Zoe vs Swain
How to Beat Swain as Zoe
based on 1,696 Zoe vs Swain matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Zoe vs Swain Matchup Summary
Best Zoe vs Swain Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Swain as Zoe
Tips for Playing as Zoe against Swain
Sleepy Trouble Bubble travels further over walls. Find a hiding spot to set up for a long distance kill.
Break Sleep with your biggest damage source, since enemies who are asleep take double damage.
Paddle Star deals more damage the further it has flown. Casting it behind yourself before redirecting can deal tons of damage.
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.
Zoe vs Swain Counter Stats
How to Counter Swain with Zoe in LoL
The stat comparisons shown on this page clarify several important Zoe versus Swain matchup statistics that can help you understand the distinctions between this pair of champions. Zoe’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Swain’s KDA ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Zoe may be more central to her team's team fighting effectiveness than Swain..
Zoe usually has a slightly larger longest kill spree than her foe does. On average, she takes less damage than Swain. This typically indicates differing health capacities, yet it can also illustrate that the champ with more HP has less mobility and thus is unable to flee from further harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Zoe and Swain
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Who is Better, Zoe or Swain?
Both League champions are great. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Zoe usually loses when trying to fight Swain, with a 45.4% win rate. Thus, Zoe makes a poor counter to Swain.
While Zoe does have a much lower winrate compared to Swain, when on opposite teams, Zoe also has a lower learning curve that makes her a less time consuming champ to learn and master. You should be very concerned when picking Zoe into Swain.
Additionally, Zoe also has only a small amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Swain. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when fighting champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion in League of Legends, in Zoe vs Swain matchups, Swain is the better champion with a much lower win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during team fights.
Zoe is a trash counter to Swain. Focus your strategy on keeping up your gold income and taking out objectives. If you do that, you should hold your own as Zoe against Swain.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Zoe to counter Swain during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to gather a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you listen to the build and stats displayed here, you should increase your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Zoe usually gets a similar amount of CS relative to Swain. Champions who typically don't get many minion kills usualy don't require much CS to be effective, such as supports. They are capable of scaling properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically have to have many items to be effective. In either situation, try to exceed the values reported here to do well.
The best items to prioritize in your Zoe versus Swain build include Void Staff, Stormsurge, and Luden's Companion. When Zoe used at least these three items in her build, she performed significantly better countering Swain than with most other common builds. In fact, Zoe boasted an average winrate of 45.4% when playing against Swain with these items in her kit.
To have the greatest probability of crushing Swain as Zoe, Zoe players should equip the Electrocute, Taste of Blood, Eyeball Collection, Treasure Hunter, Manaflow Band, and Scorch runes from the Domination and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the runes players picked for Zoe vs Swain matchups, this sequence of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 45.4% win rate overall.
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