Swain vs Fiora
How to Beat Fiora as Swain
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Swain vs Fiora Matchup Summary
Best Swain vs Fiora Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Fiora as Swain
Tips for Playing as Swain against Fiora
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.
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.
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.
Advice to Win Against Fiora
Duelist's Dance shows you where Fiora will try to attack from, so be ready to punish her when she tries.
Be careful when casting immobilizing disables on Fiora. If her Riposte is available, she can turn their power against you.
Swain vs Fiora Counter Stats
How to Counter Fiora with Swain in LoL
The stat comparisons shown on this page highlight several significant Swain against Fiora counter statistics that can help you distinguish the differences between the pair. As an example, Swain’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Fiora’s ratio of NaN, indicating that Swain may be more central to his team's team fighting effectiveness than Fiora. This observation is largely caused by the differences in assists.
Swain normally has a slightly smaller longest killing spree than his matchup does. Typically, he receives less damage than Fiora. This typically indicates differing health capacities; however, it can also imply that the champ with more HP has less mobility and thus is unable to flee from additional harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Swain and Fiora
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Who is Better, Swain or Fiora?
Both League of Legends champs are great. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Swain usually loses when taking on Fiora, with a 48.9% win rate. Thus, Swain makes a poor counter to Fiora.
While Swain does have a lower win rate than Fiora, when on opposite teams, Swain also has a much greater level of difficulty that makes him a more time consuming character to develop with. You should be careful when picking Swain into Fioraas 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 Fiora. 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 overall in League of Legends, in Swain vs Fiora matchups, Fiora is the better champion with a lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during team fights.
Swain is a somewhat poor counter to Fiora. You will do well by focussing your strategy on keeping up your gold and cs and taking out objectives. If you do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Swain against Fiora.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Swain to counter Fiora during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to pick up a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you listen to 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 most often picks up less CS as Fiora. Champions who typically don't take many minion kills often don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as sup champs. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually need many items to be effective. In either situation, try to surpass the numbers reported on this page to do well.
The ideal items to prioritize in your Swain versus Fiora build consist of Jak'Sho, The Protean, Rylai's Crystal Scepter, and Shard of True Ice. When Swain incorporated at least these three pieces in his build, he performed much better versus Fiora than with many other commonly used item sets. In fact, Swain boasted an average win rate of 48.9% battling Fiora with this build.
To have the highest chance of crushing Fiora as Swain, you should use the Conqueror, Presence of Mind, Legend: Tenacity, Last Stand, Conditioning, and Revitalize runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Of all the rune sets players chose for Swain vs Fiora counterpicks, this order of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 48.9% winrate overall.
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