Illaoi vs Swain
How to Beat Swain as Illaoi
based on 2,719 Illaoi vs Swain matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Illaoi vs Swain Matchup Summary
Best Illaoi vs Swain Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Swain as Illaoi
Tips for Playing as Illaoi against Swain
Vessel
Tentacles are an immense source of power. Don't fight without them.
Spirits inherit their target's current health. If making a
is your goal, try whittling your opponent's health down a bit first to make killing the spirit easier.
Leap of Faith is best used to follow-up a strong engage or when being engaged upon. Be careful about being the first one into a fight.
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.
Illaoi vs Swain Counter Stats
How to Counter Swain with Illaoi in LoL
The stats shown on this page clarify several vital Illaoi versus Swain counter statistics that may help you grasp the differences and similarities between the pair. For instance, Illaoi’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Swain’s ratio of NaN, indicating that Illaoi may be more central to her team's team fighting capability than Swain..
Illaoi often has a similar longest kill spree as her counter does. Typically, she takes more damage than Swain. This often reflects different amounts of tankyness, but it can also imply that the one champ has less mobility and thus is not able to flee from further damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Illaoi and Swain
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Who is Better, Illaoi or Swain?
Both League of Legends champs are great. Both champs have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Illaoi usually loses when trying to fight Swain, with a 48.4% win rate. As a result, Illaoi makes a poor counter for Swain.
While Illaoi does have a lower win rate compared to Swain, when on opposite teams, Illaoi also has a much lower learning curve that makes her a less complex champ to learn. You should be careful when picking Illaoi into Swain.
Moreover, Illaoi also has only a small amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Swain. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when facing champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion overall in League of Legends, in Illaoi 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.
Illaoi is a somewhat poor counter to Swain. Focus your gameplay on maximizing your CS and taking out objectives. If you can do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Illaoi against Swain.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Illaoi to counter Swain during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you listen to the build and suggestions displayed here, you will increase your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Illaoi most often gets more CS relative to Swain. Champs who on average don't acquire much CS typically don't need much CS to be valuable teammates, such as supports. These kinds of champions are able to scale properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically have to have many items to be effective. In either situation, try to surpass the numbers shown here to do well.
The best items to have in your Illaoi versus Swain build include Sterak's Gage, Hullbreaker, and Iceborn Gauntlet. When Illaoi used at least these three pieces in her build, she performed much better against Swain than with most other common builds. In fact, Illaoi boasted an average win rate of 48.4% when playing against Swain with this counter build.
To have the greatest probability of defeating Swain as Illaoi, you should use the Grasp of the Undying, Demolish, Bone Plating, Overgrowth, Last Stand, and Presence of Mind runes from the Resolve and Precision rune sets. Of all the runes players chose for Illaoi vs Swain fights, this sequence of runes yielded the best win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 48.4% win rate overall.
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