diana vs Swain Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Swain as Diana
Tips for Playing as Diana against Swain
Use Moonfall and Lunar Rush to stay on targets and activate Moonsilver Blade for extra damage.
Consider when to cast Lunar Rush without Moonlight and when to wait for another Crescent Strike.
Landing Crescent Strike is critically important, but don't be afraid to miss. The cooldown is short and the mana cost is low.
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.
Diana vs Swain Counter Stats
How to Counter Swain with Diana in LoL
The stats shown on this page clarify some significant Diana versus Swain matchup statistics that may help you appreciate the distinctions between the two. Diana’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Swain’s KDA ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Diana may be more central to her team's team fighting capability than Swain..
Diana normally has a slightly larger longest kill spree than her opponent does. Typically, she takes less damage than Swain. This is usually reflective of differing health capacities, but it can also show that the champion with increased HP has less mobility and thus is unable to escape additional harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Diana and Swain
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Who is Better, Diana or Swain?
Both League of Legends champs are great. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Diana usually loses when trying to fight Swain, with a 47.9% win rate. Thus, Diana makes a bad counter to Swain.
While Diana does have a lower winrate than Swain, when they face off with one another, Diana also has a much lower learning curve that makes her a less difficult champion to learn. You should expect to face a difficult match when picking Diana into Swain.
Moreover, Diana also has only a small amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Swain. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when trying to counter champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion in League of Legends, in Diana 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 team members during team fights.
Diana is a trash counter to Swain. Focus your play on keeping up your gold income and destroying objectives. If you can do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Diana against Swain.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Diana to counter Swain during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to learn a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you listen to the build and suggestions presented here, you will increase your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Diana typically accumulates a similar amount of CS as Swain. Champs who typically don't acquire many minion kills 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 skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, often have to have a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to surpass the values shown on this page to do well.
The most crucial items to use in your Diana versus Swain build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Void Staff, and Stormsurge. When Diana incorporated at least these three items in her build, she performed significantly better against Swain than with many other common builds. In fact, Diana had an average win rate of 47.9% when playing against Swain with this counter build.
To have the best likelihood of annihilating Swain as Diana, you should use the Electrocute, Sudden Impact, Eyeball Collection, Treasure Hunter, Manaflow Band, and Scorch runes from the Domination and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the rune builds players chose for Diana vs Swain counter picks, this mix of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 47.9% winrate overall.
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