Xerath vs Swain
How to Beat Swain as Xerath
based on 5,579 Xerath vs Swain matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Xerath vs Swain Matchup Summary
Best Xerath vs Swain Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Swain as Xerath
Tips for Playing as Xerath against Swain
If you stun an enemy with Shocking Orb, follow up with a guaranteed center hit on Eye of Destruction.
It's easier to land Arcanopulse on an enemy when they're moving toward or away from you, rather than side to side.
Eye of Destruction will make landing Arcanopulse easier as the target will be slowed.
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.
Xerath vs Swain Counter Stats
How to Counter Swain with Xerath in LoL
The stats shown on this page show several valuable Xerath versus Swain matchup stats that may help us realize the differences and similarities between these two champions. As an example, Xerath’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Swain’s ratio of NaN, indicating that Xerath may be more central to his team's team fighting potential than Swain..
Xerath typically has a similar longest kill spree as his enemy does. Typically, he takes less damage than Swain. This often reflects differing health capacities, yet it can also illustrate that the one champ has less mobility and thus is not able to escape additional harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Xerath and Swain
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Who is Better, Xerath or Swain?
Both LoL champs are great champions. Both have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Xerath usually wins when playing against Swain, with a 51.5% win rate. As a result, Xerath makes a good counter to Swain.
While Xerath does have a higher win rate than Swain, when on opposite teams, Xerath also has a greater level of difficulty that makes him a more difficult champ to pick up and master. You should be careful when picking Xerath into Swainas his relative depth means that you may not be able to unleash his full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Furthermore, Xerath also 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 a single best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Xerath vs Swain matchups, Xerath is the better champ with a higher win rate, similar champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during team fights.
Xerath is a decent counter for Swain. Make sure you focus your gameplay on increasing your CS and taking out objectives. If you do that, you should hold your own as Xerath against Swain.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Xerath 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 lessons on this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and tips shown here, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Xerath usually racks up a similar amount of CS compared to Swain. Champs who typically don't acquire much CS typically don't need much CS to be valuable teammates, such as supports. They are capable of scaling properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, often have to have many items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the values displayed on this page to do well.
The most important items to use in your Xerath versus Swain build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Zaz'Zak's Realmspike, and Stormsurge. When Xerath bought at least these three items in his build, he performed much better vs Swain than with most other common item sets. In fact, Xerath had an average winrate of 51.5% when playing against Swain with this counter build.
To have the highest probability of crushing Swain as Xerath, Xerath players should take the First Strike, Magical Footwear, Biscuit Delivery, Cosmic Insight, Manaflow Band, and Gathering Storm runes from the Inspiration and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the runes that we analyzed for Xerath vs Swain counterpicks, this combo of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 51.5% winrate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to beat Swain as Xerath are presented for all ranked divisions. If you want to narrow the stats and builds to an individual division, you should use the selection menu located earlier in the counter matchup guide.