Swain vs Vel'Koz
How to Beat Vel'Koz as Swain
based on 3,199 Swain vs Vel'Koz matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Swain vs Vel'Koz Matchup Summary
Best Swain vs Vel'Koz Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Vel'Koz as Swain
Tips for Playing as Swain against Vel'Koz
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 Vel'Koz
Vel'Koz has fairly low mobility and is vulnerable to ganks.
Vel'Koz is very dangerous if left alone in a fight. Try to focus him down early.
Life Form Disintegration Ray can be interrupted by stuns, silences and knockups.
Swain vs Vel'Koz Counter Stats
How to Counter Vel'Koz with Swain in LoL
The stats shown on this page show some significant Swain versus Vel'Koz matchup statistics that may help us figure out the differences between these two champs. As an example, Swain’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Vel'Koz’s ratio of NaN, indicating that Swain may be more central to his team's team fighting capacity than Vel'Koz..
Swain typically has a similar longest killing spree as his foe does. Commonly, he receives more damage than Vel'Koz. This typically indicates different amounts of tankyness; however, it can also imply that the champion with more HP has less mobility and thus is unable to kite away from additional damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Swain and Vel'Koz
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Who is Better, Swain or Vel'Koz?
Both League of Legends champs are great. Both champs have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Swain usually fairs equally well when playing against Vel'Koz, with a 50.1% win rate. As a result, Swain makes an ok counter to Vel'Koz.
While Swain does have a higher win rate than Vel'Koz, when facing one another, Swain also has a greater learning curve that makes him a more challenging champion to learn. You still need to be cautious when picking Swain into Vel'Kozas his relative depth means that you may not be able to unleash his full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Additionally, Swain has some amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Vel'Koz. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when trying to counter champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion in League of Legends, in Swain vs Vel'Koz matchups, Swain is the better champion with a similar win rate, similar champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during late stage team fights.
Swain is a decent counter to Vel'Koz. You will do well by focussing your strategy on increasing your CS and taking out objectives. If you do that, you should do very well as Swain against Vel'Koz.
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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 Vel'Koz during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to learn a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and stats presented here, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Swain often gets a similar amount of CS compared to Vel'Koz. Champs who typically don't acquire much CS often don't need much CS to be valuable teammates, such as sup champs. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically need a lot of items to be effective. In either situation, try to exceed the values displayed on this page to do well.
The ideal items to use in your Swain versus Vel'Koz build include Rylai's Crystal Scepter, Riftmaker, and Liandry's Torment. When Swain incorporated at least these three items in his build, he did significantly better vs. Vel'Koz than with most other commonly used item sets. In fact, Swain boasted an average win rate of 50.1% battling Vel'Koz with these items in his kit.
To have the highest likelihood of coming out on top against Vel'Koz 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. Of all the rune combinations players used for Swain vs Vel'Koz battles, this sequence of runes yielded the best win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 50.1% win rate overall.
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