Swain vs Ziggs
How to Beat Ziggs as Swain
based on 1,693 Swain vs Ziggs matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Swain vs Ziggs Matchup Summary
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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.
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.
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.
Advice to Win Against Ziggs
Ziggs' ultimate, Mega Inferno Bomb, deals more damage in the center of the explosion.
Don't step on Ziggs' mines! They'll slow you and make it much easier for him to hit you with his other abiltiies.
Many of Ziggs' abilities have long cooldowns. Try catching him just after he's used his abilities.
Swain vs Ziggs Counter Stats
How to Counter Ziggs with Swain in LoL
The stats shown here feature several valuable Swain vs. Ziggs counter stats that may help you appreciate the distinctions between these two champions. As an example, Swain’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Ziggs’s ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Swain may be more central to his team's team fighting capacity than Ziggs..
Swain normally has a similar longest killing spree as his counter does. Typically, he receives more damage than Ziggs. This typically indicates differing health capacities, but it can also hint that the champion with higher health has less agility and thus is unable to kite away from additional harm when engaged or poked.
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Who is Better, Swain or Ziggs?
Both League champs are great. Both have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Swain usually fairs equally well when taking on Ziggs, with a 49.4% win rate. Thus, Swain makes an ok counter to Ziggs.
While Swain does have a lower win rate compared to Ziggs, when on opposite teams, Swain also has a much greater level of difficulty that makes him a more complex champion to learn and master. You should be careful when picking Swain into Ziggsas his relative depth means you may not be able to reach his full potential without a significant amount 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 lot of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion in League of Legends, in Swain vs Ziggs matchups, Ziggs is the better champion with a similar win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during late stage team fights.
Swain is a somewhat poor counter for Ziggs. Make sure you focus your gameplay on increasing your gold and cs and taking out objectives. If you can do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Swain against Ziggs.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Swain to counter Ziggs during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to learn a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and suggestions displayed here, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Swain often racks up less CS as Ziggs. Champions who typically don't earn much CS usualy don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as sup champs. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically need a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the values shown here to do well.
The most important items to focus on in your Swain versus Ziggs build consist of Liandry's Anguish, Zhonya's Hourglass, and Demonic Embrace. When Swain incorporated at least these three pieces in his build, he performed much better vs Ziggs than with most other commonly used counter builds. In fact, Swain boasted an average winrate of 49.4% battling Ziggs with these items in his kit.
To have the best likelihood of defeating 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. Of all the rune combinations players used for Swain vs Ziggs matchups, this mixture of runes resulted in the best win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 49.4% win rate overall.
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