Nocturne vs Swain
How to Beat Swain as Nocturne
based on 7,675 Nocturne vs Swain matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Nocturne vs Swain Matchup Summary
Best Nocturne vs Swain Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Swain as Nocturne
Tips for Playing as Nocturne against Swain
Use Shroud of Darkness in tandem with Paranoia's dash. Your opponents may panic and waste a critical disable on your spell shield.
Using Paranoia at a critical moment is well worth it even if you cannot use the dash.
Duskbringer isn't only an offensive ability. It can be used to close distance out of combat or escape from certain death.
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.
Nocturne vs Swain Counter Stats
How to Counter Swain with Nocturne in LoL
The stat comparisons shown on this page clarify some strategic Nocturne versus Swain counter statistics that may help you explain the differences and similarities between the two. For instance, Nocturne’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Swain’s KDA ratio of NaN, indicating that Nocturne may be more central to his team's team fighting capability than Swain..
Nocturne typically has a slightly larger longest killing spree than his foe does. Commonly, he receives more damage than Swain. This often reflects different amounts of tankyness; however, it can also illustrate that the one champ has less agility and thus is unable to kite away from further harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Nocturne and Swain
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Who is Better, Nocturne or Swain?
Both League of Legends champs are great. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Nocturne usually loses when taking on Swain, with a 48.9% win rate. As a result, Nocturne makes a bad counter to Swain.
While Nocturne does have a lower win rate compared to Swain, when on opposite teams, Nocturne also has a much lower learning curve that makes him a less difficult champion to pick up and master. You still need to be cautious when picking Nocturne into Swain.
Additionally, Nocturne has almost no amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Swain. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when fighting champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion overall in League of Legends, in Nocturne vs Swain matchups, Swain is the better champ with a lower win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during teamfights.
Nocturne is a somewhat poor counter for Swain. You will do well by focussing your gameplay on maximizing your gold income and taking out objectives. If you do that, you should do very well as Nocturne against Swain.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Nocturne to counter Swain during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you listen to the build and tips presented here, you will increase your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Nocturne on average picks up less CS as Swain. Champions who on average don't earn many minion kills often don't have to have much CS to be valuable teammates, such as sup champs. They are able to scale properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, often have to have several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to surpass the numbers displayed here to do well.
The most important items to use in your Nocturne versus Swain build include Guardian Angel, Experimental Hexplate, and Axiom Arc. When Nocturne incorporated at least these three items in his build, he did a lot better versus Swain than with many other typical item sets. In fact, Nocturne had an average winrate of 48.9% when playing against Swain with this counter build.
To have the greatest likelihood of annihilating Swain as Nocturne, you should take the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Last Stand, Eyeball Collection, and Ultimate Hunter runes from the Precision and Domination rune sets. Of all the rune combinations that we analyzed for Nocturne vs Swain battles, this set of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 48.9% win rate overall.
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