Twitch vs Swain
How to Beat Swain as Twitch
based on 5,528 Twitch vs Swain matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Twitch vs Swain Matchup Summary
Best Twitch vs Swain Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Swain as Twitch
Tips for Playing as Twitch against Swain
Contaminate has a large range; apply as many stacks of Deadly Venom as possible before using it.
You can catch up to an enemy out of attack range with Venom Cask.
Twitch's Attack Speed is among the highest in the game; try purchasing items with on-hit effects such as Black Cleaver or Wit's End.
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.
Twitch vs Swain Counter Stats
How to Counter Swain with Twitch in LoL
The stats shown here show some valuable Twitch vs. Swain counter stats that can help us realize the differences and similarities between the two. Twitch’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Swain’s KDA ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Twitch may be more central to his team's team fighting potential than Swain. This observation is largely a result of the difference in kills.
Twitch normally has a slightly larger longest killing spree than his enemy does. Commonly, he receives less damage than Swain. This often reflects differing health capacities; however, it can also indicate that the champ with more health has less mobility and thus is not able to escape further damage when engaged or poked.
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Who is Better, Twitch or Swain?
Both League champions are great. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Twitch usually fairs equally well when trying to fight Swain, with a 50.5% win rate. As a result, Twitch makes an ok counter for Swain.
While Twitch does have a higher win rate than Swain, when on opposite teams, Twitch also has a lower learning curve that makes him a less difficult character to pick up and master. You should be careful when picking Twitch into Swain.
Additionally, Twitch also has almost no amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Swain. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, 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 Twitch vs Swain matchups, Twitch is the better champion with a similar win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during team fights.
Twitch is a decent counter to Swain. Make sure you focus your actions on maximizing your gold and cs and taking out objectives. If you do that, you should do very well as Twitch against Swain.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Twitch in order to counter Swain during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to learn a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and suggestions presented above, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Twitch often picks up a similar amount of CS compared to Swain. Champions who typically don't acquire much CS often don't have to have much CS to be valuable teammates, such as supports. They are capable of scaling properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, often require many items to be effective. In either case, try to exceed the numbers displayed on this page to do well.
The ideal items to have in your Twitch versus Swain build consist of Infinity Edge, Lord Dominik's Regards, and Runaan's Hurricane. When Twitch used at least these three items in his build, he performed much better versus Swain than with many other commonly used builds. In fact, Twitch boasted an average win rate of 50.5% when countering Swain with these items in his kit.
To have the greatest likelihood of coming out on top against Swain as Twitch, you should equip the Hail of Blades, Taste of Blood, Eyeball Collection, Treasure Hunter, Legend: Alacrity, and Presence of Mind runes from the Domination and Precision rune sets. Out of all the rune sets players chose for Twitch vs Swain counters, this order of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 50.5% win rate overall.
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