Fiddlesticks vs Swain
How to Beat Swain as Fiddlesticks
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Fiddlesticks vs Swain Matchup Summary
Best Fiddlesticks vs Swain Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Swain as Fiddlesticks
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.
Fiddlesticks vs Swain Counter Stats
How to Counter Swain with Fiddlesticks in LoL
The stats shown here show several significant Fiddlesticks vs. Swain matchup statistics that may help us understand the differences between the two. As an example, Fiddlesticks’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Swain’s KDA ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Fiddlesticks may be more central to his team's team fighting capacity than Swain..
Fiddlesticks usually has a similar longest kill spree as his opponent does. Commonly, he takes a similar amount of damage to Swain. This commonly reflects different amounts of tankyness, yet it can also imply that the one champion has less mobility and thus is unable to kite away from further damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Fiddlesticks and Swain
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Who is Better, Fiddlesticks or Swain?
Both League champs are great. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Fiddlesticks usually loses when playing against Swain, with a 47.1% win rate. Thus, Fiddlesticks makes a bad counter to Swain.
While Fiddlesticks does have a lower winrate than Swain, when they face off with one another, Fiddlesticks also has a greater level of difficulty that makes him a more challenging character to pick up and master. You should expect to face a difficult match when picking Fiddlesticks into Swainas his relative depth means you may not be able to unleash his full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Moreover, Fiddlesticks has a good amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Swain. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when trying to counter champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion in League of Legends, in Fiddlesticks vs Swain matchups, Swain is the better champ with a lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during team fights.
Fiddlesticks is a terribly counter to Swain. Focus your actions on increasing your CS and taking out objectives. If you are able to do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Fiddlesticks against Swain.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Fiddlesticks in order to counter Swain during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to gather a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you listen to the build and tips displayed here, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Fiddlesticks most often racks up less CS relative to Swain. Champions who on average don't take many minion kills usualy don't need much CS to be effective, such as sup champs. They are able to scale properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically need several high cost items to be effective. In either situation, try to exceed the values shown on this page to do well.
The top items to focus on in your Fiddlesticks versus Swain build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Zhonya's Hourglass, and Stormsurge. When Fiddlesticks used at least these three items in his build, he did much better versus Swain than with most other common item sets. In fact, Fiddlesticks had an average win rate of 47.1% battling Swain with this counter build.
To have the highest probability of coming out on top against Swain as Fiddlesticks, Fiddlesticks players should equip the First Strike, Triple Tonic, Future's Market, Cosmic Insight, Cheap Shot, and Ultimate Hunter runes from the Inspiration and Domination rune sets. Out of all the runes players chose for Fiddlesticks vs Swain LoL games, this combination of runes yielded the highest win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 47.1% win rate overall.
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