Yasuo vs Swain
How to Beat Swain as Yasuo
based on 10,038 Yasuo vs Swain matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Yasuo vs Swain Matchup Summary
Best Yasuo vs Swain Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Swain as Yasuo
Tips for Playing as Yasuo against Swain
Last Breath can be cast on any target that is knocked Airborne, even by one of your allies.
Dash through a minion to have Sweeping Blade available to chase your opponent should they flee; Dash directly to your opponent to preserve a minion as your escape route.
At level 18, Yasuo's Steel Tempest reaches its Attack Speed cap with 55% Attack Speed from items.
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.
Yasuo vs Swain Counter Stats
How to Counter Swain with Yasuo in LoL
The stats shown on this page show several strategic Yasuo versus Swain counter stats that may help us understand the distinctions between the two. For instance, Yasuo’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Swain’s KDA ratio of NaN, highlighting that Yasuo may be more central to his team's team fighting effectiveness than Swain..
Yasuo often has a slightly larger longest kill spree than his enemy does. Typically, he takes less damage than Swain. This is usually reflective of different amounts of tankyness; however, it can also show that the champ with increased HP has less agility and thus is unable to escape additional harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Yasuo and Swain
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Who is Better, Yasuo or Swain?
Both League champions are great. Both have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Yasuo usually loses when trying to fight Swain, with a 48.6% win rate. Thus, Yasuo makes a bad counter to Swain.
While Yasuo does have a lower win rate compared to Swain, when facing one another, Yasuo also has a greater learning curve that makes him a more complex character to learn. You should be careful when picking Yasuo into Swainas his relative depth means that you may not be able to reach his full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Additionally, Yasuo 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 facing champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion overall in League of Legends, in Yasuo vs Swain matchups, Swain is the better champion with a lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during team fights.
Yasuo is a somewhat poor counter for Swain. Make sure you focus your gameplay on keeping up your gold and cs and destroying objectives. If you are able to do that, you should do very well as Yasuo against Swain.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Yasuo in order to counter Swain during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and tips displayed above, you should increase your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Yasuo most often accumulates more CS relative to Swain. Champs who on average don't acquire many minion kills usualy don't have to have much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. They are capable of scaling well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually have to have many items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the numbers shown here to do well.
The top items to use in your Yasuo versus Swain build consist of Guardian Angel, Kraken Slayer, and Immortal Shieldbow. When Yasuo combined at least these three items in his build, he performed much better when fighting Swain than with many other common builds. In fact, Yasuo boasted an average win rate of 48.6% when playing against Swain with these items in his kit.
To have the best probability of annihilating Swain as Yasuo, Yasuo players should take the Lethal Tempo, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Last Stand, Second Wind, and Overgrowth runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the runes players picked for Yasuo vs Swain LoL games, this mixture of runes resulted in the best win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 48.6% win rate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to beat Swain as Yasuo are shown for every ranked division. If you want to narrow the statistics and builds to a particular rank, you can use the selection menu earlier in the counter matchup guide.