Swain vs Master Yi
How to Beat Master Yi as Swain
based on 6,888 Swain vs Master Yi matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Swain vs Master Yi Matchup Summary
Best Swain vs Master Yi Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Master Yi as Swain
Tips for Playing as Swain against Master Yi
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 Master Yi
If Master Yi tries to farm with Alpha Strike, hit him a few times so he has to use mana with Meditate to heal.
Although Master Yi cannot be slowed while using Highlander, other disables can stop him in his tracks.
Meditate is an effective method of healing damage over time, but Master Yi is susceptible to coordinated team ganks early in the game.
Swain vs Master Yi Counter Stats
How to Counter Master Yi with Swain in LoL
The stats provided here highlight several influential Swain against Master Yi matchup stats that can help us grasp the distinctions between the pair. Swain’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Master Yi’s KDA ratio of NaN, indicating that Swain may be more central to his team's team fighting capability than Master Yi. This observation is in large part caused by the differences in assists.
Swain usually has a slightly smaller longest killing spree than his opponent does. Typically, he takes a similar amount of damage to Master Yi. This typically indicates differing health capacities, but it can also show that the champion with more HP has less mobility and thus is unable to flee from further damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Swain and Master Yi
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Who is Better, Swain or Master Yi?
Both LoL champions are great champions. Both have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Swain usually loses when facing off against Master Yi, with a 48.1% win rate. Therefore, Swain makes a bad counter for Master Yi.
While Swain does have a lower win rate than Master Yi, when on opposite teams, Swain also has a much greater level of difficulty that makes him a more complex character to develop with. You still need to be cautious when picking Swain into Master Yias 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 CC and other utility, a similar amount to Master Yi. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when fighting champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion overall in League of Legends, in Swain vs Master Yi matchups, Master Yi is the better champ with a lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during teamfights.
Swain is a somewhat poor counter for Master Yi. Make sure you focus your actions on keeping up your gold and cs and destroying objectives. If you are able to do that, you should do very well as Swain against Master Yi.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Swain to counter Master Yi during both the early game 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 shown above, you should increase your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Swain usually racks up more CS as Master Yi. Champs who on average don't earn much CS typically don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as sup champs. These kinds of champions are able to scale well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, often need a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the numbers shown here to do well.
The best items to focus on in your Swain versus Master Yi build consist of Malignance, Zhonya's Hourglass, and Riftmaker. When Swain incorporated at least these three items in his build, he performed significantly better when fighting Master Yi than with many other commonly used item sets. In fact, Swain boasted an average win rate of 48.1% battling Master Yi with this build.
To have the greatest likelihood of coming out on top against Master Yi as Swain, Swain players should use the Summon Aery, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Scorch, Conditioning, and Overgrowth runes from the Sorcery and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations that we analyzed for Swain vs Master Yi clashes, this order of runes resulted in the best win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 48.1% win rate overall.
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