Swain vs Galio
How to Beat Galio as Swain
based on 4,119 Swain vs Galio matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Swain vs Galio Matchup Summary
Best Swain vs Galio Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Galio as Swain
Tips for Playing as Swain against Galio
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 Galio
Galio cannot traverse walls with Justice Punch.
Galio moves slower when he is charging Shield of Durand.
Hero's Entrance can be interrupted before Galio jumps into the air.
Swain vs Galio Counter Stats
How to Counter Galio with Swain in LoL
The stat comparisons provided here highlight several important Swain versus Galio matchup stats that may help you interpret the differences and similarities between the pair. Swain’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Galio’s ratio of NaN, showing that Swain may be more central to his team's team fighting capability than Galio..
Swain often has a similar longest killing spree as his matchup does. Commonly, he takes more damage than Galio. This commonly reflects different amounts of tankyness, but it can also imply that the champion with higher HP has less mobility and thus is unable to kite away from further harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Swain and Galio
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Who is Better, Swain or Galio?
Both League of Legends champs are great. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Swain usually wins when facing off against Galio, with a 52.2% win rate. Thus, Swain makes a good counter for Galio.
While Swain does have a higher win rate than Galio, when facing one another, Swain also has a much greater learning curve that makes him a more time consuming champ to pick up and master. You don't need to be too worried when picking Swain into Galioas his relative depth means that 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 Galio. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when facing champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion overall in League of Legends, in Swain vs Galio 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 late stage team fights.
Swain is a good counter to Galio. Focus your tactics on maximizing your gold income and taking out objectives. If you are able to do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Swain against Galio.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Swain in order to counter Galio during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to gather a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you mind the build and tips presented above, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Swain most often accumulates a similar amount of CS relative to Galio. Champions who typically don't acquire much CS usualy don't need 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, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually need a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the values shown on this page to do well.
The best items to focus on in your Swain versus Galio build include Rylai's Crystal Scepter, Riftmaker, and Liandry's Torment. When Swain used at least these three items in his build, he performed a lot better against Galio than with many other common counter builds. In fact, Swain boasted an average win rate of 52.2% when countering Galio with this build.
To have the greatest probability of vanquishing Galio as Swain, Swain players should take the Conqueror, Presence of Mind, Legend: Tenacity, Last Stand, Conditioning, and Overgrowth runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the runes players used for Swain vs Galio matchups, this blending of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 52.2% winrate overall.
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