Swain vs Rammus
How to Beat Rammus as Swain
based on 2,652 Swain vs Rammus matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Swain vs Rammus Matchup Summary
Best Swain vs Rammus Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Rammus as Swain
Tips for Playing as Swain against Rammus
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 Rammus
Rammus often stacks high Armor, leaving him especially vulnerable to caster damage while not in Defensive Ball Curl.
Pay particular attention to when his Defensive Ball Curl is off. Rammus has much lower stats than a normal tank when he's out of the stance.
Swain vs Rammus Counter Stats
How to Counter Rammus with Swain in LoL
The stats provided here underscore some vital Swain vs. Rammus counter stats that can help you figure out the distinctions between these two champs. As an example, Swain’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Rammus’s KDA ratio of NaN, indicating that Swain may be more central to his team's team fighting effectiveness than Rammus..
Swain typically has a slightly larger longest kill spree than his counter does. Commonly, he takes a similar amount of damage to Rammus. This is usually reflective of different amounts of tankyness, but it can also indicate that the champ with higher HP has less mobility and thus is not able to escape additional damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Swain and Rammus
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Who is Better, Swain or Rammus?
Both LoL champs are great champions. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Swain usually wins when playing against Rammus, with a 55.8% win rate. Therefore, Swain makes a fantastic counter for Rammus.
While Swain does have a much higher win rate compared to Rammus, when on opposite teams, Swain also has a much greater learning curve that makes him a more challenging character to pick up and master. You should be be fine when picking Swain into Rammusas his relative depth means you may not be able to unleash his full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Additionally, Swain has some amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Rammus. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when trying to counter champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion overall in League of Legends, in Swain vs Rammus 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 team members during teamfights.
Swain is a great counter to Rammus. You will do well by focussing your tactics on keeping up your CS and destroying objectives. If you can do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Swain against Rammus.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Swain in order to counter Rammus 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 displayed here, you should grow your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Swain often picks up more CS relative to Rammus. Champs who on average don't take many minion kills usualy don't need much CS to be effective, such as sup champs. They are capable of scaling properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually have to have several high cost items to be effective. In either situation, try to surpass the values displayed here to do well.
The top items to use in your Swain versus Rammus build include Rylai's Crystal Scepter, Malignance, and Liandry's Torment. When Swain used at least these three items in his build, he performed much better when fighting Rammus than with most other typical counter builds. In fact, Swain had an average winrate of 55.8% when countering Rammus with these items in his kit.
To have the best likelihood of beating Rammus 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 rune sets that we analyzed for Swain vs Rammus LoL games, this combination of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 55.8% winrate overall.
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