Swain vs Sivir
How to Beat Sivir as Swain
based on 2,034 Swain vs Sivir matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Swain vs Sivir Matchup Summary
Best Swain vs Sivir Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Sivir as Swain
Tips for Playing as Swain against Sivir
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 Sivir
When laning against Sivir, it is possible to throw off the timing of her Spell Shield by faking an advance, then backing off.
Sivir is a powerful pushing champion, so leaving her unattended in a lane for too long will often result in your turrets being destroyed.
Boomerang Blade costs a lot of mana to cast, so dodging it sets Sivir back. If it hits you on the way out, avoid its path on the way back.
Swain vs Sivir Counter Stats
How to Counter Sivir with Swain in LoL
The stat comparisons shown on this page highlight several valuable Swain vs. Sivir matchup stats that may help us interpret the differences between the two. As an example, Swain’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Sivir’s ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Swain may be more central to his team's team fighting capacity than Sivir..
Swain normally has a similar longest kill spree as his counter does. Commonly, he takes more damage than Sivir. This often reflects different amounts of tankyness, but it can also indicate that the champ with increased HP has less mobility and thus is unable to escape further harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Swain and Sivir
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Who is Better, Swain or Sivir?
Both League of Legends champions are great champions. Both champs have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Swain usually wins when trying to fight Sivir, with a 55.8% win rate. Thus, Swain makes a fantastic counter for Sivir.
While Swain does have a much higher win rate compared to Sivir, 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 don't need to be too worried when picking Swain into Siviras his relative depth means that you may not be able to unleash his full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Moreover, Swain also has some amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Sivir. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when trying to counter champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion in League of Legends, in Swain vs Sivir 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 allied champions during teamfights.
Swain is a great counter for Sivir. Make sure you focus your actions on maximizing your gold income and taking out objectives. If you do that, you should hold your own as Swain against Sivir.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Swain in order to counter Sivir during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to pick up a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you mind the build and stats shown above, you should grow your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Swain typically accumulates less CS relative to Sivir. Champions who on average don't take much CS typically don't have to have much CS to be effective, such as sup champs. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically need several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the values reported on this page to do well.
The most crucial items to focus on in your Swain versus Sivir build include Rylai's Crystal Scepter, Zhonya's Hourglass, and Liandry's Torment. When Swain used at least these three items in his build, he did much better countering Sivir than with many other typical builds. In fact, Swain had an average win rate of 55.8% battling Sivir with this build.
To have the greatest chance of crushing Sivir 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. Out of all the rune builds that we analyzed for Swain vs Sivir battles, this combination of runes yielded the highest win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 55.8% winrate overall.
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