Swain vs Elise
How to Beat Elise as Swain
based on 1,008 Swain vs Elise matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Swain vs Elise Matchup Summary
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Guide to Countering Elise as Swain
Tips for Playing as Swain against Elise
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 Elise
Rappel has a long cooldown. Elise is vulnerable after she has used it.
Elise's Spider Form is more dangerous when you are at low health, and her Human Form more potent when you are at high health.
Rappel will only move Elise straight up and down unless she can descend upon an enemy unit.
Swain vs Elise Counter Stats
How to Counter Elise with Swain in LoL
The stats shown on this page highlight several influential Swain vs. Elise counter statistics that can help us realize the differences and similarities between the pair. Swain’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Elise’s ratio of NaN, indicating that Swain may be more central to his team's team fighting potential than Elise..
Swain normally has a slightly smaller longest killing spree than his enemy does. On average, he receives a similar amount of damage to Elise. This often reflects differing health capacities; however, it can also illustrate that the champion with increased health has less mobility and thus is unable to escape additional harm when engaged or poked.
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Who is Better, Swain or Elise?
Both League of Legends champions are great. Both have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Swain usually wins when facing off against Elise, with a 51.8% win rate. Thus, Swain makes a good counter for Elise.
While Swain does have a higher win rate than Elise, when on opposite teams, Swain also has a lower level of difficulty that makes him a less time consuming character to learn and master. You should be careful when picking Swain into Eliseas his relative depth means you may not be able to unleash his full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Additionally, Swain also has some amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Elise. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when trying to counter champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Swain vs Elise matchups, Swain is the better champion with a higher win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during teamfights.
Swain is a decent counter to Elise. Make sure you focus your actions on increasing your gold and cs and taking out objectives. If you can do that, you should hold your own as Swain against Elise.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Swain in order to counter Elise during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to learn a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you mind the build and tips displayed above, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Swain often racks up much more CS as Elise. Champions who typically don't take much CS often don't have to have much CS to be effective, such as supports. They are able to scale well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically have to have many items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the numbers displayed here to do well.
The top items to prioritize in your Swain versus Elise build include Rylai's Crystal Scepter, Malignance, and Liandry's Torment. When Swain used at least these three pieces in his build, he performed significantly better when fighting Elise than with many other common item sets. In fact, Swain had an average winrate of 51.8% battling Elise with these items in his kit.
To have the highest probability of coming out on top against Elise as Swain, Swain players should use the Conqueror, Presence of Mind, Legend: Tenacity, Last Stand, Conditioning, and Overgrowth runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Of all the runes players used for Swain vs Elise matchups, this set of runes yielded the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 51.8% winrate overall.
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