Vayne vs Swain
How to Beat Swain as Vayne
based on 7,830 Vayne vs Swain matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Vayne vs Swain Matchup Summary
Best Vayne vs Swain Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Swain as Vayne
Tips for Playing as Vayne against Swain
Don't go in first to a large teamfight. Wait for your teammates to initiate.
Tumble has many uses, but it cannot pass over walls.
Condemn can be used to both pin targets to walls to ensure a kill, or to escape a pursuer.
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.
Vayne vs Swain Counter Stats
How to Counter Swain with Vayne in LoL
The stats shown here underscore several vital Vayne versus Swain matchup statistics that may help us explain the differences between this set of champions. For instance, Vayne’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Swain’s KDA ratio of NaN, highlighting that Vayne may be more central to her team's team fighting capability than Swain..
Vayne usually has a slightly larger longest killing spree than her enemy does. Commonly, she takes less damage than Swain. This is usually reflective of different amounts of tankyness, but it can also imply that the champion with increased health has less mobility and thus is unable to kite away from additional harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Vayne and Swain
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Who is Better, Vayne or Swain?
Both League champs are great champions. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Vayne usually fairs equally well when playing against Swain, with a 50.0% win rate. Thus, Vayne makes an ok counter for Swain.
While Vayne does have a higher winrate than Swain, when on opposite teams, Vayne also has a greater level of difficulty that makes her a more challenging champion to pick up and master. You should be careful when picking Vayne into Swainas her relative depth means that you may not be able to unleash her full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Furthermore, Vayne also has some amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Swain. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when fighting champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion overall in League of Legends, in Vayne vs Swain matchups, Swain is the better champion with a similar win rate, similar champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during team fights.
Vayne is a decent counter to Swain. Focus your gameplay on maximizing your CS and taking out objectives. If you can do that, you should do very well as Vayne against Swain.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Vayne to counter Swain during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to learn a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you listen to the build and tips presented above, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Vayne usually picks up more CS as Swain. Champions who on average don't earn many minion kills typically don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. They are capable of scaling properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, often require many items to be effective. In either case, try to exceed the numbers reported on this page to do well.
The most crucial items to focus on in your Vayne versus Swain build include Guardian Angel, Wit's End, and Guinsoo's Rageblade. When Vayne incorporated at least these three pieces in her build, she did significantly better against Swain than with most other commonly used counter builds. In fact, Vayne had an average winrate of 50.0% when playing against Swain with this counter build.
To have the highest probability of vanquishing Swain as Vayne, Vayne players should equip the Lethal Tempo, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Coup de Grace, Conditioning, and Overgrowth runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Of all the rune combinations players picked for Vayne vs Swain clashes, this order of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 50.0% winrate overall.
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