Swain vs Diana
How to Beat Diana as Swain
based on 5,961 Swain vs Diana matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Swain vs Diana Matchup Summary
Best Swain vs Diana Counter Build
Items
Starter Items
Early Items
Core Swain Items
Optional Items
Summoner Spells
Skill Order
Runes
Guide to Countering Diana as Swain
Tips for Playing as Swain against Diana
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 Diana
Pale Cascade orbs only last a few seconds. Avoid Diana and engage her after the shield dissipates.
Diana can play very aggressively if she uses Lunar Rush without Moonlight, but you can punish her by slowing or stunning her when she has no way to get back into position.
Dodge Crescent Strike, or move to safety if you are affected by Moonlight.
Swain vs Diana Counter Stats
How to Counter Diana with Swain in LoL
The stats shown here highlight some strategic Swain versus Diana counter statistics that may help us realize the differences between the pair. As an example, Swain’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Diana’s ratio of NaN, highlighting that Swain may be more central to his team's team fighting capacity than Diana..
Swain usually has a slightly smaller longest kill spree than his matchup does. On average, he receives more damage than Diana. This is usually reflective of different amounts of tankyness, but it can also imply that the one champ has less mobility and thus is unable to escape further harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Swain and Diana
Damage Types Compared
Champion Playstyles Compared
Who is Better, Swain or Diana?
Both LoL champions are great champions. Both champs have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Swain usually wins when trying to fight Diana, with a 52.1% win rate. As a result, Swain makes a good counter for Diana.
While Swain does have a higher win rate compared to Diana, when on opposite teams, Swain also has a much greater difficulty level that makes him a more difficult character to learn. You should be be fine when picking Swain into Dianaas his relative depth means that you may not be able to reach his full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Additionally, Swain also has some amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Diana. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when fighting champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion in League of Legends, in Swain vs Diana 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 team members during teamfights.
Swain is an above average counter to Diana. Focus your tactics on maximizing your CS and clearing objectives. If you do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Swain against Diana.
Other Champion Matchups Against Swain
Additional Information for Swain Players
How We Calculated Our Swain vs Diana Build and Stats
Other Useful Resources
Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Swain to counter Diana during both the laning 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 listen to the build and stats presented above, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Swain usually gets a similar amount of CS as Diana. Champs who typically don't get much CS usualy don't have to have 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 large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically need several high cost items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the values reported here to do well.
The best items to use in your Swain versus Diana build include Rylai's Crystal Scepter, Malignance, and Riftmaker. When Swain combined at least these three pieces in his build, he performed much better countering Diana than with many other commonly used item sets. In fact, Swain boasted an average win rate of 52.1% when countering Diana with this counter build.
To have the highest probability of annihilating Diana as Swain, Swain players should equip the Summon Aery, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Scorch, Conditioning, and Overgrowth runes from the Sorcery and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the rune sets players chose for Swain vs Diana counter picks, this set of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 52.1% win rate overall.
If you need to see Swain x Diana tips and counter stats for a a particular skill level, please select one from the selection menu shown above. At first, the statistics and build suggestions given are computed using every match with data with both champs.