Swain vs Yone
How to Beat Yone as Swain
based on 8,734 Swain vs Yone matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Swain vs Yone Matchup Summary
Best Swain vs Yone Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Yone as Swain
Tips for Playing as Swain against Yone
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.
Swain vs Yone Counter Stats
How to Counter Yone with Swain in LoL
The stat comparisons shown here show several influential Swain against Yone matchup statistics that may help us explain the differences and similarities between the pair. As an example, Swain’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Yone’s ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Swain may be more central to his team's team fighting potential than Yone. This observation is largely fueled by the differences in assists.
Swain normally has a slightly smaller longest killing spree than his counter does. Typically, he takes more damage than Yone. This often reflects differing health capacities, yet it can also show that the champion with higher HP has less mobility and thus is unable to kite away from additional damage when engaged or poked.
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Who is Better, Swain or Yone?
Both LoL champions are great champions. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Swain usually fairs equally well when playing against Yone, with a 49.6% win rate. As a result, Swain makes an ok counter to Yone.
While Swain does have a lower win rate than Yone, when facing one another, Swain also has a greater difficulty level that makes him a more challenging champion to pick up and master. You should be careful when picking Swain into Yoneas his relative depth means that you may not be able to unleash his full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Moreover, Swain also has some amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Yone. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when facing champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion overall in League of Legends, in Swain vs Yone matchups, Yone 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 somewhat poor counter to Yone. Make sure you focus your tactics on keeping up your CS and destroying objectives. If you do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Swain against Yone.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Swain to counter Yone during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to learn a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you mind the build and stats presented above, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Swain usually gets less CS relative to Yone. Champions who on average don't take many minion kills typically don't have to have much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are able to scale well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, often have to have many items to be effective. In either case, try to exceed the numbers shown on this page to do well.
The ideal items to focus on in your Swain versus Yone build include Zhonya's Hourglass, Riftmaker, and Liandry's Torment. When Swain combined at least these three items in his build, he performed significantly better versus Yone than with many other common item sets. In fact, Swain had an average winrate of 49.6% when countering Yone with this build.
To have the greatest chance of annihilating Yone as Swain, you should take the Conqueror, Presence of Mind, Legend: Tenacity, Last Stand, Manaflow Band, and Transcendence runes from the Precision and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations we have analyed for Swain vs Yone LoL games, this blending of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 49.6% win rate overall.
By default, tips, statistics, and builds on how to beat Yone as Swain are shown for all skill levels, merged. If you would like to narrow the stats and builds to an individual division, you can use the selection menu earlier in the counter matchup guide.