Swain vs Xin Zhao
How to Beat Xin Zhao as Swain
based on 4,668 Swain vs Xin Zhao matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Swain vs Xin Zhao Matchup Summary
Best Swain vs Xin Zhao Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Xin Zhao as Swain
Tips for Playing as Swain against Xin Zhao
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 Xin Zhao
Xin Zhao relies heavily on his Three Talon Strikes for damage and cooldown resets, so preventing him from finishing his combo will have a dramatic effect.
Xin Zhao is a powerful initiator with both his charge and ultimate dealing damage to all units around him. Try having your team stay spread out until he's used his ultimate.
Swain vs Xin Zhao Counter Stats
How to Counter Xin Zhao with Swain in LoL
The stat comparisons shown here underscore several significant Swain vs. Xin Zhao matchup stats that may help you realize the distinctions between the pair. Swain’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Xin Zhao’s KDA ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Swain may be more central to his team's team fighting potential than Xin Zhao..
Swain typically has a slightly smaller longest kill spree than his matchup does. On average, he receives less damage than Xin Zhao. This typically indicates different amounts of tankyness, but it can also imply that the one champion has less agility and thus is not able to kite away from further harm when engaged or poked.
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Who is Better, Swain or Xin Zhao?
Both LoL champs are great. Both have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Swain usually fairs equally well when playing against Xin Zhao, with a 50.6% win rate. Thus, Swain makes an ok counter to Xin Zhao.
While Swain does have a higher win rate compared to Xin Zhao, when facing one another, Swain also has a much greater learning curve that makes him a more difficult champ to pick up and master. You still need to be cautious when picking Swain into Xin Zhaoas his relative depth means that you may not be able to unleash his full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Moreover, Swain also has some amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Xin Zhao. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when facing champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Swain vs Xin Zhao matchups, Swain is the better champion with a similar win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during teamfights.
Swain is a decent counter for Xin Zhao. You will do well by focussing your strategy on maximizing your CS and destroying objectives. If you do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Swain against Xin Zhao.
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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 Xin Zhao during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to learn a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you listen to the build and tips displayed above, you will grow your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Swain usually accumulates more CS compared to Xin Zhao. Champions who typically don't acquire many minion kills usualy don't need much CS to be valuable teammates, such as sup champs. They are capable of scaling properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually have to have a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to exceed the values shown on this page to do well.
The most important items to focus on in your Swain versus Xin Zhao build include Malignance, Riftmaker, and Liandry's Torment. When Swain combined at least these three pieces in his build, he did significantly better countering Xin Zhao than with many other typical counter builds. In fact, Swain boasted an average win rate of 50.6% when countering Xin Zhao with this counter build.
To have the highest probability of annihilating Xin Zhao as Swain, you should equip the Conqueror, Presence of Mind, Legend: Tenacity, Last Stand, Conditioning, and Overgrowth runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Of all the rune builds players used for Swain vs Xin Zhao matchups, this mixture of runes yielded the best win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 50.6% winrate overall.
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