Lissandra vs Swain
How to Beat Swain as Lissandra
based on 1,674 Lissandra vs Swain matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Lissandra vs Swain Matchup Summary
Best Lissandra vs Swain Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Swain as Lissandra
Tips for Playing as Lissandra against Swain
Lissandra's abilities are shorter range than those of many mages. As a result, buying items that offer both ability power and defense, like Zhonya's Hourglass and Banshee's Veil, can be a great choice to help her both survive and deal damage.
Casting Glacial Path and then running in the opposite direction will leave your enemies uncertain which way you will actually go.
You can instantly use your ultimate on yourself by pressing the self cast key and the ultimate key at once (alt+R by default).
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.
Lissandra vs Swain Counter Stats
How to Counter Swain with Lissandra in LoL
The stat comparisons shown here underscore several strategic Lissandra versus Swain counter stats that can help you distinguish the differences between the pair. For instance, Lissandra’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Swain’s KDA ratio of NaN, highlighting that Lissandra may be more central to her team's team fighting effectiveness than Swain..
Lissandra often has a similar longest killing spree as her opponent does. Typically, she receives less damage than Swain. This often reflects different amounts of tankyness, but it can also hint that the champion with more health has less mobility and thus is unable to kite away from further harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Lissandra and Swain
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Who is Better, Lissandra or Swain?
Both LoL champions are great. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Lissandra usually loses when facing off against Swain, with a 46.0% win rate. Thus, Lissandra makes a bad counter for Swain.
While Lissandra does have a lower winrate compared to Swain, when facing one another, Lissandra also has a lower learning curve that makes her a less challenging champion to learn and master. You should expect to face a difficult match when picking Lissandra into Swain.
Furthermore, Lissandra has a good amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Swain. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when facing champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Lissandra vs Swain matchups, Swain is the better champion with a much lower win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during team fights.
Lissandra is a garbage counter to Swain. You will do well by focussing your tactics on maximizing your gold income and taking out objectives. If you do that, you should do very well as Lissandra against Swain.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Lissandra 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 tips and tricks for this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and stats shown above, you should grow your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Lissandra typically gets more CS compared to Swain. Champs who typically don't get much CS typically don't require much CS to be effective, such as sup champs. These kinds of champions are able to scale properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically have to have several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to exceed the values displayed here to do well.
The most important items to focus on in your Lissandra versus Swain build include Malignance, Shadowflame, and Stormsurge. When Lissandra used at least these three items in her build, she performed significantly better against Swain than with many other commonly used builds. In fact, Lissandra had an average winrate of 46.0% battling Swain with this counter build.
To have the best chance of defeating Swain as Lissandra, you should use the Electrocute, Cheap Shot, Eyeball Collection, Ultimate Hunter, Manaflow Band, and Transcendence runes from the Domination and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the runes players chose for Lissandra vs Swain counters, this combination of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 46.0% winrate overall.
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