Heimerdinger vs Swain
How to Beat Swain as Heimerdinger
based on 2,235 Heimerdinger vs Swain matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Heimerdinger vs Swain Matchup Summary
Best Heimerdinger vs Swain Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Swain as Heimerdinger
Tips for Playing as Heimerdinger against Swain
Spreading out Hextech Micro-Rockets leads to more reliable damage and more efficiency against multiple targets, but focusing it creates the biggest impact.
The success of Electron Storm Grenade is very important to Heimerdinger's survival. The slow and stun both are capable of keeping enemies in place long enough to punish them, but it is also the first line of defense against a surprise attack.
Turret placement can be a deciding factor in a battle. Against most enemies turrets are best when they can support each other, but if the enemy has a lot of area of effect damage your turrets can be destroyed quickly. Placing turrets in brush can lead to a surprise attack in your favor.
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.
Heimerdinger vs Swain Counter Stats
How to Counter Swain with Heimerdinger in LoL
The stats shown on this page clarify several vital Heimerdinger versus Swain counter stats that can help you interpret the differences and similarities between this pair of champs. For instance, Heimerdinger’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Swain’s ratio of NaN, indicating that Heimerdinger may be more central to his team's team fighting capability than Swain..
Heimerdinger typically has a similar longest killing spree as his enemy does. Typically, he receives less damage than Swain. This often reflects differing health capacities, but it can also indicate that the one champion has less mobility and thus is unable to escape additional damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Heimerdinger and Swain
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Who is Better, Heimerdinger or Swain?
Both LoL champs are great champions. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Heimerdinger usually loses when playing against Swain, with a 48.5% win rate. Therefore, Heimerdinger makes a bad counter for Swain.
While Heimerdinger does have a lower winrate than Swain, when they face off with one another, Heimerdinger also has a greater difficulty level that makes him a more complex character to learn and master. You still need to be cautious when picking Heimerdinger into Swainas his relative depth means that you may not be able to unleash his full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Moreover, Heimerdinger has a good amount of CC and other utility, 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 isn't one best champion overall in League of Legends, in Heimerdinger vs Swain matchups, Swain is the better champ with a lower win rate, similar champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during team fights.
Heimerdinger is a somewhat poor counter for Swain. You will do well by focussing your strategy on increasing your gold income and taking out objectives. If you can do that, you should hold your own as Heimerdinger against Swain.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Heimerdinger to counter Swain during both the lane 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 pay attention to the build and stats presented here, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Heimerdinger most often gets a similar amount of CS relative to Swain. Champs who typically don't take many minion kills typically don't need much CS to be valuable teammates, such as supports. They are able to scale well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually require several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to surpass the numbers reported on this page to do well.
The ideal items to prioritize in your Heimerdinger versus Swain build include Rylai's Crystal Scepter, Malignance, and Liandry's Torment. When Heimerdinger included at least these three pieces in his build, he performed much better when fighting Swain than with most other commonly used item sets. In fact, Heimerdinger boasted an average win rate of 48.5% battling Swain with this build.
To have the best likelihood of defeating Swain as Heimerdinger, Heimerdinger players should equip the Arcane Comet, Manaflow Band, Absolute Focus, Scorch, Biscuit Delivery, and Magical Footwear runes from the Sorcery and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the rune sets players used for Heimerdinger vs Swain fights, this composite of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 48.5% winrate overall.
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