Graves vs Swain
How to Beat Swain as Graves
based on 6,054 Graves vs Swain matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Graves vs Swain Matchup Summary
Best Graves vs Swain Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Swain as Graves
Tips for Playing as Graves against Swain
Smoke Screen can be used both to escape and to set up a kill.
Using Quickdraw to get into range and delivering a point blank Buckshot can do lots of damage.
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.
Graves vs Swain Counter Stats
How to Counter Swain with Graves in LoL
The stat comparisons provided here show several strategic Graves versus Swain counter statistics that may help us understand the differences and similarities between the pair. For instance, Graves’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Swain’s KDA ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Graves may be more central to his team's team fighting capability than Swain..
Graves usually has a slightly larger longest kill spree than his matchup does. Typically, he takes a similar amount of damage to Swain. This is usually reflective of differing health capacities; however, it can also show that the champion with more health has less mobility and thus is unable to escape additional damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Graves and Swain
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Who is Better, Graves or Swain?
Both League of Legends champs are great. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Graves usually fairs equally well when facing off against Swain, with a 50.9% win rate. Therefore, Graves makes an ok counter to Swain.
While Graves does have a higher win rate compared to Swain, when they face off with one another, Graves also has a much lower level of difficulty that makes him a less time consuming champ to pick up and master. You should be careful when picking Graves into Swain.
Moreover, Graves has almost no 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 ton of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion in League of Legends, in Graves vs Swain matchups, Graves is the better champion with a similar win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during late stage team fights.
Graves is a decent counter for Swain. Focus your actions on increasing your CS and destroying objectives. If you are able to do that, you should do very well as Graves against Swain.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Graves to counter Swain during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to pick up a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and stats displayed here, you should grow your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Graves usually gets less CS relative to Swain. Champs who on average don't get many minion kills often don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as supports. They are capable of scaling properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically have to have several high cost items to be effective. In either situation, try to surpass the values reported here to do well.
The best items to have in your Graves versus Swain build include Infinity Edge, Bloodthirster, and The Collector. When Graves included at least these three pieces in his build, he did much better against Swain than with most other commonly used builds. In fact, Graves had an average winrate of 50.9% when countering Swain with this build.
To have the best chance of beating Swain as Graves, you should equip the Fleet Footwork, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Coup de Grace, Sudden Impact, and Treasure Hunter runes from the Precision and Domination rune sets. Of all the rune builds players picked for Graves vs Swain counter picks, this order of runes yielded the best win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 50.9% win rate overall.
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