Swain vs Nasus
How to Beat Nasus as Swain
based on 4,170 Swain vs Nasus matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Swain vs Nasus Matchup Summary
Best Swain vs Nasus Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Nasus as Swain
Tips for Playing as Swain against Nasus
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 Nasus
Nasus is prone to being kited. Try not to engage him at full Health.
Max rank Wither is a very effective counter to Attack Damage characters, so try to avoid getting caught alone by it.
While transformed by his ultimate, Nasus is stronger than most champions in the League. Engage him only if you have a clear advantage.
Swain vs Nasus Counter Stats
How to Counter Nasus with Swain in LoL
The stats shown here underscore several significant Swain vs. Nasus counter stats that may help us realize the differences between the two. For instance, Swain’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Nasus’s ratio of NaN, showing that Swain may be more central to his team's team fighting capacity than Nasus. This observation is in large part fueled by the differences in assists.
Swain usually has a similar longest kill spree as his matchup does. Typically, he takes less damage than Nasus. This typically indicates different amounts of tankyness; however, it can also illustrate that the champ with increased HP has less agility and thus is not able to escape further damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Swain and Nasus
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Who is Better, Swain or Nasus?
Both League champs are great. Both champs have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Swain usually wins when trying to fight Nasus, with a 52.2% win rate. Therefore, Swain makes a good counter for Nasus.
While Swain does have a higher win rate than Nasus, when facing one another, Swain also has a greater difficulty level that makes him a more time consuming champion to learn and master. You don't need to be too worried when picking Swain into Nasusas his relative depth means you may not be able to reach his full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Additionally, Swain also has some amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Nasus. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when fighting champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion overall in League of Legends, in Swain vs Nasus 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 teammates during late stage team fights.
Swain is an above average counter to Nasus. Focus your gameplay on keeping up your gold income and clearing objectives. If you can do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Swain against Nasus.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Swain in order to counter Nasus during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to gather a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you mind the build and suggestions presented above, you will grow your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Swain often picks up less CS compared to Nasus. Champs who on average don't get much CS typically don't need much CS to be effective, such as supports. They are capable of scaling properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically need several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to exceed the numbers displayed here to do well.
The ideal items to focus on in your Swain versus Nasus build consist of Malignance, Riftmaker, and Liandry's Torment. When Swain included at least these three items in his build, he performed much better when fighting Nasus than with most other common item sets. In fact, Swain boasted an average win rate of 52.2% when playing against Nasus with these items in his kit.
To have the best probability of vanquishing Nasus as Swain, Swain players should use 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 that we analyzed for Swain vs Nasus face-offs, this sequence of runes resulted in the best win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 52.2% win rate overall.
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