Swain vs Wukong
How to Beat Wukong as Swain
based on 1,567 Swain vs Wukong matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Swain vs Wukong Matchup Summary
Best Swain vs Wukong Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Wukong as Swain
Tips for Playing as Swain against Wukong
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 Wukong
Wukong becomes tougher to kill when surrounded by his enemies. Try to isolate him to gain an advantage.
Wukong will often use Decoy after Nimbus Strike. Try delaying your abilities by a short amount of time to ensure that you're hitting the real Wukong.
Swain vs Wukong Counter Stats
How to Counter Wukong with Swain in LoL
The stats shown here highlight several critical Swain versus Wukong matchup stats that can help us grasp the differences between this set of champs. Swain’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Wukong’s KDA ratio of NaN, indicating that Swain may be more central to his team's team fighting effectiveness than Wukong..
Swain normally has a similar longest killing spree as his matchup does. Typically, he takes a similar amount of damage to Wukong. This typically indicates differing health capacities, but it can also hint that the one champion has less agility and thus is not able to kite away from further harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Swain and Wukong
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Who is Better, Swain or Wukong?
Both League of Legends champs are great champions. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Swain usually wins when taking on Wukong, with a 52.4% win rate. Therefore, Swain makes a good counter for Wukong.
While Swain does have a higher win rate than Wukong, when facing one another, Swain also has a much greater learning curve that makes him a more complex character to develop with. You don't need to be too worried when picking Swain into Wukongas his relative depth means you may not be able to unleash his full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Moreover, Swain also has some amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Wukong. This 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 Wukong 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 allies during late stage team fights.
Swain is a good counter for Wukong. You will do well by focussing your strategy on keeping up your gold income and destroying objectives. If you do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Swain against Wukong.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Swain in order to counter Wukong during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you mind the build and suggestions presented here, you will grow your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Swain usually racks up a similar amount of CS relative to Wukong. Champs who on average don't earn much CS usualy don't have to have much CS to be effective, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are able to scale properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically need a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the numbers reported on this page to do well.
The top items to prioritize in your Swain versus Wukong build consist of Rylai's Crystal Scepter, Zaz'Zak's Realmspike, and Liandry's Torment. When Swain included at least these three pieces in his build, he performed a lot better countering Wukong than with many other commonly used counter builds. In fact, Swain had an average win rate of 52.4% when playing against Wukong with this build.
To have the best likelihood of beating Wukong as Swain, you should equip the Conqueror, Presence of Mind, Legend: Tenacity, Last Stand, Conditioning, and Overgrowth runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the runes we have analyed for Swain vs Wukong face-offs, this sequence of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 52.4% win rate overall.
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