Swain vs Rengar
How to Beat Rengar as Swain
based on 4,770 Swain vs Rengar matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Swain vs Rengar Matchup Summary
Best Swain vs Rengar Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Rengar as Swain
Tips for Playing as Swain against Rengar
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 Rengar
Rengar's passive enables him to leap out of brush, so avoid fighting him when near bushes.
Rengar puts an indicator over the nearest enemy champion when he is camouflaged during his ultimate.
Rengar gains an empowered ability when his resource bar is full. Try to confront him when it's low.
Swain vs Rengar Counter Stats
How to Counter Rengar with Swain in LoL
The stats shown here highlight several critical Swain vs. Rengar matchup statistics that can help us understand the differences between the pair. For instance, Swain’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Rengar’s ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Swain may be more central to his team's team fighting potential than Rengar..
Swain normally has a slightly smaller longest killing spree than his enemy does. Typically, he receives less damage than Rengar. This is usually reflective of different amounts of tankyness, but it can also illustrate that the champ with increased HP has less mobility and thus is unable to escape additional harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Swain and Rengar
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Who is Better, Swain or Rengar?
Both League champs are great champions. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Swain usually wins when trying to fight Rengar, with a 53.5% win rate. As a result, Swain makes a great counter to Rengar.
While Swain does have a higher winrate than Rengar, when on opposite teams, Swain also has a greater level of difficulty that makes him a more time consuming champion to develop with. You should be be fine when picking Swain into Rengaras his relative depth means that you may not be able to unleash his full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Additionally, Swain also has some amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Rengar. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when fighting champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion overall in League of Legends, in Swain vs Rengar matchups, Swain is the better champ with a noticably higher win rate, similar champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during late stage team fights.
Swain is a great counter for Rengar. Focus your strategy on maximizing your gold and cs and taking out objectives. If you do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Swain against Rengar.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Swain to counter Rengar during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to learn a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you listen to the build and suggestions displayed above, you should increase your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Swain most often gets more CS compared to Rengar. Champs who on average don't get many minion kills usualy don't need much CS to be effective, such as supports. They are able to scale well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually have to have many items to be effective. In either case, try to exceed the values displayed on this page to do well.
The top items to have in your Swain versus Rengar build include Rylai's Crystal Scepter, Solstice Sleigh, and Liandry's Torment. When Swain bought at least these three items in his build, he performed much better vs. Rengar than with many other typical item sets. In fact, Swain boasted an average win rate of 53.5% battling Rengar with this counter build.
To have the greatest probability of coming out on top against Rengar as Swain, you should equip the Summon Aery, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Scorch, Conditioning, and Overgrowth runes from the Sorcery and Resolve rune sets. Of all the runes players used for Swain vs Rengar counters, this blending of runes resulted in the best win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 53.5% win rate overall.
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