Swain vs Zilean
How to Beat Zilean as Swain
based on 1,637 Swain vs Zilean matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Swain vs Zilean Matchup Summary
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Guide to Countering Zilean as Swain
Tips for Playing as Swain against Zilean
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 Zilean
Zilean is fragile if a team focuses on him, but otherwise he's very difficult to kill. Commit to killing him as a team.
If you're able to match Zilean's speed, it can sometimes be beneficial to wait until his ultimate has faded before landing the killing blow.
Swain vs Zilean Counter Stats
How to Counter Zilean with Swain in LoL
The stats provided here underscore several influential Swain vs. Zilean counter stats that can help us realize the differences and similarities between this set of champs. Swain’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Zilean’s KDA ratio of NaN, indicating that Swain may be more central to his team's team fighting potential than Zilean..
Swain normally has a slightly larger longest killing spree than his counter does. Typically, he receives more damage than Zilean. This commonly reflects different amounts of tankyness, yet it can also hint that the one champ has less mobility and thus is unable to flee from further damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Swain and Zilean
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Who is Better, Swain or Zilean?
Both League of Legends champions are great. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Swain usually wins when facing off against Zilean, with a 51.1% win rate. As a result, Swain makes a good counter for Zilean.
While Swain does have a higher winrate compared to Zilean, when they face off with one another, Swain also has a greater difficulty level that makes him a more challenging champ to pick up and master. You should be careful when picking Swain into Zileanas his relative depth means you may not be able to unleash his full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Additionally, Swain has some amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Zilean. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when facing champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Swain vs Zilean matchups, Swain is the better champion with a higher win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during team fights.
Swain is a decent counter to Zilean. Focus your actions on increasing your gold and cs and taking out objectives. If you do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Swain against Zilean.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Swain to counter Zilean during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to pick up a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and tips displayed above, you should grow your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Swain most often gets more CS relative to Zilean. Champions who typically don't acquire much CS usualy don't need much CS to be effective, such as supports. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually have to have several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the numbers shown here to do well.
The top items to focus on in your Swain versus Zilean build consist of Rylai's Crystal Scepter, Zhonya's Hourglass, and Liandry's Torment. When Swain used at least these three pieces in his build, he did a lot better countering Zilean than with many other commonly used counter builds. In fact, Swain had an average win rate of 51.1% when countering Zilean with these items in his kit.
To have the highest likelihood of crushing Zilean as Swain, you should equip the Electrocute, Cheap Shot, Eyeball Collection, Ultimate Hunter, Coup de Grace, and Presence of Mind runes from the Domination and Precision rune sets. Out of all the rune sets players used for Swain vs Zilean fights, this mix of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 51.1% winrate overall.
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