Shyvana vs Swain
How to Beat Swain as Shyvana
based on 2,010 Shyvana vs Swain matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Shyvana vs Swain Matchup Summary
Best Shyvana vs Swain Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Swain as Shyvana
Tips for Playing as Shyvana against Swain
It can be valuable to purchase one of the items that can slow enemies: Frozen Mallet, Dead Man's Plate, or Entropy.
Shyvana's abilities all benefit from attacking units. As a result, Attack Speed items are more valuable on her than most champions.
Burnout is an ideal choice for jungling. Monsters will be hit by the full duration, and the speed boost improves her ganking potential.
Flame Breath is great to level-up against difficult lane opponents.
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.
Shyvana vs Swain Counter Stats
How to Counter Swain with Shyvana in LoL
The stat comparisons shown on this page clarify some important Shyvana vs. Swain matchup statistics that may help us interpret the distinctions between the two. Shyvana’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Swain’s KDA ratio of NaN, showing that Shyvana may be more central to her team's team fighting capacity than Swain..
Shyvana normally has a similar longest killing spree as her enemy does. Typically, she takes more damage than Swain. This often reflects different amounts of tankyness, but it can also imply that the champion with higher HP has less mobility and thus is unable to flee from further damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Shyvana and Swain
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Who is Better, Shyvana or Swain?
Both League of Legends champions are great. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Shyvana usually fairs equally well when playing against Swain, with a 49.2% win rate. Therefore, Shyvana makes an ok counter to Swain.
While Shyvana does have a lower win rate than Swain, when they face off with one another, Shyvana also has a much lower difficulty level that makes her a less difficult character to learn and master. You should be careful when picking Shyvana into Swain.
Furthermore, Shyvana also has almost no 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 Shyvana vs Swain matchups, Swain is the better champion with a similar win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during teamfights.
Shyvana is a somewhat poor counter for Swain. You will do well by focussing your play on maximizing your gold and cs and taking out objectives. If you do that, you should do very well as Shyvana against Swain.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Shyvana 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 lessons on this matchup. If you listen to the build and suggestions shown here, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Shyvana on average accumulates a similar amount of CS as Swain. Champions who typically don't get many minion kills usualy don't need much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, often have to have a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to exceed the numbers shown here to do well.
The ideal items to prioritize in your Shyvana versus Swain build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Nashor's Tooth, and Stormsurge. When Shyvana used at least these three items in her build, she performed a lot better vs. Swain than with many other typical counter builds. In fact, Shyvana boasted an average win rate of 49.2% when countering Swain with this build.
To have the highest likelihood of annihilating Swain as Shyvana, Shyvana players should use the Press the Attack, Triumph, Legend: Tenacity, Last Stand, Conditioning, and Unflinching runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Of all the rune sets players chose for Shyvana vs Swain matchups, this order of runes yielded the best win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 49.2% winrate overall.
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