Swain vs Graves
How to Beat Graves as Swain
based on 6,054 Swain vs Graves matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Swain vs Graves Matchup Summary
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Guide to Countering Graves as Swain
Tips for Playing as Swain against Graves
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 Graves
Leaving the Smoke Screen's area of effect removes the harmful effect immediately.
Graves deals mostly physical damage so Armor is an effective counter.
Swain vs Graves Counter Stats
How to Counter Graves with Swain in LoL
The stat comparisons provided here clarify several critical Swain against Graves matchup stats that can help you understand the differences between these two champions. As an example, Swain’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Graves’s ratio of NaN, indicating that Swain may be more central to his team's team fighting capability than Graves..
Swain often has a slightly smaller longest killing spree than his counter does. Commonly, he takes a similar amount of damage to Graves. This typically indicates differing health capacities, but it can also imply that the champ with more HP has less agility and thus is not able to flee from further harm when poked or engaged.
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Who is Better, Swain or Graves?
Both LoL champs are great champions. Both champs have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Swain usually fairs equally well when playing against Graves, with a 49.1% win rate. Therefore, Swain makes an ok counter for Graves.
While Swain does have a lower win rate than Graves, when facing one another, Swain also has a much greater level of difficulty that makes him a more time consuming champ to pick up and master. You should be careful when picking Swain into Gravesas his relative depth means that you may not be able to unleash his full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Furthermore, Swain also has some amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Graves. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when fighting champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Swain vs Graves matchups, Graves is the better champ with a similar 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 for Graves. Make sure you focus your strategy on increasing your gold and cs and clearing objectives. If you do that, you should hold your own as Swain against Graves.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Swain in order to counter Graves 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 pay attention to the build and suggestions displayed here, you will increase your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Swain usually picks up more CS compared to Graves. Champions who on average don't acquire many minion kills typically don't need much CS to be effective, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are able to scale properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, often need a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to surpass the values displayed on this page to do well.
The best items to prioritize in your Swain versus Graves build include Frozen Heart, Rylai's Crystal Scepter, and Liandry's Torment. When Swain used at least these three items in his build, he performed significantly better against Graves than with most other typical builds. In fact, Swain boasted an average winrate of 49.1% battling Graves with these items in his kit.
To have the highest likelihood of annihilating Graves as Swain, you should use the Summon Aery, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Scorch, Conditioning, and Overgrowth runes from the Sorcery and Resolve rune sets. Of all the rune combinations players chose for Swain vs Graves LoL games, this order of runes resulted in the highest win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 49.1% winrate overall.
By default, tips, statistics, and builds on how to beat Graves as Swain are given for all skill levels combined. If you would like to scope the statistics and builds to an individual rank, you can use the selection menu earlier on the page.