Shaco vs Swain
How to Beat Swain as Shaco
based on 4,980 Shaco vs Swain matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Shaco vs Swain Matchup Summary
Best Shaco vs Swain Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Swain as Shaco
Tips for Playing as Shaco against Swain
Using Deceive over terrain can help you make a clean escape.
Try getting items with on-hit effects. These will also benefit your Hallucination clone.
Backstab's damage can be increased with increased Critical Damage effects like Infinity Edge.
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.
Shaco vs Swain Counter Stats
How to Counter Swain with Shaco in LoL
The stats provided here highlight several influential Shaco versus Swain counter statistics that may help you realize the differences between the pair. For instance, Shaco’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Swain’s ratio of NaN, showing that Shaco may be more central to his team's team fighting potential than Swain..
Shaco normally has a slightly larger longest kill spree than his counter does. Typically, he takes less damage than Swain. This typically indicates differing health capacities; however, it can also hint that the one champion has less agility and thus is not able to flee from further harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Shaco and Swain
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Who is Better, Shaco or Swain?
Both League of Legends champs are great. Both champs have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Shaco usually loses when playing against Swain, with a 47.9% win rate. Therefore, Shaco makes a bad counter to Swain.
While Shaco does have a lower win rate than Swain, when facing one another, Shaco also has a greater learning curve that makes him a more complex champ to learn. You should be very concerned when picking Shaco into Swainas his relative depth means that you may not be able to unleash his full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Furthermore, Shaco has some amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Swain. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when facing champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion in League of Legends, in Shaco vs Swain matchups, Swain is the better champion with a lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during late stage team fights.
Shaco is a garbage counter to Swain. Make sure you focus your play on increasing your gold income and clearing objectives. If you are able to do that, you should hold your own as Shaco against Swain.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Shaco in order to counter Swain during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to learn a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you mind the build and suggestions presented here, you should increase your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Shaco most often racks up less CS relative to Swain. Champs who on average don't earn many minion kills typically don't require 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 large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, often need many items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the numbers shown on this page to do well.
The best items to prioritize in your Shaco versus Swain build include Youmuu's Ghostblade, Serylda's Grudge, and Profane Hydra. When Shaco bought at least these three items in his build, he performed significantly better countering Swain than with many other commonly used builds. In fact, Shaco boasted an average winrate of 47.9% battling Swain with this build.
To have the best probability of crushing Swain as Shaco, you should use the Hail of Blades, Sudden Impact, Eyeball Collection, Relentless Hunter, Legend: Alacrity, and Coup de Grace runes from the Domination and Precision rune sets. Of all the rune sets players chose for Shaco vs Swain clashes, this mixture of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 47.9% win rate overall.
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