Nautilus vs Swain
How to Beat Swain as Nautilus
based on 6,306 Nautilus vs Swain matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Nautilus vs Swain Matchup Summary
Best Nautilus vs Swain Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Swain as Nautilus
Tips for Playing as Nautilus against Swain
While ganking, consider aiming Dredge Line at nearby terrain and following it up with Riptide for a higher hit rate.
Riptide has a delayed blast timing on activation - you can use this while running away or when enemies are incoming to serve as a deterrent.
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.
Nautilus vs Swain Counter Stats
How to Counter Swain with Nautilus in LoL
The stat comparisons provided here feature several influential Nautilus vs. Swain counter stats that may help you realize the differences between the pair. Nautilus’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Swain’s KDA ratio of NaN, highlighting that Nautilus may be more central to his team's team fighting effectiveness than Swain..
Nautilus often has a significantly smaller longest kill spree than his counter does. Typically, he receives less damage than Swain. This is usually reflective of different amounts of tankyness, yet it can also show that the champ with increased HP has less mobility and thus is not able to kite away from additional damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Nautilus and Swain
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Who is Better, Nautilus or Swain?
Both LoL champions are great champions. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Nautilus usually loses when taking on Swain, with a 43.7% win rate. As a result, Nautilus makes a bad counter for Swain.
While Nautilus does have a much lower winrate compared to Swain, when they face off with one another, Nautilus also has a lower level of difficulty that makes him a less time consuming champion to pick up and master. You should expect to face a difficult match when picking Nautilus into Swain.
Furthermore, Nautilus has a good amount of CC and other utility, 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 Nautilus vs Swain matchups, Swain is the better champ with a much lower win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during late stage team fights.
Nautilus is a terribly counter to Swain. Make sure you focus your play on increasing your gold income and destroying objectives. If you can do that, you should hold your own as Nautilus against Swain.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Nautilus in order to counter Swain during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to learn a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you listen to the build and suggestions presented here, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Nautilus on average picks up less CS relative to Swain. Champs who typically don't earn many minion kills usualy don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as supports. They are able to scale well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically have to have several high cost items to be effective. In either situation, try to surpass the numbers reported on this page to do well.
The most crucial items to have in your Nautilus versus Swain build include Zeke's Convergence, Knight's Vow, and Locket of the Iron Solari. When Nautilus used at least these three items in his build, he did much better when fighting Swain than with most other commonly used item sets. In fact, Nautilus boasted an average winrate of 43.7% when countering Swain with this counter build.
To have the greatest likelihood of beating Swain as Nautilus, Nautilus players should equip the Aftershock, Shield Bash, Conditioning, Revitalize, Legend: Tenacity, and Triumph runes from the Resolve and Precision rune sets. Out of all the runes players picked for Nautilus vs Swain matchups, this blending of runes yielded the highest win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 43.7% winrate overall.
By default, tips, statistics, and builds on how to beat Swain as Nautilus are shown for all ranked divisions. To scope the stats and builds to an individual player tier, you should use the selection menu earlier in the counter matchup guide.