Support · 66 games · EUW

Swain

Support · 19% of games Bot · 48%Mid · 22%Top · 11%

On average ahead of the lane opponent at 15 minutes (+453 gold).

Win rate: 54.5%; ±12.0 · role avg 50.0%
Tier: A; #13 of 48
Pick rate: 1.0%; ban 0.7%
Games: 66; ranked solo/duo

Swain support wins 54.5% of 66 ranked games in EUW, rank 13 of 48 support champions (tier A). Most players finish Rylai's Crystal Scepter first, at about 13:24.

The build at a glance

What most Swain players run

Items 1–4: the most common path. Later items: the most common pick in the games that last that long, so fewer games.

Items, in buying orderEvery option, item by item →

Item 1

Rylai's Crystal Scepter 13:15 · 95% · 57 games

Boots

Plated Steelcaps 14:36 · 29% of games

Item 2

Bandlepipes 21:48 · 28% · 10 games

Item 3 · late game

Zhonya's Hourglass 34:12 · 3 of 18 games

Runes

Unsealed Spellbook · Inspiration + Sorcery 23% of games · 60% wins All runes →

Start

Health Potion 67% of games · 50% wins Other starts →

Spells

Flash + Heal 48% of games · 44% wins Other spells →

Skill order

Max Death's Hand first 65% of games · 56% wins Skill orders →

When Swain wins

Win rate by game length

Win rate by when the game ended. Faded: under 30 games. Icons: when each item is usually finished.

Ends before 25′65% wins26% of games · 17

Lasts 25′ or more52% wins73% of games · 48

Lanes

No clear counters yet

Points above or below what both champions' overall win rates predict. Every opponent, minute by minute →

What wins Swain games

First tower: 65% against 30%

Win rate when the team took it firstwhen it didn't Gap

First tower 30% 65% +35

First Baron 38% 72% +34

First blood 42% 62% +20

Rift Herald 44% 61% +17

First dragon 48% 58% +10

First Voidgrubs 58% 50% −8

Taking an objective goes with winning; it isn't the whole cause. First inhibitor is left out: it mostly means the game is already won.

How Swain plays

More multikills, more solo kills

What stands out (10% or more) against the average support. Blue: better for winning, red: worse.

More multikills a game0.21 against 0.09 · +133%

More solo kills a game0.4 against 0.2 · +78%

More damage a minute614 against 368 · +67%

More damage to towers2140 against 1331 · +61%

More share of team damage15% against 10% · +51%

About average: assists, deaths, kill participation, vision.

Build path

Item by item, with the clock

What players finish in each slot, and when. Pick items to follow a build: every column then shows only games that match your picks, and a picked item doesn't appear in another slot. Fewer games last long enough for items 5 and 6.

Item 1done ~13:18

Item 2done ~22:12

Item 3done ~29:48

Item 4done ~33:30

Most common full builds

Each row stops where games ended or the next item was too rare to list on its own. Boots (dashed ring) sit where they're usually bought.

Adjust to their team

Items 2–4 against each team

Against teams with magic heavy damage

Bloodletter's Curse 60%5

Teams are grouped by their champions' usual damage, toughness, healing and crowd control, from all games.

Before the first back

Start, boots, spells, skills

Starting items

Health Potion + Health Potion50.0%44

Health Potion60.0%20

Health Potion + Health Potion + Control Ward100.0%1

Boots

Plated Steelcaps ~14:3652.6%19

Ionian Boots of Lucidity ~6:5455.6%18

Mercury's Treads ~16:2446.2%13

Summoner spells

Flash + Heal43.8%32

Flash + Ignite66.7%18

Exhaust + Flash62.5%16

Skills

Max

E55.8%43

Max

Q57.1%21

Start

Q55.8%52

Start

W45.5%11

Dies about as often as most supports, and more of it is ganks

Before 14 minutes Swain dies 2.4 times a game (average 2.6). 48% of those deaths involve the enemy jungler, against 45% for the average support. 8% are fair 1-v-1s.

2.4deaths per game before 14′less than average (2.6)

48%involve the enemy junglermore than average (45%)

92%outnumbered (2+ enemies)more than average (89%)

26%with no teammate nearabout average (27%)

Deaths before 14 minutes. Gank: the enemy jungler got the kill or helped. Collapse: two or more enemies, no jungler. Alone: no teammate within about a screen.

Where Swain dies before 14 minutes

Ganks and collapses both hit your half of bot lane

Ganks: 40% in your half of bot lane. Collapses: 41% in your half of bot lane. 1-v-1s: 42% in their half of bot lane.

Each square takes the colour of the most common kind of death there; brighter = more deaths. Red-side games are flipped, so the map always reads from the blue side.

Compared with the average support

What kills Swain

Kind of death

Swain Average

Gank 48% (avg 45%)Collapse 44% (avg 44%)1-v-1 8% (avg 11%)

Who gets the kill

Swain Average

Bot laner 39% (avg 41%)Jungler 33% (avg 25%)Support 17% (avg 15%)Mid laner 9% (avg 16%)Top laner 2% (avg 3%)

Gank clock

Ganks come at 2:00, 5:00 and 9:00, then every minute

Swain Peak Average support

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Ward the river before 2:00, 5:00 and 9:00. From 10:00, keep vision up: ganks come every minute.

Deaths involving the enemy jungler, per 100 games, by minute. Narrow bars: Swain; wide light bars behind them: the average. Highlighted: the laning peaks.

Where Swain wins fights

Wins fights in their half of bot lane, loses them in your half of bot lane

Before 14 minutes: 1.0 kills per death in their half of bot lane against 0.5 in your half of bot lane. Overall 0.8 kills per death.

Their half of bot lane 1.0 K/D 52 / 52

Your half of bot lane 0.5 K/D 32 / 62

The bot-side river 0.5 K/D 9 / 18

Their jungle 2.8 K/D 11 / 4

Blue bars: kills, red bars: deaths. On the map, blue squares are where Swain wins more fights than they lose, red where they lose more.

At the team's dragonsWorth knowingNear 46% of their team's dragon takes (average support 48%). The team wins 52% when Swain is there and 77% when not.

Leaving laneNo clear difference yetFirst shows up in mid lane around 10:00 (average 10:00). Supports who get there by 14:00 win 51% against 44%; for Swain it is 53% against 63%.

Swain

What most Swain players run

Win rate by game length

No clear counters yet

First tower: 65% against 30%

More multikills, more solo kills

Item by item, with the clock

Most common full builds

Items 2–4 against each team

Start, boots, spells, skills

Starting items

Boots

Summoner spells

Skills

No clearly hard lane yet

No clearly easy lane yet

Not enough games yet

Enemies: nothing clear yet

Teammates that change Swain's games

Dies about as often as most supports, and more of it is ganks

Ganks and collapses both hit your half of bot lane

What kills Swain

Ganks come at 2:00, 5:00 and 9:00, then every minute

Wins fights in their half of bot lane, loses them in your half of bot lane

Wins fights in your jungle, loses them in your half of mid

Where fights happen