Swain vs Darius
How to Beat Darius as Swain
based on 5,059 Swain vs Darius matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Swain vs Darius Matchup Summary
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Guide to Countering Darius as Swain
Tips for Playing as Swain against Darius
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 Darius
When Darius's axe grab is on cooldown, he is vulnerable to harassment attacks.
Darius's ability to escape from fights is limited. If you have an advantage against him, press your lead.
Swain vs Darius Counter Stats
How to Counter Darius with Swain in LoL
The stats provided here show some valuable Swain versus Darius counter statistics that can help us grasp the differences and similarities between the pair. As an example, Swain’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Darius’s KDA ratio of NaN, highlighting that Swain may be more central to his team's team fighting capacity than Darius. This observation is in large part fueled by the differences in assists.
Swain normally has a slightly smaller longest killing spree than his matchup does. On average, he receives a similar amount of damage to Darius. This is usually reflective of differing health capacities, but it can also hint that the champ with increased HP has less mobility and thus is not able to flee from additional harm when poked or engaged.
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Who is Better, Swain or Darius?
Both League of Legends champions are great. Both champs have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Swain usually wins when playing against Darius, with a 51.3% win rate. Therefore, Swain makes a good counter for Darius.
While Swain does have a higher win rate compared to Darius, when facing one another, Swain also has a much greater difficulty level that makes him a more time consuming character to pick up and master. You still need to be cautious when picking Swain into Dariusas his relative depth means that you may not be able to reach his full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Additionally, Swain has some amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Darius. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, 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 Darius matchups, Swain is the better champion with a higher win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during teamfights.
Swain is a decent counter to Darius. Make sure you focus your play on increasing your CS and destroying objectives. If you are able to do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Swain against Darius.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Swain to counter Darius during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to gather a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and tips shown here, you will grow your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Swain on average accumulates less CS relative to Darius. Champions who typically don't earn much CS typically don't need much CS to be effective, such as sup champs. These kinds of champions are able to scale properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically have to have several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to surpass the numbers reported on this page to do well.
The most crucial items to use in your Swain versus Darius build include Rylai's Crystal Scepter, Zhonya's Hourglass, and Riftmaker. When Swain combined at least these three items in his build, he did a lot better against Darius than with most other typical item sets. In fact, Swain boasted an average win rate of 51.3% when playing against Darius with this build.
To have the highest probability of crushing Darius as Swain, you should use the Electrocute, Cheap Shot, Eyeball Collection, Ultimate Hunter, Cosmic Insight, and Triple Tonic runes from the Domination and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations players chose for Swain vs Darius clashes, this mixture of runes yielded the highest win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 51.3% win rate overall.
By default, tips, statistics, and builds on how to beat Darius as Swain are presented for all skill levels combined. If you would like to filter the statistics and builds to a specific player tier, you may use the selection menu located earlier in the counter matchup guide.