Swain vs Brand
How to Beat Brand as Swain
based on 8,999 Swain vs Brand matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Swain vs Brand Matchup Summary
Best Swain vs Brand Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Brand as Swain
Tips for Playing as Swain against Brand
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 Brand
Brand's passive allows him to excel against teams that cluster together. Be sure to split up against him.
Brand must land an ability before his combo is able to get started. Dodging his Sear or Pillar of Flame will disrupt his rhythm.
Try to move away from allies when you see Pyroclasm being cast. The initial missile speed is slow, which should give your team time to react.
Swain vs Brand Counter Stats
How to Counter Brand with Swain in LoL
The stat comparisons shown here show several vital Swain against Brand counter stats that can help us explain the differences between the two. For instance, Swain’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Brand’s KDA ratio of NaN, highlighting that Swain may be more central to his team's team fighting potential than Brand..
Swain often has a similar longest kill spree as his counter does. On average, he takes more damage than Brand. This commonly reflects differing health capacities; however, it can also show that the one champ has less mobility and thus is unable to flee from additional harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Swain and Brand
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Who is Better, Swain or Brand?
Both League of Legends champions are great. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Swain usually loses when playing against Brand, with a 47.8% win rate. Therefore, Swain makes a bad counter to Brand.
While Swain does have a lower win rate compared to Brand, when on opposite teams, Swain also has a much greater level of difficulty that makes him a more difficult champion to pick up and master. You may get destroyed when picking Swain into Brandas his relative depth means that you may not be able to unleash his full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Additionally, Swain has some amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Brand. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when trying to counter champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion overall in League of Legends, in Swain vs Brand matchups, Brand is the better champ 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.
Swain is a trash counter for Brand. Make sure you focus your strategy on increasing your gold and cs and taking out objectives. If you are able to do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Swain against Brand.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Swain to counter Brand during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to gather a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and suggestions presented here, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Swain most often accumulates more CS relative to Brand. Champions who typically don't acquire many minion kills typically don't have to have much CS to be effective, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are able to scale well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually have to have several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to surpass the numbers reported here to do well.
The most important items to have in your Swain versus Brand build consist of Rylai's Crystal Scepter, Malignance, and Riftmaker. When Swain incorporated at least these three items in his build, he did a lot better when facing Brand than with most other typical item sets. In fact, Swain boasted an average win rate of 47.8% when countering Brand with this counter build.
To have the highest probability of annihilating Brand as Swain, you should take the Summon Aery, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Scorch, Conditioning, and Overgrowth runes from the Sorcery and Resolve rune sets. Of all the rune combinations players chose for Swain vs Brand counterpicks, this order of runes yielded the best win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 47.8% winrate overall.
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