Evelynn vs Swain
How to Beat Swain as Evelynn
based on 3,680 Evelynn vs Swain matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Evelynn vs Swain Matchup Summary
Best Evelynn vs Swain Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Swain as Evelynn
Tips for Playing as Evelynn against Swain
If at low health, you can take advantage of Demon Shade's healing and Camouflage to return to the fight and surprise opponents.
While stealthed, pay attention to when you are (near) being detected by enemy champions. This is identified by the glowing yellow and red eyes over nearby enemy champions.
Allure's arm time might seem long, but the Charm and magic resist shred put Evelynn at an exteme advantage so are worth the wait.
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.
Evelynn vs Swain Counter Stats
How to Counter Swain with Evelynn in LoL
The stats provided here highlight some significant Evelynn vs. Swain counter statistics that may help you distinguish the differences and similarities between this pair of champions. As an example, Evelynn’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Swain’s ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Evelynn may be more central to her team's team fighting capability than Swain. This observation is largely a result of the difference in kills.
Evelynn typically has a much larger longest killing spree than her foe does. Typically, she takes a similar amount of damage to Swain. This often reflects differing health capacities, but it can also indicate that the champ with higher health has less agility and thus is not able to flee from additional harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Evelynn and Swain
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Who is Better, Evelynn or Swain?
Both League of Legends champions are great champions. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Evelynn usually loses when trying to fight Swain, with a 48.8% win rate. As a result, Evelynn makes a poor counter to Swain.
While Evelynn does have a lower win rate than Swain, when on opposite teams, Evelynn also has a greater learning curve that makes her a more difficult champion to develop with. You still need to be cautious when picking Evelynn into Swainas her relative depth means that you may not be able to reach her full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Additionally, Evelynn has some amount of utility and CC, 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 is not one best champion overall in League of Legends, in Evelynn vs Swain matchups, Swain is the better champion with a lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during late stage team fights.
Evelynn is a somewhat poor counter for Swain. You will do well by focussing your actions on maximizing your gold income and clearing objectives. If you are able to do that, you should do very well as Evelynn against Swain.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Evelynn in order to counter Swain during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to pick up a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you listen to the build and tips displayed here, you should increase your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Evelynn typically picks up a lot less CS relative to Swain. Champs who typically don't get many minion kills usualy don't require much CS to be effective, such as sup champs. They are able to scale well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs 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 exceed the numbers shown on this page to do well.
The best items to have in your Evelynn versus Swain build consist of Rabadon's Deathcap, Lich Bane, and Shadowflame. When Evelynn incorporated at least these three items in her build, she did much better versus Swain than with many other common counter builds. In fact, Evelynn had an average win rate of 48.8% battling Swain with these items in her kit.
To have the best chance of vanquishing Swain as Evelynn, you should equip the Electrocute, Sudden Impact, Eyeball Collection, Relentless Hunter, Absolute Focus, and Gathering Storm runes from the Domination and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the runes players picked for Evelynn vs Swain LoL games, this combination of runes yielded the highest win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 48.8% winrate overall.
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