Swain vs Nunu & Willump
How to Beat Nunu & Willump as Swain
based on 3,241 Swain vs Nunu & Willump matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Swain vs Nunu & Willump Matchup Summary
Best Swain vs Nunu & Willump Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Nunu & Willump as Swain
Tips for Playing as Swain against Nunu & Willump
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 Nunu & Willump
Interrupting the charge up on Absolute Zero will lower the amount of damage your team takes.
Using Summoner Flash is a surefire way to escape Absolute Zero.
Biggest Snowball Ever moves very fast but cannot turn as quickly, so don't try to escape it by running away in a straight line. Instead, make sudden, sharp turns.
Swain vs Nunu & Willump Counter Stats
How to Counter Nunu & Willump with Swain in LoL
The stats shown on this page clarify some important Swain against Nunu & Willump matchup statistics that can help you figure out the differences between the two. For instance, Swain’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Nunu & Willump’s KDA ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Swain may be more central to his team's team fighting potential than Nunu & Willump..
Swain normally has a similar longest kill spree as his opponent does. Commonly, he receives less damage than Nunu & Willump. This typically indicates differing health capacities; however, it can also indicate that the champ with higher health has less agility and thus is unable to escape additional harm when poked or engaged.
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Who is Better, Swain or Nunu & Willump?
Both LoL champions are great. Both have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Swain usually wins when taking on Nunu & Willump, with a 56.9% win rate. As a result, Swain makes a fantastic counter to Nunu & Willump.
While Swain does have a much higher win rate compared to Nunu & Willump, when they face off with one another, Swain also has a much greater difficulty level that makes him a more difficult character to develop with. You don't need to be too worried when picking Swain into Nunu & Willumpas his relative depth means that you may not be able to unleash his full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Moreover, Swain has some amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Nunu & Willump. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when fighting champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion overall in League of Legends, in Swain vs Nunu & Willump 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 a great counter for Nunu & Willump. Make sure you focus your strategy on increasing your gold and cs and destroying objectives. If you do that, you should do very well as Swain against Nunu & Willump.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Swain to counter Nunu & Willump 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 listen to the build and tips shown above, you should increase your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Swain often accumulates much more CS relative to Nunu & Willump. Champions who on average don't earn much CS usualy don't require much CS to be effective, such as supports. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically require a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to exceed the numbers displayed on this page to do well.
The top items to have in your Swain versus Nunu & Willump build include Rylai's Crystal Scepter, Riftmaker, and Liandry's Torment. When Swain used at least these three items in his build, he performed a lot better versus Nunu & Willump than with many other common item sets. In fact, Swain boasted an average win rate of 56.9% when playing against Nunu & Willump with this build.
To have the greatest chance of annihilating Nunu & Willump 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. Of all the rune sets players picked for Swain vs Nunu & Willump matchups, this combo of runes yielded the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 56.9% win rate overall.
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