Taliyah vs Swain
How to Beat Swain as Taliyah
based on 1,481 Taliyah vs Swain matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Taliyah vs Swain Matchup Summary
Best Taliyah vs Swain Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Swain as Taliyah
Tips for Playing as Taliyah against Swain
Remember, you don't always have to ride Weaver's Wall.
Try to throw enemies into Unraveled Earth using Seismic Shove.
Once you have Rylai's Crystal Scepter, casting Threaded Volley at enemies chasing you is a great way of making them regret everything.
Advice to Win Against Swain
Buying an item with Grievous Wounds will make Swain much easier to kill during his Demonic Ascension.
Swain's passive is very potent if you are immobilized. Make sure to be extra careful around enemies who have immobilizing effects.
High mobility counters all of Swain's basic abilities: Death's Hand does more damage the closer he is, Vision of Empire has a very long delay and Nevermove must start returning back to him to be dangerous.
Taliyah vs Swain Counter Stats
How to Counter Swain with Taliyah in LoL
The stat comparisons provided here show several valuable Taliyah versus Swain matchup stats that can help you interpret the differences and similarities between this pair of champs. As an example, Taliyah’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Swain’s ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Taliyah may be more central to her team's team fighting effectiveness than Swain..
Taliyah normally has a similar longest kill spree as her opponent does. Typically, she receives less damage than Swain. This typically indicates different amounts of tankyness; however, it can also imply that the one champ has less mobility and thus is not able to escape additional harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Taliyah and Swain
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Who is Better, Taliyah or Swain?
Both LoL champions are great. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Taliyah usually loses when taking on Swain, with a 47.9% win rate. As a result, Taliyah makes a bad counter for Swain.
While Taliyah does have a lower win rate than Swain, when facing one another, Taliyah also has a lower learning curve that makes her a less complex champion to develop with. You should expect to face a difficult match when picking Taliyah into Swain.
Furthermore, Taliyah has a good amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Swain. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when facing champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Taliyah vs Swain matchups, Swain is the better champ with a lower win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during team fights.
Taliyah is a bad counter for Swain. Focus your tactics on maximizing your gold income and destroying objectives. If you do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Taliyah against Swain.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Taliyah to counter Swain during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to learn a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you listen to the build and stats shown above, you will increase your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Taliyah typically picks up a similar amount of CS relative to Swain. Champs who on average don't take many minion kills often don't need much CS to be effective, such as sup champs. They are capable of scaling well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically require a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to surpass the values shown on this page to do well.
The most important items to focus on in your Taliyah versus Swain build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Stormsurge, and Luden's Companion. When Taliyah combined at least these three pieces in her build, she did much better vs. Swain than with most other common counter builds. In fact, Taliyah had an average win rate of 47.9% battling Swain with these items in her kit.
To have the best chance of annihilating Swain as Taliyah, you should use the First Strike, Magical Footwear, Future's Market, Cosmic Insight, Eyeball Collection, and Treasure Hunter runes from the Inspiration and Domination rune sets. Of all the rune sets players used for Taliyah vs Swain battles, this set of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 47.9% win rate overall.
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