Swain vs Nilah
How to Beat Nilah as Swain
based on 2,203 Swain vs Nilah matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Swain vs Nilah Matchup Summary
Best Swain vs Nilah Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Nilah as Swain
Tips for Playing as Swain against Nilah
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.
Swain vs Nilah Counter Stats
How to Counter Nilah with Swain in LoL
The stats provided here feature several strategic Swain against Nilah matchup stats that may help you distinguish the differences and similarities between this pair of champs. Swain’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Nilah’s ratio of NaN, highlighting that Swain may be more central to his team's team fighting potential than Nilah. This observation is largely a result of the differences in assists.
Swain usually has a slightly smaller longest kill spree than his foe does. Commonly, he receives more damage than Nilah. This is usually reflective of different amounts of tankyness, yet it can also illustrate that the one champ has less agility and thus is unable to kite away from additional harm when poked or engaged.
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Who is Better, Swain or Nilah?
Both League of Legends champs are great. Both have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Swain usually fairs equally well when playing against Nilah, with a 50.2% win rate. Therefore, Swain makes an ok counter for Nilah.
While Swain does have a higher win rate than Nilah, when facing one another, Swain also has a lower difficulty level that makes him a less time consuming champion to pick up and master. You still need to be cautious when picking Swain into Nilahas his relative depth means you may not be able to unleash his full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Additionally, Swain also has some amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Nilah. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when trying to counter champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion in League of Legends, in Swain vs Nilah matchups, Swain is the better champ with a similar win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during late stage team fights.
Swain is a decent counter to Nilah. You will do well by focussing your strategy on maximizing your CS and destroying objectives. If you are able to do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Swain against Nilah.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Swain to counter Nilah during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to learn a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you mind the build and tips shown above, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Swain typically picks up less CS relative to Nilah. Champions who on average don't earn many minion kills often don't have to have much CS to be valuable teammates, such as supports. They are capable of scaling well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically have to have many items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the values displayed here to do well.
The best items to use in your Swain versus Nilah build consist of Rylai's Crystal Scepter, Malignance, and Zhonya's Hourglass. When Swain incorporated at least these three items in his build, he performed much better vs. Nilah than with most other common builds. In fact, Swain boasted an average winrate of 50.2% when playing against Nilah with this build.
To have the highest probability of vanquishing Nilah as Swain, you should take the Electrocute, Cheap Shot, Eyeball Collection, Ultimate Hunter, Coup de Grace, and Presence of Mind runes from the Domination and Precision rune sets. Of all the runes players used for Swain vs Nilah face-offs, this order of runes yielded the best win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 50.2% win rate overall.
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