Swain vs Lissandra
How to Beat Lissandra as Swain
based on 3,202 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.
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 Lissandra
Lissandra's Ring of Frost has a long cooldown at early ranks; engage her while it's on cooldown.
The best way to stop Lissandra from moving using her Glacial Path is to immobilize her before she reactivates it.
Lissandra's Ice Shard only slows the first unit it hits. Approach Lissandra from behind your team's minions to avoid being slowed.
Swain vs Lissandra Counter Stats
How to Counter Lissandra with Swain in LoL
The stats shown on this page emphasize several strategic Swain against Lissandra matchup statistics that can help you realize the differences between this set of champions. As an example, Swain’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Lissandra’s KDA ratio of NaN, highlighting that Swain may be more central to his team's team fighting capability than Lissandra..
Swain often has a similar longest kill spree as his enemy does. On average, he receives more damage than Lissandra. This commonly reflects differing health capacities, yet it can also show that the one champ has less agility and thus is unable to escape additional harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Swain and Lissandra
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Who is Better, Swain or Lissandra?
Both League champions are great champions. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Swain usually wins when playing against Lissandra, with a 54.1% win rate. Thus, Swain makes a great counter for Lissandra.
While Swain does have a much higher winrate compared to Lissandra, when they face off with one another, Swain also has a greater learning curve that makes him a more complex character to pick up and master. You don't need to be too worried 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.
Moreover, Swain has some amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Lissandra. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when fighting champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion overall in League of Legends, in Swain vs Lissandra matchups, Swain is the better champion with a noticably higher win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during team fights.
Swain is a great counter for Lissandra. Make sure you focus your gameplay on keeping up your CS and destroying objectives. If you can 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
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Swain to counter Lissandra during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to pick up a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you listen to the build and stats shown above, you should increase your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Swain typically accumulates less CS relative to Lissandra. Champions who typically don't acquire much CS often don't require much CS to be effective, such as supports. They are able to scale properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, often require several high cost items to be effective. In either situation, try to surpass the numbers shown here to do well.
The best items to focus on in your Swain versus Lissandra build include Liandry's Anguish, Rylai's Crystal Scepter, and Zhonya's Hourglass. When Swain combined at least these three items in his build, he did significantly better when facing Lissandra than with most other common counter builds. In fact, Swain boasted an average win rate of 54.1% when playing against Lissandra with this build.
To have the best likelihood of annihilating Lissandra as Swain, Swain players should equip the Electrocute, Cheap Shot, Eyeball Collection, Ultimate Hunter, Coup de Grace, and Presence of Mind runes from the Domination and Precision rune sets. Out of all the runes we have analyed for Swain vs Lissandra battles, this sequence of runes yielded the best win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 54.1% win rate overall.
By default, tips, statistics, and builds on how to beat Lissandra as Swain are given for all ranked divisions combined. If you would like to scope the statistics and builds to an individual skill level, you should use the selection menu located at the top of this page.