Swain vs Xayah
How to Beat Xayah as Swain
based on 2,174 Swain vs Xayah matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Swain vs Xayah Matchup Summary
Best Swain vs Xayah Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Xayah as Swain
Tips for Playing as Swain against Xayah
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 Xayah
Xayah's Bladecaller will only root targets hit by 3 or more returning Feathers.
Long fights in the same area with Xayah will allow her to drop a lot of Feathers. Try to stay on the move!
Make sure you are ready when you go for the kill. Untargetability from Featherstorm can quickly turn an ambush in Xayah's favor.
Swain vs Xayah Counter Stats
How to Counter Xayah with Swain in LoL
The stats shown here emphasize some significant Swain against Xayah matchup statistics that can help us grasp the distinctions between the pair. As an example, Swain’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Xayah’s ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Swain may be more central to his team's team fighting capability than Xayah. This observation is in large part caused by the differences in assists.
Swain typically has a similar longest kill spree as his counter does. On average, he receives more damage than Xayah. This commonly reflects differing health capacities, yet it can also show that the one champion has less agility and thus is not able to kite away from further damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Swain and Xayah
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Who is Better, Swain or Xayah?
Both League champions are great. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Swain usually wins when playing against Xayah, with a 57.2% win rate. Thus, Swain makes a fantastic counter to Xayah.
While Swain does have a much higher win rate than Xayah, when on opposite teams, Swain also has a much greater level of difficulty that makes him a more difficult character to pick up and master. You don't need to be too worried when picking Swain into Xayahas his relative depth means that you may not be able to reach his full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Furthermore, Swain also has some amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Xayah. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when fighting champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion in League of Legends, in Swain vs Xayah 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 great counter for Xayah. You will do well by focussing your strategy on maximizing your CS and destroying objectives. If you can do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Swain against Xayah.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Swain in order to counter Xayah during both the laning 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 mind the build and stats displayed here, you will grow your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Swain most often picks up less CS relative to Xayah. Champions who typically don't take much CS typically don't need much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually need a lot of items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the values reported on this page to do well.
The top items to focus on in your Swain versus Xayah build consist of Rylai's Crystal Scepter, Malignance, and Liandry's Torment. When Swain combined at least these three items in his build, he performed much better against Xayah than with most other commonly used item sets. In fact, Swain had an average win rate of 57.2% when playing against Xayah with this build.
To have the best chance of defeating Xayah as Swain, you should take 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 runes we have analyed for Swain vs Xayah matchups, this combination of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 57.2% win rate overall.
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