Swain vs Thresh
How to Beat Thresh as Swain
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Swain vs Thresh Matchup Summary
Best Swain vs Thresh Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Thresh as Swain
Tips for Playing as Swain against Thresh
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 Thresh
Intentionally breaking a wall of The Box can allow a vulnerable ally to escape unscathed.
Thresh's Death Sentence has a long cast time. Watch for the cast to begin to take evasive actions.
Thresh relies on collecting souls for a portion of his defense and damage. Try punishing him when he moves to collect them.
Swain vs Thresh Counter Stats
How to Counter Thresh with Swain in LoL
The stat comparisons shown on this page highlight several important Swain versus Thresh counter statistics that may help you understand the distinctions between the two. Swain’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Thresh’s KDA ratio of NaN, highlighting that Swain may be more central to his team's team fighting capability than Thresh. This observation is in large part caused by the difference in kills.
Swain typically has a much larger longest killing spree than his counter does. Typically, he receives more damage than Thresh. This often reflects differing health capacities; however, it can also illustrate that the champ with higher health has less agility and thus is unable to flee from additional harm when engaged or poked.
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Who is Better, Swain or Thresh?
Both League champions are great. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Swain usually wins when playing against Thresh, with a 55.1% win rate. As a result, Swain makes a fantastic counter to Thresh.
While Swain does have a much higher win rate compared to Thresh, when facing one another, Swain also has a greater learning curve that makes him a more difficult character to pick up and master. You don't need to be too worried when picking Swain into Threshas 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 CC and other utility, a similar amount to Thresh. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when trying to counter champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Swain vs Thresh 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 allied champions during late stage team fights.
Swain is a great counter for Thresh. Make sure you focus your strategy on increasing your gold income and taking out objectives. If you do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Swain against Thresh.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Swain in order to counter Thresh 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 pay attention to the build and tips displayed above, you will grow your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Swain on average accumulates more CS relative to Thresh. Champs who typically don't earn much CS usualy don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. They are able to scale well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually require many items to be effective. In either case, try to surpass the numbers reported here to do well.
The ideal items to focus on in your Swain versus Thresh build include Zaz'Zak's Realmspike, Liandry's Torment, and Luden's Companion. When Swain incorporated at least these three pieces in his build, he performed significantly better when fighting Thresh than with many other common counter builds. In fact, Swain boasted an average win rate of 55.1% when countering Thresh with these items in his kit.
To have the highest probability of coming out on top against Thresh as Swain, Swain players should equip the Electrocute, Cheap Shot, Eyeball Collection, Ultimate Hunter, Coup de Grace, and Presence of Mind runes from the Domination and Precision rune sets. Out of all the rune builds players picked for Swain vs Thresh clashes, this blending of runes yielded the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 55.1% win rate overall.
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