Maokai vs Swain
How to Beat Swain as Maokai
based on 5,963 Maokai vs Swain matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Maokai vs Swain Matchup Summary
Best Maokai vs Swain Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Swain as Maokai
Tips for Playing as Maokai against Swain
Maokai's passive makes him extremely durable against focus fire from spells - so long as he can still basic attack something.
Try looking for flanks or other situations where Nature's Grasp is unavoidable or takes enemies by surprise.
Saplings can be tossed into brush for empowered effect - but don't stack well.
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.
Maokai vs Swain Counter Stats
How to Counter Swain with Maokai in LoL
The stats provided here clarify several critical Maokai vs. Swain counter statistics that can help you realize the differences and similarities between the two. Maokai’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Swain’s ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Maokai may be more central to his team's team fighting potential than Swain..
Maokai typically has a slightly smaller longest kill spree than his foe does. On average, he takes a similar amount of damage to Swain. This is usually reflective of different amounts of tankyness, but it can also show that the champion with increased health has less agility and thus is unable to flee from additional damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Maokai and Swain
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Who is Better, Maokai or Swain?
Both LoL champions are great. Both have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Maokai usually loses when taking on Swain, with a 47.6% win rate. As a result, Maokai makes a bad counter to Swain.
While Maokai does have a lower winrate compared to Swain, when facing one another, Maokai also has a much lower difficulty level that makes him a less complex champ to develop with. You should be very concerned when picking Maokai into Swain.
Additionally, Maokai has a great amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Swain. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when trying to counter champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Maokai 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 team members during teamfights.
Maokai is a trash counter for Swain. Make sure you focus your strategy on maximizing your gold and cs and taking out objectives. If you are able to do that, you should do very well as Maokai against Swain.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Maokai in order to counter Swain during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to gather a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you listen to the build and tips shown above, you will increase your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Maokai on average gets less CS relative to Swain. Champions who typically don't earn much CS usualy don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as sup champs. They are able to scale well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, often have to have many items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the values reported here to do well.
The ideal items to prioritize in your Maokai versus Swain build include Knight's Vow, Locket of the Iron Solari, and Solstice Sleigh. When Maokai used at least these three pieces in his build, he performed much better vs. Swain than with most other common item sets. In fact, Maokai had an average winrate of 47.6% when countering Swain with this build.
To have the best likelihood of coming out on top against Swain as Maokai, you should equip 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 builds players chose for Maokai vs Swain battles, this mixture of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 47.6% winrate overall.
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