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.
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.
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.
Be careful when chasing Singed. He's very difficult to bring down, and can leave his Poison Trail to damage you in your pursuit.
Keep your distance to avoid being Flung back into Singed's allies.
Singed needs to run close to your team to be effective. Try to take advantage of this by using crowd control effects on him while attacking his allies.
The stat comparisons shown here underscore some influential Swain against Singed matchup stats that may help us grasp the differences between these two champions. For instance, Swain’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Singed’s ratio of NaN, showing that Swain may be more central to his team's team fighting capability than Singed..
Swain normally has a similar longest kill spree as his opponent does. Typically, he takes a similar amount of damage to Singed. This typically indicates different amounts of tankyness, but it can also show that the champion with more HP has less mobility and thus is unable to kite away from additional harm when poked or engaged.
Both League champions are great. Both champs have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Swain usually fairs equally well when trying to fight Singed, with a 50.2% win rate. Therefore, Swain makes an ok counter to Singed.
While Swain does have a higher winrate than Singed, when on opposite teams, Swain also has a much greater difficulty level that makes him a more time consuming character to learn and master. You should be careful when picking Swain into Singedas 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 utility and CC, a similar amount to Singed. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when facing champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion overall in League of Legends, in Swain vs Singed matchups, Swain is the better champion with a similar 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 for Singed. You will do well by focussing your gameplay on increasing your gold income and clearing objectives. If you are able to do that, you should hold your own as Swain against Singed.
To truly master Swain to counter Singed during both the early game 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 mind the build and suggestions presented above, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Swain on average racks up less CS compared to Singed. Champions who typically don't acquire many minion kills usualy don't require much CS to be effective, such as sup champs. They are able to scale well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically have to have several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the numbers displayed here to do well.
The most important items to have in your Swain versus Singed build include Liandry's Anguish, Zhonya's Hourglass, and Demonic Embrace. When Swain used at least these three pieces in his build, he performed much better vs Singed than with most other common item sets. In fact, Swain had an average winrate of 50.2% battling Singed with these items in his kit.
To have the greatest probability of beating Singed as Swain, you should equip the Conqueror, Presence of Mind, Legend: Tenacity, Last Stand, Conditioning, and Overgrowth runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Of all the rune sets players chose for Swain vs Singed counters, this sequence of runes resulted in the best win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 50.2% winrate overall.
By default, tips, statistics, and builds on how to beat Singed as Swain are presented for every ranked division. To narrow the stats and builds to a distinct player tier, you can use the selection menu earlier in the counter matchup guide.