Irelia vs Swain
How to Beat Swain as Irelia
based on 3,725 Irelia vs Swain matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Irelia vs Swain Matchup Summary
Best Irelia vs Swain Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Swain as Irelia
Tips for Playing as Irelia against Swain
Defiant Dance is not interrupted by crowd control, try timing it for incoming disables.
Flawless Duet does not have a maximum travel distance, try using it in creative ways.
Use Bladesurge to cover great distances by targeting low life minions on your way to champion targets.
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.
Irelia vs Swain Counter Stats
How to Counter Swain with Irelia in LoL
The stats shown here show several valuable Irelia against Swain matchup stats that can help us interpret the differences and similarities between the pair. As an example, Irelia’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Swain’s ratio of NaN, indicating that Irelia may be more central to her team's team fighting effectiveness than Swain..
Irelia often has a slightly larger longest killing spree than her opponent does. Commonly, she takes a similar amount of damage to Swain. This typically indicates different amounts of tankyness, but it can also indicate that the one champion has less mobility and thus is not able to escape additional harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Irelia and Swain
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Who is Better, Irelia or Swain?
Both League of Legends champs are great champions. Both champs have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Irelia usually fairs equally well when taking on Swain, with a 49.0% win rate. Thus, Irelia makes an ok counter for Swain.
While Irelia does have a lower winrate compared to Swain, when on opposite teams, Irelia also has a lower level of difficulty that makes her a less time consuming champ to learn and master. You still need to be cautious when picking Irelia into Swain.
Additionally, Irelia also has some amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Swain. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when facing champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion overall in League of Legends, in Irelia vs Swain matchups, Swain 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 teamfights.
Irelia is a somewhat poor counter for Swain. You will do well by focussing your actions on maximizing your gold and cs and clearing objectives. If you can do that, you should hold your own as Irelia against Swain.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Irelia in order to counter Swain during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to pick up a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you listen to the build and tips presented here, you will grow your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Irelia most often gets more CS relative to Swain. Champs who typically don't take many minion kills typically don't need much CS to be effective, such as sup champs. These kinds of champions are able to scale properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually need many items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the numbers displayed on this page to do well.
The ideal items to prioritize in your Irelia versus Swain build include Blade of The Ruined King, Terminus, and Death's Dance. When Irelia bought at least these three items in her build, she did significantly better when fighting Swain than with most other typical counter builds. In fact, Irelia had an average winrate of 49.0% battling Swain with this counter build.
To have the best chance of defeating Swain as Irelia, Irelia players should use the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Last Stand, Bone Plating, and Unflinching runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Of all the rune sets we have analyed for Irelia vs Swain face-offs, this mixture of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 49.0% winrate overall.
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