Gragas vs Swain
How to Beat Swain as Gragas
based on 2,429 Gragas vs Swain matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Gragas vs Swain Matchup Summary
Best Gragas vs Swain Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Swain as Gragas
Tips for Playing as Gragas against Swain
Try to knock enemies back into your towers with Explosive Cask.
Try to combo Body Slam with Explosive Cask to set up kills for your team.
The damage reduction from Drunken Rage is applied when you start drinking, try to use it when you see damage coming your way.
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.
Gragas vs Swain Counter Stats
How to Counter Swain with Gragas in LoL
The stats shown here clarify several important Gragas against Swain counter stats that may help us explain the distinctions between the pair. For instance, Gragas’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Swain’s KDA ratio of NaN, highlighting that Gragas may be more central to his team's team fighting capacity than Swain..
Gragas typically has a similar longest kill spree as his counter does. Typically, he receives a similar amount of damage to Swain. This often reflects different amounts of tankyness, yet it can also hint that the one champ has less mobility and thus is unable to escape additional damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Gragas and Swain
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Who is Better, Gragas or Swain?
Both LoL champs are great. Both have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Gragas usually loses when facing off against Swain, with a 47.5% win rate. Therefore, Gragas makes a poor counter to Swain.
While Gragas does have a lower winrate compared to Swain, when facing one another, Gragas also has a lower learning curve that makes him a less complex champion to develop with. You should expect to face a difficult match when picking Gragas into Swain.
Furthermore, Gragas also has a good amount of utility and CC, 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 is not one best champion in League of Legends, in Gragas vs Swain matchups, Swain is the better champion with a lower win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during teamfights.
Gragas is a terribly counter for Swain. Make sure you focus your tactics on keeping up your gold income and destroying objectives. If you are able to do that, you should do very well as Gragas against Swain.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Gragas to counter Swain during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to learn a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and stats displayed above, you will increase your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Gragas usually gets a similar amount of CS compared to Swain. Champs who on average don't acquire many minion kills usualy don't have to have much CS to be valuable teammates, such as supports. They are capable of scaling properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually require a lot of items to be effective. In either situation, try to exceed the numbers reported on this page to do well.
The ideal items to use in your Gragas versus Swain build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Lich Bane, and Stormsurge. When Gragas combined at least these three items in his build, he did a lot better when facing Swain than with most other common builds. In fact, Gragas boasted an average winrate of 47.5% when playing against Swain with this build.
To have the highest probability of defeating Swain as Gragas, Gragas players should take the Electrocute, Sudden Impact, Eyeball Collection, Ultimate Hunter, Gathering Storm, and Transcendence runes from the Domination and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the rune builds that we analyzed for Gragas vs Swain face-offs, this combination of runes yielded the best win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 47.5% winrate overall.
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