Swain vs Aurelion Sol
How to Beat Aurelion Sol as Swain
based on 2,363 Swain vs Aurelion Sol matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Swain vs Aurelion Sol Matchup Summary
Best Swain vs Aurelion Sol Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Aurelion Sol as Swain
Tips for Playing as Swain against Aurelion Sol
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 Aurelion Sol
He gains speed while chasing in a straight line, but taking damage makes him lose that momentum.
Try to get inside his orbit, since his stars can't hurt you up close.
His stars disappear while stunned or silenced, giving you an easy opportunity to fight him.
His Starsurge ability can grow to cover a huge area - don't stay in the same place too long!
Swain vs Aurelion Sol Counter Stats
How to Counter Aurelion Sol with Swain in LoL
The stat comparisons shown on this page show some valuable Swain versus Aurelion Sol counter statistics that can help you understand the differences and similarities between the two. Swain’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Aurelion Sol’s KDA ratio of NaN, highlighting that Swain may be more central to his team's team fighting potential than Aurelion Sol..
Swain often has a slightly smaller longest kill spree than his opponent does. On average, he receives more damage than Aurelion Sol. This often reflects differing health capacities, but it can also indicate that the champ with more health has less agility and thus is not able to flee from further harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Swain and Aurelion Sol
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Who is Better, Swain or Aurelion Sol?
Both League of Legends champions are great champions. Both have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Swain usually wins when trying to fight Aurelion Sol, with a 51.5% win rate. Thus, Swain makes a good counter for Aurelion Sol.
While Swain does have a higher win rate than Aurelion Sol, when facing one another, Swain also has a greater learning curve that makes him a more time consuming character to learn and master. You still need to be cautious when picking Swain into Aurelion Solas his relative depth means that you may not be able to unleash his full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Additionally, Swain also has some amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Aurelion Sol. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when facing champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Swain vs Aurelion Sol matchups, Swain is the better champ with a higher win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during late stage team fights.
Swain is a decent counter for Aurelion Sol. Make sure you focus your strategy on keeping up your gold and cs and destroying objectives. If you do that, you should do very well as Swain against Aurelion Sol.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Swain to counter Aurelion Sol during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to pick up a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you listen to the build and suggestions shown above, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Swain usually picks up less CS relative to Aurelion Sol. Champions who typically don't earn much CS usualy don't need much CS to be effective, such as supports. These kinds of champions are able to scale well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually need many items to be effective. In either situation, try to surpass the values shown on this page to do well.
The best items to have in your Swain versus Aurelion Sol build consist of Zhonya's Hourglass, Zaz'Zak's Realmspike, and Liandry's Torment. When Swain combined at least these three items in his build, he did significantly better countering Aurelion Sol than with most other common counter builds. In fact, Swain had an average winrate of 51.5% when playing against Aurelion Sol with these items in his kit.
To have the greatest chance of coming out on top against Aurelion Sol as Swain, Swain players should equip the Conqueror, Presence of Mind, Legend: Tenacity, Last Stand, Conditioning, and Overgrowth runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the runes we have analyed for Swain vs Aurelion Sol clashes, this sequence of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 51.5% winrate overall.
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