Swain vs Ryze
How to Beat Ryze as Swain
based on 1,216 Swain vs Ryze matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Swain vs Ryze Matchup Summary
Best Swain vs Ryze Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Ryze as Swain
Tips for Playing as Swain against Ryze
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 Ryze
Ryze is especially dangerous to opponents that are marked with Flux.
Use Realm Warp's windup time to figure out how to deal with what may be coming out of the portal.
Crowd controlling Ryze during Realm Warp's windup will cancel the portal.
Swain vs Ryze Counter Stats
How to Counter Ryze with Swain in LoL
The stat comparisons shown here feature some vital Swain vs. Ryze counter stats that may help us explain the differences and similarities between the two. As an example, Swain’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Ryze’s ratio of NaN, highlighting that Swain may be more central to his team's team fighting capability than Ryze..
Swain usually has a similar longest kill spree as his foe does. Commonly, he takes more damage than Ryze. This typically indicates different amounts of tankyness, but it can also show that the one champ has less agility and thus is not able to escape additional harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Swain and Ryze
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Who is Better, Swain or Ryze?
Both League champions are great champions. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Swain usually wins when taking on Ryze, with a 51.5% win rate. Therefore, Swain makes a good counter for Ryze.
While Swain does have a higher win rate than Ryze, when they face off with one another, Swain also has a greater level of difficulty that makes him a more complex character to pick up and master. You still need to be cautious when picking Swain into Ryzeas 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 CC and other utility, a similar amount to Ryze. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when facing champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Swain vs Ryze matchups, Swain is the better champ with a higher win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during late stage team fights.
Swain is a decent counter to Ryze. Focus your play on maximizing your gold and cs and destroying objectives. If you can do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Swain against Ryze.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Swain in order to counter Ryze during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to gather a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you mind the build and suggestions shown above, you will grow your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Swain most often picks up less CS relative to Ryze. Champions who typically don't earn many minion kills often don't need much CS to be valuable teammates, such as sup champs. They are able to scale well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, often have to have many items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the numbers shown here to do well.
The best items to prioritize in your Swain versus Ryze build consist of Rylai's Crystal Scepter, Malignance, and Liandry's Torment. When Swain combined at least these three items in his build, he did a lot better when facing Ryze than with many other commonly used counter builds. In fact, Swain boasted an average win rate of 51.5% when countering Ryze with this counter build.
To have the best chance of annihilating Ryze as Swain, you 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 combinations we have analyed for Swain vs Ryze battles, this composite of runes yielded the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 51.5% winrate overall.
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