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Swain Build

Mid Tier 3

Patch 26.21 · Silver+ · 9,191 gamesUpdated

51.4%win rate0.4%pick3.5%ban

Who counters Swain

Every Mid matchup for Swain, ranked →

How to build Swain

Chainlaced Crushers→Blackfire Torch→Rylai's Crystal Scepter→Zhonya's Hourglass

Chainlaced Crushers → Blackfire Torch → Rylai's Crystal Scepter → Zhonya's Hourglass

57.8% win rate 16% of games 894 games
RunesSorceryDeathfire TouchManaflow BandTranscendenceScorchResolveConditioningOvergrowth29% of games
SpellsFlashTeleportFlash + Teleport43%
Skills
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Death's Hand
24578
Vision of Empire
39101213
Nevermove
114151718
Demonic Ascension
61116
StartDoran's RingHealth PotionHealth PotionDoran's Ring, Health Potion, Health Potion
Full Swain build →
51.4%win rate
Patch 26.20: 51.8% over 25,282 gamesPatch 26.21: 51.4% over 9,191 gameswin rate, 26.20 to 26.21
50.0%at Emerald+
0.4%pick rate
3.5%ban rate
▼ Downwas Tier 2 last patch
53.3%under 22 min
49.9%over 32 min

Want the written version? Our Counter Series breaks down how to actually play against champions like this, not just who wins on paper.

Recent games

Taken from as high up the ladder as this pick gets played. All 10 games from Master and above.

Loss 25–30m
MASTER+
Swain champion portraitM SwainvsGalio champion portraitM Galio
2 / 7 / 3

Build

Chainlaced Crushers|Blackfire Torch→Force of Nature

Spells & runes

FlashGhost|

Skills

EQWQQRQWQWRWWEE
Loss 20–25m
MASTER+
Swain champion portraitM SwainvsViktor champion portraitM Viktor
2 / 11 / 3

Build

Armored Advance|Malignance

Spells & runes

GhostFlash|

Skills

EQWQQRQWQWRW
Loss 25–30m
MASTER+
Swain champion portraitM SwainvsKalista champion portraitM Kalista
7 / 6 / 13

Build

Armored Advance|Frozen Heart→Rylai's Crystal Scepter→Liandry's Torment

Spells & runes

FlashGhost|

Skills

QEWQQRQWQWRWWEER

Runes

The full page most players run, not just the keystone.

Most popular 51.7% win rate · 29% of games · 2,213 games
SorceryDeathfire TouchManaflow BandTranscendenceScorch
ResolveConditioningOvergrowth
Shards Ability Haste · Health Scaling · Health Scaling
Runner up 47.8% win rate · 15% of games · 1,170 games
PrecisionConquerorPresence of MindLegend: HasteLast Stand
ResolveConditioningOvergrowth
Shards Attack Speed · Adaptive Force · Health Scaling

Summoner spells and early items

What people bring, and which ability they max first.

Summoner spells
pickwin
  • FlashTeleportFlash + Teleport43%49.7%4,066 games
  • FlashGhostFlash + Ghost31%53.4%2,974 games

Boots and the other slot items that do not count as finished items in the full build below.

Boots
Chainlaced Crushers41%Armored Advance25%Spellslinger's Shoes21%
Chainlaced Crushers most often · 51.4% win rate

Swain build

The items players finish, in the order they end up in the inventory.

  1. Zhonya's Hourglass1st
  2. Blackfire Torch2nd
  3. Rylai's Crystal Scepter3rd
5% of games that reach a third item take this path60.0% win rate245 games
Every slot, boots and full build for Swain →

Every slot, boots and full builds

Patch 26.21 · 9,364 games with a finished item

Slot by slot

Boots

Chainlaced CrushersChainlaced Crushers
40% · 51.4% win rate
Armored AdvanceArmored Advance
24% · 52.2% win rate
Spellslinger's ShoesSpellslinger's Shoes
21% · 52.8% win rate
SwiftmarchSwiftmarch
6% · 55.7% win rate
Immortal PathImmortal Path
3% · 52.1% win rate
Crimson LucidityCrimson Lucidity
3% · 57.1% win rate

Most common full builds

  1. Blackfire Torch›Rylai's Crystal Scepter+Chainlaced Crushers2% of games · 50.9% win rate · 232 games
  2. Blackfire Torch+Chainlaced Crushers2% of games · 36.8% win rate · 152 games
  3. Rylai's Crystal Scepter›Blackfire Torch+Chainlaced Crushers1% of games · 40.2% win rate · 117 games
  4. Rylai's Crystal Scepter+Chainlaced Crushers1% of games · 42.6% win rate · 115 games
  5. Blackfire Torch›Rylai's Crystal Scepter+Spellslinger's Shoes1% of games · 51.5% win rate · 101 games
Where these numbers come from

We read finished ranked solo queue games directly from Riot and keep a running tally. Nothing is copied from another site.

Matchups compare Swain against the enemy champion in the same lane, counting only games where both were actually there. The counters list pulls each matchup toward Swain's own win rate by 180 games' worth of it, then keeps the ones still under 50%. A matchup seen thirty times barely moves off the champion's average, and one seen a thousand times keeps close to its own number.

Every number here is followed by the games behind it, because that's what tells you how much to trust it. A win rate over a few hundred games is worth reading. The same number over thirty is mostly luck.

Recent games show what was built and who won. They never show who played. Rank is grouped (Master and up is one band), game length is rounded to five minutes, and there's no region or date on a card.

Every ranked game we read this patch adds its finished items here, boots aside. Items are listed in the order they sit in the inventory, which isn't always the order they were bought: a finished item takes the slot its first part was in.

Compare a win rate only with the other picks in its own slot. A fifth item mostly shows up in long games, and those skew toward the team that was already ahead, so late slots run hot whatever sits in them. A row needs 30 games before it shows up at all.

Built from real ranked games this patch. We keep the running totals, never the games themselves.

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