Swain vs Skarner
How to Beat Skarner as Swain
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Swain vs Skarner Matchup Summary
Best Swain vs Skarner Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Skarner as Swain
Tips for Playing as Swain against Skarner
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 Skarner
Skarner can't harm you very much outside of short range, so stay away from him!
Skarner is especially dangerous when inside Crystal Spire zones his team controls. Try to capture them ahead of time if a fight may break out around them.
Skarner's Move Speed is increased as long as his shield, Crystalline Exoskeleton, persists. Attack him to lower his speed.
Swain vs Skarner Counter Stats
How to Counter Skarner with Swain in LoL
The stats shown here feature several valuable Swain versus Skarner matchup statistics that may help you realize the distinctions between the two. For instance, Swain’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Skarner’s KDA ratio of NaN, highlighting that Swain may be more central to his team's team fighting capacity than Skarner..
Swain typically has a similar longest killing spree as his foe does. Commonly, he takes a similar amount of damage to Skarner. This is usually reflective of different amounts of tankyness, but it can also show that the champ with increased health has less agility and thus is unable to escape further damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Swain and Skarner
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Who is Better, Swain or Skarner?
Both League of Legends champs are great champions. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Swain usually wins when facing off against Skarner, with a 54.3% win rate. As a result, Swain makes a great counter to Skarner.
While Swain does have a much higher win rate than Skarner, when facing one another, Swain also has a much greater learning curve that makes him a more difficult champion to pick up and master. You don't need to be too worried when picking Swain into Skarneras his relative depth means you may not be able to unleash his full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Furthermore, Swain has some amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Skarner. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when fighting champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion in League of Legends, in Swain vs Skarner 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 teammates during late stage team fights.
Swain is a great counter for Skarner. You will do well by focussing your strategy on keeping up your CS and clearing objectives. If you do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Swain against Skarner.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Swain in order to counter Skarner 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 pay attention to the build and tips presented here, you will increase your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Swain on average gets more CS compared to Skarner. Champs who on average don't take many minion kills typically don't have to have much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. They are able to scale properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, often have to have several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to surpass the values reported here to do well.
The ideal items to focus on in your Swain versus Skarner build include Rylai's Crystal Scepter, Malignance, and Liandry's Torment. When Swain combined at least these three pieces in his build, he performed much better vs. Skarner than with many other typical item sets. In fact, Swain boasted an average win rate of 54.3% battling Skarner with this counter build.
To have the best chance of defeating Skarner 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. Of all the runes players chose for Swain vs Skarner clashes, this combo of runes resulted in the best win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 54.3% winrate overall.
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