Leona vs Swain
How to Beat Swain as Leona
based on 5,459 Leona vs Swain matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Leona vs Swain Matchup Summary
Best Leona vs Swain Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Swain as Leona
Tips for Playing as Leona against Swain
Shield of Daybreak and Zenith Blade form a powerful offensive combo.
Lead the charge and mark your foes with Sunlight before your allies deal damage.
You can absorb a huge amount of damage using Eclipse, but you must stay near enemies to gain the bonus duration.
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.
Leona vs Swain Counter Stats
How to Counter Swain with Leona in LoL
The stat comparisons shown here clarify some significant Leona against Swain counter statistics that may help you grasp the distinctions between these two champions. Leona’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Swain’s KDA ratio of NaN, indicating that Leona may be more central to her team's team fighting effectiveness than Swain..
Leona normally has a significantly smaller longest kill spree than her counter does. Typically, she receives less damage than Swain. This often reflects differing health capacities; however, it can also imply that the champ with increased HP has less mobility and thus is not able to escape further damage when engaged or poked.
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Who is Better, Leona or Swain?
Both League of Legends champs are great champions. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Leona usually loses when trying to fight Swain, with a 48.0% win rate. Therefore, Leona makes a poor counter to Swain.
While Leona does have a lower winrate than Swain, when on opposite teams, Leona also has a much lower difficulty level that makes her a less time consuming champion to learn and master. You should be very concerned when picking Leona into Swain.
Furthermore, Leona has a great 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 isn't a single best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Leona 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 late stage team fights.
Leona is a garbage counter to Swain. Make sure you focus your strategy on maximizing your gold income and destroying objectives. If you can do that, you should hold your own as Leona against Swain.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Leona to counter Swain during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to gather a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you listen to the build and tips shown above, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Leona usually picks up a lot less CS relative to Swain. Champs who typically don't get much CS often 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 a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically have to have a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to exceed the values reported here to do well.
The most important items to prioritize in your Leona versus Swain build include Zeke's Convergence, Thornmail, and Locket of the Iron Solari. When Leona bought at least these three items in her build, she performed much better vs Swain than with most other typical counter builds. In fact, Leona boasted an average win rate of 48.0% when countering Swain with this counter build.
To have the greatest chance of beating Swain as Leona, Leona players should use the Aftershock, Font of Life, Bone Plating, Unflinching, Biscuit Delivery, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Resolve and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations players used for Leona vs Swain clashes, this set of runes yielded the highest win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 48.0% win rate overall.
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