Nidalee vs Swain
How to Beat Swain as Nidalee
based on 973 Nidalee vs Swain matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Nidalee vs Swain Matchup Summary
Best Nidalee vs Swain Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Swain as Nidalee
Tips for Playing as Nidalee against Swain
Use brush to your advantage! Moving in and out of brush can heavily alter your effectiveness in battle.
Start team fights by harassing with your Javelin Toss, and then switch to cougar form to chase down Hunted targets.
Bushwhack traps deal damage based on their victim's current Health. Set them up in your team's backline before fights break out during sieges to help your team deal damage to the enemy frontline.
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.
Nidalee vs Swain Counter Stats
How to Counter Swain with Nidalee in LoL
The stats shown here show some valuable Nidalee vs. Swain counter stats that can help us explain the differences and similarities between the pair. As an example, Nidalee’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Swain’s KDA ratio of NaN, highlighting that Nidalee may be more central to her team's team fighting capacity than Swain..
Nidalee often has a slightly larger longest killing spree than her matchup does. On average, she takes a similar amount of damage to Swain. This often reflects differing health capacities, but it can also hint that the one champion has less agility and thus is not able to kite away from further damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Nidalee and Swain
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Who is Better, Nidalee or Swain?
Both League of Legends champs are great. Both champs have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Nidalee usually loses when playing against Swain, with a 42.0% win rate. Therefore, Nidalee makes a poor counter for Swain.
While Nidalee does have a much lower win rate compared to Swain, when facing one another, Nidalee also has a greater difficulty level that makes her a more difficult champion to pick up and master. You may get destroyed when picking Nidalee into Swainas her relative depth means that you may not be able to unleash her full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Additionally, Nidalee has almost no amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Swain. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when trying to counter champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Nidalee vs Swain matchups, Swain is the better champion with a much lower win rate, similar champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during team fights.
Nidalee is a garbage counter to Swain. You will do well by focussing your gameplay on increasing your gold and cs and taking out objectives. If you are able to do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Nidalee against Swain.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Nidalee in order to counter Swain during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you mind the build and tips displayed above, you will grow your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Nidalee often racks up less CS as Swain. Champs who typically don't take much CS usualy don't need 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, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually have to have several high cost items to be effective. In either situation, try to surpass the values displayed on this page to do well.
The ideal items to use in your Nidalee versus Swain build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Lich Bane, and Stormsurge. When Nidalee used at least these three pieces in her build, she performed much better versus Swain than with most other typical counter builds. In fact, Nidalee had an average win rate of 42.0% when playing against Swain with this build.
To have the highest likelihood of beating Swain as Nidalee, you should take the Dark Harvest, Sudden Impact, Eyeball Collection, Treasure Hunter, Transcendence, and Waterwalking runes from the Domination and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the runes players used for Nidalee vs Swain counter picks, this combo of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 42.0% winrate overall.
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