Volibear vs Swain
How to Beat Swain as Volibear
based on 2,976 Volibear vs Swain matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Volibear vs Swain Matchup Summary
Best Volibear vs Swain Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Swain as Volibear
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.
Volibear vs Swain Counter Stats
How to Counter Swain with Volibear in LoL
The stats shown here highlight several valuable Volibear vs. Swain counter statistics that may help us figure out the distinctions between the two. Volibear’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Swain’s KDA ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Volibear may be more central to his team's team fighting potential than Swain..
Volibear typically has a similar longest killing spree as his enemy does. Typically, he takes more damage than Swain. This commonly reflects different amounts of tankyness; however, it can also indicate that the champ with higher HP has less agility and thus is unable to flee from additional damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Volibear and Swain
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Who is Better, Volibear or Swain?
Both LoL champs are great. Both have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Volibear usually loses when facing off against Swain, with a 47.4% win rate. Thus, Volibear makes a bad counter for Swain.
While Volibear does have a lower winrate compared to Swain, when facing one another, Volibear also has a much lower learning curve that makes him a less difficult character to pick up and master. You should expect to face a difficult match when picking Volibear into Swain.
Additionally, Volibear has some amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Swain. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when trying to counter champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion overall in League of Legends, in Volibear vs Swain matchups, Swain is the better champion with a lower win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during team fights.
Volibear is a terribly counter for Swain. You will do well by focussing your tactics on increasing your gold and cs and clearing objectives. If you do that, you should do very well as Volibear against Swain.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Volibear 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 pay attention to the build and stats displayed here, you will grow your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Volibear most often picks up a similar amount of CS relative to Swain. Champs who typically don't earn many minion kills often don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as sup champs. These kinds of champions are able to scale well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically have to have several high cost items to be effective. In either situation, try to surpass the values reported here to do well.
The best items to use in your Volibear versus Swain build consist of Spirit Visage, Hullbreaker, and Riftmaker. When Volibear bought at least these three pieces in his build, he did significantly better when facing Swain than with many other typical builds. In fact, Volibear had an average win rate of 47.4% when playing against Swain with this build.
To have the best chance of crushing Swain as Volibear, you should equip the Lethal Tempo, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Last Stand, Demolish, and Revitalize runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Of all the rune sets players used for Volibear vs Swain matchups, this set of runes resulted in the best win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 47.4% win rate overall.
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