Miss Fortune vs Swain
How to Beat Swain as Miss Fortune
based on 20,030 Miss Fortune vs Swain matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Miss Fortune vs Swain Matchup Summary
Best Miss Fortune vs Swain Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Swain as Miss Fortune
Tips for Playing as Miss Fortune against Swain
Miss Fortune ramps up speed if she hasn't recently taken damage. Avoid getting hit to move very fast.
Use Double Up on the furthest enemy minion if enemy champions are hiding in back; it will bounce to them for lots of damage.
Make sure to utilize Love Tap while Strut is on cooldown to maximize the active's availability.
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.
Miss Fortune vs Swain Counter Stats
How to Counter Swain with Miss Fortune in LoL
The stats provided here show several valuable Miss Fortune against Swain counter stats that can help you understand the differences between the pair. For instance, Miss Fortune’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Swain’s ratio of NaN, indicating that Miss Fortune may be more central to her team's team fighting effectiveness than Swain. This observation is in large part fueled by the difference in kills.
Miss Fortune usually has a slightly larger longest kill spree than her counter does. Commonly, she receives less damage than Swain. This commonly reflects differing health capacities, but it can also indicate that the one champion has less agility and thus is not able to kite away from further harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Miss Fortune and Swain
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Who is Better, Miss Fortune or Swain?
Both League champions are great. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Miss Fortune usually wins when trying to fight Swain, with a 51.3% win rate. Thus, Miss Fortune makes a good counter to Swain.
While Miss Fortune does have a higher win rate compared to Swain, when they face off with one another, Miss Fortune also has a much lower level of difficulty that makes her a less complex champion to learn and master. You should be careful when picking Miss Fortune into Swain.
Furthermore, Miss Fortune also has only a small amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Swain. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when facing champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion overall in League of Legends, in Miss Fortune vs Swain matchups, Miss Fortune is the better champion with a higher win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during teamfights.
Miss Fortune is a decent counter to Swain. Focus your strategy on maximizing your gold income and clearing objectives. If you can do that, you should do very well as Miss Fortune against Swain.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Miss Fortune to counter Swain during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to learn a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you mind the build and suggestions presented above, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Miss Fortune typically gets more CS compared to Swain. Champs who on average don't take much CS usualy don't need much CS to be valuable teammates, such as supports. They are capable of scaling properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually require several high cost items to be effective. In either situation, try to exceed the values reported on this page to do well.
The most important items to focus on in your Miss Fortune versus Swain build consist of Bloodthirster, Youmuu's Ghostblade, and Edge of Night. When Miss Fortune bought at least these three items in her build, she did a lot better vs. Swain than with most other typical counter builds. In fact, Miss Fortune boasted an average win rate of 51.3% battling Swain with this counter build.
To have the highest likelihood of annihilating Swain as Miss Fortune, Miss Fortune players should equip the First Strike, Magical Footwear, Biscuit Delivery, Cosmic Insight, Manaflow Band, and Gathering Storm runes from the Inspiration and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the rune builds players chose for Miss Fortune vs Swain counter picks, this blending of runes yielded the best win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 51.3% win rate overall.
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