Swain vs Aphelios
How to Beat Aphelios as Swain
based on 3,272 Swain vs Aphelios matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Swain vs Aphelios Matchup Summary
Best Swain vs Aphelios Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Aphelios as Swain
Tips for Playing as Swain against Aphelios
While laning, try to use Death's Hand's piercing damage to damage opponents from a safe distance.
Vision of Empire is quite difficult to land on its own, look for skirmishes around the map where enemies may be distracted or crowd controlled so you can land it more easily.
If you're having trouble rooting an enemy with Nevermove, try throwing it at opponents when they are near their minions so the explosion surprises them.
Demonic Ascension may make Swain very hard to kill but he's pretty easy to get away from. Try building items that can slow opponents to keep them in range if their mobility is overwhelming.
Advice to Win Against Aphelios
Each of Aphelios' weapons have different weaknesses, try to exploit the ones that work best for your champion. Watch out for the purple Gravity gun, it can root you.
Swain vs Aphelios Counter Stats
How to Counter Aphelios with Swain in LoL
The stats shown here show several strategic Swain vs. Aphelios counter stats that can help you distinguish the differences between the pair. For instance, Swain’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Aphelios’s ratio of NaN, showing that Swain may be more central to his team's team fighting capability than Aphelios. This observation is in large part caused by the differences in assists.
Swain often has a slightly smaller longest killing spree than his enemy does. Typically, he takes more damage than Aphelios. This is usually reflective of differing health capacities; however, it can also show that the one champ has less mobility and thus is unable to flee from further harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Swain and Aphelios
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Who is Better, Swain or Aphelios?
Both LoL champions are great champions. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Swain usually fairs equally well when taking on Aphelios, with a 50.5% win rate. Thus, Swain makes an ok counter to Aphelios.
While Swain does have a higher winrate than Aphelios, when facing one another, Swain also has a lower difficulty level that makes him a less difficult character to learn and master. You should be careful when picking Swain into Apheliosas his relative depth means you may not be able to reach his full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Additionally, Swain also has some amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Aphelios. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when facing champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion in League of Legends, in Swain vs Aphelios matchups, Swain is the better champion with a similar win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during teamfights.
Swain is a decent counter for Aphelios. Make sure you focus your play on increasing your CS and destroying objectives. If you are able to do that, you should hold your own as Swain against Aphelios.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Swain to counter Aphelios during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to learn a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you listen to the build and tips displayed here, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Swain on average gets less CS as Aphelios. Champions who typically don't acquire many minion kills often don't need much CS to be effective, such as supports. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, often require several high cost items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the values shown here to do well.
The ideal items to have in your Swain versus Aphelios build include Rylai's Crystal Scepter, Malignance, and Riftmaker. When Swain included at least these three pieces in his build, he performed significantly better versus Aphelios than with most other typical builds. In fact, Swain had an average win rate of 50.5% when playing against Aphelios with this build.
To have the greatest likelihood of beating Aphelios as Swain, Swain players should take the Electrocute, Cheap Shot, Eyeball Collection, Ultimate Hunter, Coup de Grace, and Presence of Mind runes from the Domination and Precision rune sets. Of all the rune combinations we have analyed for Swain vs Aphelios counter picks, this order of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 50.5% winrate overall.
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