Swain vs Zoe
How to Beat Zoe as Swain
based on 1,696 Swain vs Zoe matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Swain vs Zoe Matchup Summary
Best Swain vs Zoe Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Zoe as Swain
Tips for Playing as Swain against Zoe
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 Zoe
Zoe's Paddle Star deals more damage the further it has flown.
Sleepy Trouble Bubble travels further over walls. Stop Zoe from hiding in fog of war to prevent her from setting the spell up.
Zoe must return to her starting point after casting Portal Jump, making her vulnerable to a counterattack.
Swain vs Zoe Counter Stats
How to Counter Zoe with Swain in LoL
The stat comparisons shown here clarify several vital Swain versus Zoe matchup stats that may help us grasp the differences and similarities between the two. For instance, Swain’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Zoe’s ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Swain may be more central to his team's team fighting capacity than Zoe..
Swain normally has a slightly smaller longest kill spree than his foe does. Commonly, he takes more damage than Zoe. This is usually reflective of different amounts of tankyness, but it can also imply that the champ with higher HP has less mobility and thus is unable to escape further harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Swain and Zoe
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Who is Better, Swain or Zoe?
Both LoL champions are great champions. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Swain usually wins when taking on Zoe, with a 54.6% win rate. Thus, Swain makes a great counter for Zoe.
While Swain does have a much higher winrate than Zoe, when on opposite teams, Swain also has a much greater difficulty level that makes him a more challenging character to develop with. You should be be fine when picking Swain into Zoeas his relative depth means 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 Zoe. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when facing champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Swain vs Zoe matchups, Swain is the better champ with a noticably higher win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during late stage team fights.
Swain is a great counter for Zoe. Focus your gameplay on keeping up your CS and clearing objectives. If you are able to do that, you should do very well as Swain against Zoe.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Swain to counter Zoe during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you listen to the build and stats shown above, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Swain on average gets a similar amount of CS relative to Zoe. Champs who typically don't earn many minion kills typically don't need much CS to be effective, such as supports. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, often have to have several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the values shown on this page to do well.
The most crucial items to prioritize in your Swain versus Zoe build include Rylai's Crystal Scepter, Zhonya's Hourglass, and Liandry's Torment. When Swain incorporated at least these three pieces in his build, he did a lot better countering Zoe than with most other typical builds. In fact, Swain boasted an average winrate of 54.6% when playing against Zoe with this build.
To have the greatest chance of beating Zoe as Swain, Swain players should use the Electrocute, Cheap Shot, Eyeball Collection, Ultimate Hunter, Cosmic Insight, and Triple Tonic runes from the Domination and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the runes we have analyed for Swain vs Zoe battles, this set of runes yielded the best win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 54.6% win rate overall.
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