Malzahar vs Swain
How to Beat Swain as Malzahar
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Malzahar vs Swain Matchup Summary
Best Malzahar vs Swain Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Swain as Malzahar
Tips for Playing as Malzahar against Swain
Use Call of the Void and Nether Grasp to renew the duration of Malefic Visions on enemies.
Wait to cast Void Swarm until there are nearby enemies for the Voidling to attack or kill.
Avoiding damage in lane maximizes the uptime on Void Shift, increasing Malzahar's safety dramatically.
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.
Malzahar vs Swain Counter Stats
How to Counter Swain with Malzahar in LoL
The stat comparisons provided here feature some influential Malzahar versus Swain counter stats that can help you figure out the distinctions between these two champs. Malzahar’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Swain’s ratio of NaN, highlighting that Malzahar may be more central to his team's team fighting capability than Swain..
Malzahar typically has a similar longest killing spree as his enemy does. Typically, he takes less damage than Swain. This often reflects differing health capacities; however, it can also hint that the champion with more HP has less agility and thus is unable to escape further damage when engaged or poked.
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Who is Better, Malzahar or Swain?
Both League of Legends champions are great champions. Both champs have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Malzahar usually fairs equally well when taking on Swain, with a 49.4% win rate. Therefore, Malzahar makes an ok counter for Swain.
While Malzahar does have a lower winrate compared to Swain, when facing one another, Malzahar also has a lower learning curve that makes him a less challenging champion to pick up and master. You should be careful when picking Malzahar into Swain.
Moreover, Malzahar has a good 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 lot of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion in League of Legends, in Malzahar 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 allies during team fights.
Malzahar is a somewhat poor counter to Swain. You will do well by focussing your gameplay on keeping up your gold and cs and taking out objectives. If you are able to do that, you should do very well as Malzahar against Swain.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Malzahar in order to counter Swain during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to pick up a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you listen to the build and suggestions presented above, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Malzahar on average accumulates more CS compared to Swain. Champions who on average don't get much CS often don't have to have much CS to be valuable teammates, such as supports. These kinds of champions are able to scale well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually require several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to exceed the values shown here to do well.
The top items to have in your Malzahar versus Swain build consist of Malignance, Void Staff, and Liandry's Torment. When Malzahar bought at least these three pieces in his build, he performed a lot better against Swain than with many other common builds. In fact, Malzahar had an average winrate of 49.4% when countering Swain with these items in his kit.
To have the greatest probability of annihilating Swain as Malzahar, Malzahar players should use the Summon Aery, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Scorch, Magical Footwear, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Sorcery and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations players picked for Malzahar vs Swain counters, this sequence of runes yielded the best win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 49.4% win rate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to beat Swain as Malzahar are displayed for all skill levels, merged. If you would like to scope the statistics and builds to an individual rank, you can use the selection menu earlier in the counter matchup guide.