Ziggs vs Swain
How to Beat Swain as Ziggs
based on 2,054 Ziggs vs Swain matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Ziggs vs Swain Matchup Summary
Best Ziggs vs Swain Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Swain as Ziggs
Tips for Playing as Ziggs against Swain
Even if you're far from a fight you can still help from afar with Mega Inferno Bomb.
Slowing your enemies with Hexplosive Minefield makes it easier to land other abilities.
Knocking yourself over walls with Satchel Charge can be great when chasing after or escaping from enemies.
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.
Ziggs vs Swain Counter Stats
How to Counter Swain with Ziggs in LoL
The stats shown here underscore some significant Ziggs against Swain counter statistics that can help us interpret the differences and similarities between the two. Ziggs’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Swain’s ratio of NaN, indicating that Ziggs may be more central to his team's team fighting capacity than Swain..
Ziggs often has a similar longest killing spree as his enemy does. Commonly, he receives less damage than Swain. This commonly reflects different amounts of tankyness, but it can also illustrate that the champion with more health has less mobility and thus is not able to escape additional harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Ziggs and Swain
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Who is Better, Ziggs or Swain?
Both League of Legends champs are great. Both have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Ziggs usually loses when taking on Swain, with a 48.1% win rate. Therefore, Ziggs makes a bad counter for Swain.
While Ziggs does have a lower winrate compared to Swain, when on opposite teams, Ziggs also has a much lower learning curve that makes him a less time consuming character to pick up and master. You still need to be cautious when picking Ziggs into Swain.
Additionally, Ziggs has some amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Swain. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when facing champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion in League of Legends, in Ziggs vs Swain matchups, Swain is the better champ with a lower win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during team fights.
Ziggs is a somewhat poor counter to Swain. Make sure you focus your play on increasing your CS and destroying objectives. If you can do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Ziggs against Swain.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Ziggs in order 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 stats presented above, you should grow your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Ziggs on average picks up more CS as Swain. Champs who typically don't acquire many minion kills usualy don't require much CS to be effective, such as support champions. They are able to scale well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually require many items to be effective. In either case, try to surpass the numbers reported here to do well.
The best items to prioritize in your Ziggs versus Swain build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Stormsurge, and Luden's Companion. When Ziggs bought at least these three pieces in his build, he performed significantly better vs. Swain than with most other commonly used builds. In fact, Ziggs boasted an average win rate of 48.1% when playing against Swain with this build.
To have the greatest likelihood of coming out on top against Swain as Ziggs, Ziggs players should take the Arcane Comet, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Scorch, Biscuit Delivery, and Magical Footwear runes from the Sorcery and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the rune sets players used for Ziggs vs Swain matchups, this combo of runes yielded the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 48.1% win rate overall.
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