Hwei vs Swain
How to Beat Swain as Hwei
based on 6,797 Hwei vs Swain matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Hwei vs Swain Matchup Summary
Best Hwei vs Swain Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Swain as Hwei
Tips for Playing as Hwei against Swain
Calm down, breathe, and focus.
Each stroke requires precision and intention.
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.
Hwei vs Swain Counter Stats
How to Counter Swain with Hwei in LoL
The stat comparisons provided here clarify several influential Hwei vs. Swain counter stats that can help you grasp the distinctions between the two. For instance, Hwei’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Swain’s ratio of NaN, highlighting that Hwei may be more central to their team's team fighting potential than Swain..
Hwei usually has a similar longest killing spree as their foe does. On average, they takes less damage than Swain. This commonly reflects different amounts of tankyness, yet it can also illustrate that the champion with higher HP has less mobility and thus is not able to flee from additional harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Hwei and Swain
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Who is Better, Hwei or Swain?
Both League champions are great champions. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Hwei usually loses when trying to fight Swain, with a 46.0% win rate. As a result, Hwei makes a bad counter to Swain.
While Hwei does have a lower winrate compared to Swain, when facing one another, Hwei also has a greater learning curve that makes them a more difficult champ to develop with. You should expect to face a difficult match when picking Hwei into Swainas their relative depth means that you may not be able to reach their full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Moreover, Hwei also has some amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Swain. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when fighting champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Hwei vs Swain matchups, Swain is the better champion with a much lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during late stage team fights.
Hwei is a trash counter to Swain. You will do well by focussing your strategy on keeping up your gold income and clearing objectives. If you can do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Hwei against Swain.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Hwei in order to counter Swain during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to gather a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you mind the build and tips displayed above, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Hwei usually gets a similar amount of CS as Swain. Champs who on average don't earn many minion kills typically don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are able to scale well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically require several high cost items to be effective. In either situation, try to surpass the values shown here to do well.
The most important items to use in your Hwei versus Swain build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Shadowflame, and Stormsurge. When Hwei combined at least these three items in their build, they performed significantly better versus Swain than with most other typical builds. In fact, Hwei had an average win rate of 46.0% when countering Swain with this counter build.
To have the best chance of beating Swain as Hwei, Hwei players should equip the First Strike, Magical Footwear, Biscuit Delivery, Cosmic Insight, Gathering Storm, and Manaflow Band runes from the Inspiration and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the rune builds that we analyzed for Hwei vs Swain matchups, this order of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 46.0% winrate overall.
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