Swain vs Illaoi
How to Beat Illaoi as Swain
based on 2,719 Swain vs Illaoi matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Swain vs Illaoi Matchup Summary
Best Swain vs Illaoi Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Illaoi as Swain
Tips for Playing as Swain against Illaoi
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 Illaoi
Killing Tentacles whenever possible will make it much easier to win a fight against Illaoi.
When your spirit gets pulled out, fight back if you can. Dealing damage to Illaoi reduces the spirit's duration.
Avoid grouping up for Leap of Faith to reduce the number of Tentacles available to Illaoi.
Swain vs Illaoi Counter Stats
How to Counter Illaoi with Swain in LoL
The stats provided here underscore some strategic Swain vs. Illaoi matchup statistics that can help you interpret the distinctions between the two. For instance, Swain’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Illaoi’s KDA ratio of NaN, indicating that Swain may be more central to his team's team fighting effectiveness than Illaoi. This observation is in large part a result of the differences in assists.
Swain normally has a similar longest killing spree as his matchup does. On average, he receives less damage than Illaoi. This often reflects different amounts of tankyness, but it can also imply that the one champion has less mobility and thus is not able to flee from additional damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Swain and Illaoi
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Who is Better, Swain or Illaoi?
Both League champs are great. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Swain usually wins when taking on Illaoi, with a 51.6% win rate. As a result, Swain makes a good counter for Illaoi.
While Swain does have a higher win rate than Illaoi, when facing one another, Swain also has a much greater difficulty level that makes him a more complex champ to learn. You should be careful when picking Swain into Illaoias his relative depth means you may not be able to unleash his full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Furthermore, Swain also has some amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Illaoi. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when fighting champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Swain vs Illaoi matchups, Swain is the better champion with a higher win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during teamfights.
Swain is a decent counter for Illaoi. Make sure you focus your gameplay on increasing your gold income and clearing objectives. If you are able to do that, you should hold your own as Swain against Illaoi.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Swain in order to counter Illaoi during both the lane 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 pay attention to the build and stats presented here, you should grow your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Swain most often accumulates less CS compared to Illaoi. Champs who on average don't acquire much CS typically don't need much CS to be effective, such as sup champs. They are capable of scaling properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually require several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the values reported here to do well.
The top items to use in your Swain versus Illaoi build include Malignance, Zhonya's Hourglass, and Liandry's Torment. When Swain combined at least these three items in his build, he did much better versus Illaoi than with most other commonly used counter builds. In fact, Swain had an average win rate of 51.6% when countering Illaoi with this build.
To have the greatest likelihood of defeating Illaoi 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. Of all the rune sets players chose for Swain vs Illaoi clashes, this mixture of runes yielded the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 51.6% winrate overall.
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