Swain vs Ziggs
How to Beat Ziggs as Swain
based on 2,054 Swain vs Ziggs matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Swain vs Ziggs Matchup Summary
Best Swain vs Ziggs Counter Build
Items
Starter Items
Early Items
Core Swain Items
Optional Items
Summoner Spells
Skill Order
Runes
Guide to Countering Ziggs as Swain
Tips for Playing as Swain against Ziggs
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 Ziggs
Many of Ziggs' abilities have long cooldowns. Try catching him just after he's used his abilities.
Don't step on Ziggs' mines! They'll slow you and make it much easier for him to hit you with his other abiltiies.
Ziggs' ultimate, Mega Inferno Bomb, deals more damage in the center of the explosion.
Swain vs Ziggs Counter Stats
How to Counter Ziggs with Swain in LoL
The stat comparisons shown on this page emphasize some influential Swain against Ziggs matchup stats that may help us realize the differences and similarities between this pair of champions. Swain’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Ziggs’s KDA ratio of NaN, highlighting that Swain may be more central to his team's team fighting potential than Ziggs..
Swain often has a similar longest killing spree as his counter does. On average, he takes more damage than Ziggs. This often reflects different amounts of tankyness, yet it can also indicate that the one champion has less agility and thus is unable to escape additional damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Swain and Ziggs
Damage Types Compared
Champion Playstyles Compared
Who is Better, Swain or Ziggs?
Both LoL champs are great. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Swain usually wins when taking on Ziggs, with a 51.9% win rate. Thus, Swain makes a good counter for Ziggs.
While Swain does have a higher win rate compared to Ziggs, when on opposite teams, Swain also has a much greater difficulty level that makes him a more time consuming champion to learn and master. You should be careful when picking Swain into Ziggsas his relative depth means you may not be able to unleash his full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Moreover, Swain has some amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Ziggs. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when trying to counter champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Swain vs Ziggs matchups, Swain is the better champ with a higher win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during teamfights.
Swain is a decent counter for Ziggs. Focus your play on increasing your CS and destroying objectives. If you are able to do that, you should do very well as Swain against Ziggs.
Other Champion Matchups Against Swain
Additional Information for Swain Players
How We Calculated Our Swain vs Ziggs Build and Stats
Other Useful Resources
Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Swain in order to counter Ziggs during both the early game 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 listen to the build and suggestions presented here, you should grow your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Swain often racks up less CS as Ziggs. Champions who on average don't take many minion kills usualy don't have to have much CS to be valuable teammates, such as sup champs. They are able to scale well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, often have to have 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 best items to use in your Swain versus Ziggs build consist of Rylai's Crystal Scepter, Zaz'Zak's Realmspike, and Liandry's Torment. When Swain incorporated at least these three items in his build, he did significantly better when facing Ziggs than with most other typical builds. In fact, Swain boasted an average winrate of 51.9% when countering Ziggs with this counter build.
To have the greatest likelihood of vanquishing Ziggs as Swain, Swain players should use the Conqueror, Presence of Mind, Legend: Tenacity, Last Stand, Conditioning, and Overgrowth runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the runes players chose for Swain vs Ziggs battles, this composite of runes resulted in the highest win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 51.9% winrate overall.
By default, tips, statistics, and builds on how to beat Ziggs as Swain are presented for all ranked divisions. If you want to narrow the statistics and builds to an individual player tier, you can use the selection menu earlier on the page.