Seraphine vs Swain
How to Beat Swain as Seraphine
based on 6,717 Seraphine vs Swain matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Seraphine vs Swain Matchup Summary
Best Seraphine vs Swain Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Swain as Seraphine
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.
Seraphine vs Swain Counter Stats
How to Counter Swain with Seraphine in LoL
The stat comparisons shown here emphasize several influential Seraphine against Swain matchup statistics that can help us realize the differences and similarities between this set of champions. Seraphine’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Swain’s KDA ratio of NaN, highlighting that Seraphine may be more central to her team's team fighting effectiveness than Swain..
Seraphine often has a slightly smaller longest killing spree than her counter does. On average, she receives less damage than Swain. This typically indicates differing health capacities, but it can also indicate that the one champ has less mobility and thus is not able to flee from further damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Seraphine and Swain
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Who is Better, Seraphine or Swain?
Both League of Legends champions are great. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Seraphine usually fairs equally well when facing off against Swain, with a 49.1% win rate. Thus, Seraphine makes an ok counter for Swain.
While Seraphine does have a lower winrate than Swain, when facing one another, Seraphine also has a much lower learning curve that makes her a less difficult champ to learn and master. You still need to be cautious when picking Seraphine into Swain.
Furthermore, Seraphine also has a very large amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Swain. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when fighting champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion overall in League of Legends, in Seraphine vs Swain matchups, Swain is the better champ with a similar win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during team fights.
Seraphine is a somewhat poor counter to Swain. You will do well by focussing your tactics on increasing your gold and cs and destroying objectives. If you are able to do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Seraphine against Swain.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Seraphine to counter Swain during both the lane 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 pay attention to the build and stats presented above, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Seraphine usually gets a similar amount of CS relative to Swain. Champions who on average don't take much CS usualy don't need much CS to be effective, such as support champions. They are able to scale well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically require many items to be effective. In either case, try to exceed the values shown here to do well.
The best items to have in your Seraphine versus Swain build consist of Seraph's Embrace, Celestial Opposition, and Moonstone Renewer. When Seraphine bought at least these three items in her build, she did a lot better versus Swain than with most other commonly used item sets. In fact, Seraphine had an average win rate of 49.1% battling Swain with this build.
To have the highest probability of defeating Swain as Seraphine, Seraphine players should equip the Summon Aery, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Gathering Storm, Presence of Mind, and Coup de Grace runes from the Sorcery and Precision rune sets. Of all the rune combinations players chose for Seraphine vs Swain counter picks, this blending of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 49.1% win rate overall.
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