Swain vs Samira
How to Beat Samira as Swain
based on 6,777 Swain vs Samira matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Swain vs Samira Matchup Summary
Best Swain vs Samira Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Samira as Swain
Tips for Playing as Swain against Samira
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.
Swain vs Samira Counter Stats
How to Counter Samira with Swain in LoL
The stat comparisons provided here underscore several valuable Swain versus Samira matchup statistics that may help you understand the distinctions between the two. For instance, Swain’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Samira’s KDA ratio of NaN, showing that Swain may be more central to his team's team fighting potential than Samira. This observation is in large part caused by the differences in assists.
Swain typically has a significantly smaller longest kill spree than his enemy does. Commonly, he receives more damage than Samira. This often reflects differing health capacities, yet it can also indicate that the one champ has less mobility and thus is not able to flee from further harm when engaged or poked.
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Who is Better, Swain or Samira?
Both League champs are great. Both have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Swain usually wins when taking on Samira, with a 53.1% win rate. Therefore, Swain makes a great counter for Samira.
While Swain does have a higher win rate than Samira, when facing one another, Swain also has a greater difficulty level that makes him a more time consuming champion to develop with. You should be be fine when picking Swain into Samiraas his relative depth means that you may not be able to reach his full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Furthermore, Swain also has some amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Samira. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when trying to counter champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Swain vs Samira 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 allies during teamfights.
Swain is a great counter to Samira. Make sure you focus your strategy on keeping up your gold and cs and destroying objectives. If you can do that, you should hold your own as Swain against Samira.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Swain in order to counter Samira during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to learn a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you mind the build and stats displayed above, you should grow your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Swain most often picks up less CS relative to Samira. Champs who typically don't acquire much CS typically don't need much CS to be effective, such as support champions. They are able to scale well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, often require several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to exceed the values reported here to do well.
The top items to use in your Swain versus Samira build consist of Frozen Heart, Rylai's Crystal Scepter, and Liandry's Torment. When Swain combined at least these three items in his build, he did significantly better when fighting Samira than with many other commonly used counter builds. In fact, Swain had an average win rate of 53.1% when playing against Samira with this counter build.
To have the best chance of beating Samira as Swain, Swain players should equip the Summon Aery, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Scorch, Conditioning, and Overgrowth runes from the Sorcery and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the rune builds players used for Swain vs Samira counters, this composite of runes resulted in the best win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 53.1% winrate overall.
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