Swain vs Malphite
How to Beat Malphite as Swain
based on 5,587 Swain vs Malphite matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Swain vs Malphite Matchup Summary
Best Swain vs Malphite Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Malphite as Swain
Tips for Playing as Swain against Malphite
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 Malphite
If you're a physical damage character stay behind your allies when fighting Malphite. Ground Slam can significantly reduce your damage output.
Malphite is one of a couple tanks who are capable of jungling. Watch out if he gets Smite.
Swain vs Malphite Counter Stats
How to Counter Malphite with Swain in LoL
The stats shown here show some significant Swain versus Malphite counter statistics that can help you interpret the differences between these two champions. For instance, Swain’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Malphite’s KDA ratio of NaN, showing that Swain may be more central to his team's team fighting capacity than Malphite..
Swain normally has a similar longest killing spree as his matchup does. Typically, he receives more damage than Malphite. This often reflects differing health capacities, but it can also indicate that the champ with increased HP has less agility and thus is unable to kite away from further harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Swain and Malphite
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Who is Better, Swain or Malphite?
Both LoL champions are great. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Swain usually wins when facing off against Malphite, with a 54.6% win rate. Therefore, Swain makes a great counter for Malphite.
While Swain does have a much higher winrate compared to Malphite, when on opposite teams, Swain also has a much greater level of difficulty that makes him a more challenging character to pick up and master. You should be be fine when picking Swain into Malphiteas his relative depth means you may not be able to reach his full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Furthermore, Swain also has some amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Malphite. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when trying to counter champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion in League of Legends, in Swain vs Malphite 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 for Malphite. Make sure you focus your gameplay on maximizing your gold income and taking out objectives. If you do that, you should hold your own as Swain against Malphite.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Swain in order to counter Malphite during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you mind the build and suggestions displayed above, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Swain usually gets a similar amount of CS compared to Malphite. Champs who on average don't earn many minion kills typically don't have to have much CS to be effective, such as sup champs. These kinds of champions are able to scale properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, often need several high cost items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the values displayed on this page to do well.
The best items to have in your Swain versus Malphite build include Rylai's Crystal Scepter, Malignance, and Riftmaker. When Swain incorporated at least these three items in his build, he performed much better vs Malphite than with most other common builds. In fact, Swain had an average win rate of 54.6% when playing against Malphite with this build.
To have the best likelihood of crushing Malphite as Swain, Swain players should equip the Summon Aery, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Scorch, Conditioning, and Overgrowth runes from the Sorcery and Resolve rune sets. Of all the rune sets that we analyzed for Swain vs Malphite face-offs, this combo of runes resulted in the best win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 54.6% winrate overall.
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