Swain vs Talon
How to Beat Talon as Swain
based on 2,911 Swain vs Talon matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Swain vs Talon Matchup Summary
Best Swain vs Talon Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Talon as Swain
Tips for Playing as Swain against Talon
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 Talon
Talon is heavily reliant on Shadow Assault to escape a fight. When it is down he's significantly more vulnerable.
Talon has unrivaled roaming ability. Make sure to keep track of his position or force him to stay in lane by pushing aggressively.
Talon's attacks are all physical damage. Build armor early to counter his burst damage.
Swain vs Talon Counter Stats
How to Counter Talon with Swain in LoL
The stats provided here underscore several significant Swain vs. Talon counter statistics that can help us appreciate the differences and similarities between the two. Swain’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Talon’s ratio of NaN, highlighting that Swain may be more central to his team's team fighting capacity than Talon. This observation is in large part fueled by the differences in assists.
Swain often has a slightly smaller longest kill spree than his matchup does. On average, he receives more damage than Talon. This typically indicates differing health capacities; however, it can also show that the champion with increased health has less mobility and thus is not able to flee from additional damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Swain and Talon
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Who is Better, Swain or Talon?
Both League of Legends champs are great. Both champs have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Swain usually wins when facing off against Talon, with a 52.6% win rate. Thus, Swain makes a good counter to Talon.
While Swain does have a higher win rate than Talon, when they face off with one another, Swain also has a greater learning curve that makes him a more difficult champion to learn and master. You should be be fine when picking Swain into Talonas his relative depth means that you may not be able to reach his full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Additionally, Swain also has some amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Talon. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when facing champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Swain vs Talon matchups, Swain is the better champion with a noticably higher win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during teamfights.
Swain is a good counter to Talon. You will do well by focussing your gameplay on keeping up your gold and cs and clearing objectives. If you can do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Swain against Talon.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Swain to counter Talon during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you mind the build and stats presented here, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Swain on average racks up a similar amount of CS relative to Talon. Champions who on average don't take many minion kills typically don't have to have much CS to be effective, such as supports. They are capable of scaling well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually require many items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the numbers reported on this page to do well.
The best items to use in your Swain versus Talon build include Rylai's Crystal Scepter, Riftmaker, and Liandry's Torment. When Swain used at least these three pieces in his build, he performed significantly better countering Talon than with many other common builds. In fact, Swain boasted an average winrate of 52.6% when countering Talon with this build.
To have the highest chance of vanquishing Talon as Swain, Swain players should use the Summon Aery, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Scorch, Conditioning, and Overgrowth runes from the Sorcery and Resolve rune sets. Of all the rune combinations that we analyzed for Swain vs Talon fights, this combination of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 52.6% winrate overall.
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