Swain vs Renekton
How to Beat Renekton as Swain
based on 2,275 Swain vs Renekton matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Swain vs Renekton Matchup Summary
Best Swain vs Renekton Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Renekton as Swain
Tips for Playing as Swain against Renekton
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 Renekton
Keeping Renekton from being able to fight and gain Fury by continually harassing him will severely reduce the effectiveness of his abilities.
Pay close attention to Renekton's Fury gauge as that will usually signify when he is about to attack.
Swain vs Renekton Counter Stats
How to Counter Renekton with Swain in LoL
The stats shown here underscore several influential Swain versus Renekton matchup statistics that may help us distinguish the distinctions between the two. Swain’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Renekton’s ratio of NaN, showing that Swain may be more central to his team's team fighting effectiveness than Renekton. This observation is largely a result of the differences in assists.
Swain typically has a similar longest kill spree as his counter does. Typically, he takes less damage than Renekton. This typically indicates differing health capacities, but it can also indicate that the champion with more HP has less mobility and thus is unable to escape further harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Swain and Renekton
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Who is Better, Swain or Renekton?
Both League champs are great. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Swain usually wins when playing against Renekton, with a 54.9% win rate. Thus, Swain makes a great counter for Renekton.
While Swain does have a much higher win rate compared to Renekton, when facing one another, Swain also has a much greater learning curve that makes him a more difficult character to learn and master. You don't need to be too worried when picking Swain into Renektonas his relative depth means you may not be able to reach his full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Furthermore, Swain also has some amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Renekton. This 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 overall in League of Legends, in Swain vs Renekton matchups, Swain is the better champion with a noticably higher win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during teamfights.
Swain is a great counter to Renekton. Focus your strategy on keeping up your gold and cs and destroying objectives. If you can do that, you should do very well as Swain against Renekton.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Swain in order to counter Renekton during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to gather a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and tips shown above, you should grow your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Swain usually picks up less CS as Renekton. Champs who typically don't take many minion kills usualy don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, 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 a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually need several high cost items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the numbers displayed on this page to do well.
The most important items to prioritize in your Swain versus Renekton build include Rylai's Crystal Scepter, Zhonya's Hourglass, and Liandry's Torment. When Swain included at least these three pieces in his build, he performed a lot better when facing Renekton than with many other typical builds. In fact, Swain boasted an average winrate of 54.9% battling Renekton with these items in his kit.
To have the highest chance of coming out on top against Renekton as Swain, Swain players should take 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 combinations players picked for Swain vs Renekton counters, this mix of runes resulted in the best win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 54.9% win rate overall.
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