Jax vs Swain
How to Beat Swain as Jax
based on 9,883 Jax vs Swain matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Jax vs Swain Matchup Summary
Best Jax vs Swain Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Swain as Jax
Tips for Playing as Jax against Swain
Jax benefits greatly from items that have both Ability Power and Attack Damage such as Guinsoo's Rageblade and Hextech Gunblade.
Jax can Leap Strike to friendly units, including wards. You can use them to plan your escape.
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.
Jax vs Swain Counter Stats
How to Counter Swain with Jax in LoL
The stat comparisons provided here clarify several important Jax vs. Swain counter statistics that can help us realize the differences between the pair. As an example, Jax’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Swain’s KDA ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Jax may be more central to his team's team fighting potential than Swain..
Jax normally has a similar longest killing spree as his foe does. On average, he receives a similar amount of damage to Swain. This commonly reflects different amounts of tankyness, but it can also hint that the champion with increased HP has less agility and thus is not able to escape additional damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Jax and Swain
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Who is Better, Jax or Swain?
Both LoL champs are great champions. Both champs have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Jax usually fairs equally well when facing off against Swain, with a 49.4% win rate. As a result, Jax makes an ok counter for Swain.
While Jax does have a lower winrate than Swain, when on opposite teams, Jax also has a lower learning curve that makes him a less complex character to pick up and master. You still need to be cautious when picking Jax into Swain.
Furthermore, Jax has some amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Swain. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when fighting champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion overall in League of Legends, in Jax vs Swain matchups, Swain is the better champ 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.
Jax is a somewhat poor counter for Swain. You will do well by focussing your strategy on keeping up your gold and cs and destroying objectives. If you are able to do that, you should hold your own as Jax against Swain.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Jax in order to counter Swain during both the laning 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 listen to the build and stats presented here, you should increase your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Jax usually accumulates a similar amount of CS compared to Swain. Champions who typically don't get much CS usualy don't have to have much CS to be effective, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, often have to have several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to surpass the values displayed here to do well.
The top items to use in your Jax versus Swain build include Sterak's Gage, Spear of Shojin, and Sundered Sky. When Jax bought at least these three items in his build, he did much better vs Swain than with most other common builds. In fact, Jax had an average win rate of 49.4% when playing against Swain with these items in his kit.
To have the highest likelihood of beating Swain as Jax, you should take the Lethal Tempo, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Last Stand, Magical Footwear, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Precision and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the runes players picked for Jax vs Swain face-offs, this blending of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 49.4% win rate overall.
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