Swain vs Blitzcrank
How to Beat Blitzcrank as Swain
based on 5,440 Swain vs Blitzcrank matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Swain vs Blitzcrank Matchup Summary
Best Swain vs Blitzcrank Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Blitzcrank as Swain
Tips for Playing as Swain against Blitzcrank
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 Blitzcrank
Staying behind creeps can prevent you from being Rocket Grabbed. Blitzcrank's Rocket Grab only pulls the first enemy target it encounters.
Blitzcrank's passive Mana Barrier grants him a shield when he is low on health.
Swain vs Blitzcrank Counter Stats
How to Counter Blitzcrank with Swain in LoL
The stats shown here underscore some strategic Swain vs. Blitzcrank matchup statistics that can help us interpret the distinctions between this pair of champions. For instance, Swain’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Blitzcrank’s KDA ratio of NaN, indicating that Swain may be more central to his team's team fighting capacity than Blitzcrank. This observation is in large part a result of the difference in kills.
Swain normally has a much larger longest killing spree than his foe does. Commonly, he takes more damage than Blitzcrank. This is usually reflective of differing health capacities; however, it can also imply that the champion with increased HP has less agility and thus is not able to escape further harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Swain and Blitzcrank
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Who is Better, Swain or Blitzcrank?
Both LoL champs are great champions. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Swain usually wins when playing against Blitzcrank, with a 52.8% win rate. Thus, Swain makes a good counter to Blitzcrank.
While Swain does have a higher winrate compared to Blitzcrank, when facing one another, Swain also has a much greater difficulty level that makes him a more complex character to pick up and master. You don't need to be too worried when picking Swain into Blitzcrankas his relative depth means you may not be able to unleash his full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Additionally, Swain also has some amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Blitzcrank. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when trying to counter champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion in League of Legends, in Swain vs Blitzcrank matchups, Swain is the better champ with a noticably higher win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during team fights.
Swain is a good counter to Blitzcrank. You will do well by focussing your play on maximizing your gold income and taking out objectives. If you do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Swain against Blitzcrank.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Swain to counter Blitzcrank during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to gather a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you mind the build and suggestions presented above, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Swain often picks up much more CS compared to Blitzcrank. Champs who on average don't get much CS often don't have to have much CS to be effective, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, often require a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the numbers reported here to do well.
The ideal items to use in your Swain versus Blitzcrank build include Malignance, Riftmaker, and Liandry's Torment. When Swain included at least these three pieces in his build, he performed much better when facing Blitzcrank than with many other commonly used builds. In fact, Swain boasted an average winrate of 52.8% when countering Blitzcrank with these items in his kit.
To have the highest likelihood of coming out on top against Blitzcrank as Swain, Swain players should take the Summon Aery, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Scorch, Conditioning, and Overgrowth runes from the Sorcery and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations players chose for Swain vs Blitzcrank matchups, this mix of runes yielded the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 52.8% win rate overall.
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