Swain vs Lissandra
How to Beat Lissandra as Swain
based on 1,674 Swain vs Lissandra matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Swain vs Lissandra Matchup Summary
Best Swain vs Lissandra Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Lissandra as Swain
Tips for Playing as Swain against Lissandra
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 Lissandra
Lissandra's Ring of Frost has a long cooldown at early ranks; engage her while it's on cooldown.
Lissandra's Ice Shard only slows the first unit it hits. Approach Lissandra from behind your team's minions to avoid being slowed.
The best way to stop Lissandra from moving using her Glacial Path is to immobilize her before she reactivates it.
Swain vs Lissandra Counter Stats
How to Counter Lissandra with Swain in LoL
The stat comparisons shown here emphasize some critical Swain vs. Lissandra counter statistics that can help us realize the distinctions between the two. Swain’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Lissandra’s KDA ratio of NaN, showing that Swain may be more central to his team's team fighting effectiveness than Lissandra..
Swain typically has a similar longest kill spree as his matchup does. Commonly, he takes more damage than Lissandra. This often reflects differing health capacities, yet it can also indicate that the champ with increased health has less mobility and thus is not able to flee from further harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Swain and Lissandra
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Who is Better, Swain or Lissandra?
Both LoL champs are great champions. Both have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Swain usually wins when trying to fight Lissandra, with a 54.0% win rate. As a result, Swain makes a great counter for Lissandra.
While Swain does have a much higher win rate than Lissandra, when they face off with one another, Swain also has a greater level of difficulty that makes him a more complex character to pick up and master. You should be be fine when picking Swain into Lissandraas 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 Lissandra. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when fighting champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion overall in League of Legends, in Swain vs Lissandra 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 great counter to Lissandra. You will do well by focussing your gameplay on increasing your CS and destroying objectives. If you are able to do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Swain against Lissandra.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Swain in order to counter Lissandra during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to gather a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you mind the build and suggestions shown here, you will grow your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Swain typically racks up less CS compared to Lissandra. Champs who on average don't earn much CS typically don't need much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are able to scale properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically require 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 most crucial items to have in your Swain versus Lissandra build consist of Rylai's Crystal Scepter, Malignance, and Liandry's Torment. When Swain incorporated at least these three pieces in his build, he performed much better against Lissandra than with most other common builds. In fact, Swain had an average winrate of 54.0% when playing against Lissandra with these items in his kit.
To have the best likelihood of vanquishing Lissandra as Swain, Swain players should use the Electrocute, Cheap Shot, Eyeball Collection, Ultimate Hunter, Cosmic Insight, and Triple Tonic runes from the Domination and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the rune combinations we have analyed for Swain vs Lissandra LoL games, this sequence of runes resulted in the best win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 54.0% win rate overall.
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