Bot · 403 games

Swain

Bot · 38% of games Support · 27%Mid · 25%Top · 10%

Strongest when games end at 20–25 minutes (60%). On average behind the lane opponent at 15 minutes (−95 gold), and still wins 54%.

Win rate: 53.6%; ±4.9 · role avg 50.0%
Tier: S; #6 of 52
Pick rate: 2.1%; ban 0.8%
Games: 403; ranked solo/duo

Lane opponent

Any opponent

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Swain bot wins 53.6% of 403 ranked games, rank 6 of 52 bot champions (tier S). Most players finish Rylai's Crystal Scepter first, at about 10:42.

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 10:53 · 37% · 145 games

Boots

Plated Steelcaps 13:36 · 39% of games

Item 2

Winter's Approach 17:09 · 36% · 43 games

Item 3

Unending Despair 22:49 · 50% · 13 games

Item 4 · late game

Spirit Visage 29:18 · 13 of 99 games

Item 5 · late game

Bloodletter's Curse 35:06 · 3 of 22 games

Runes

Conqueror · Precision + Resolve 9% of games · 51% wins All runes →

Start

Doran's Ring + Health Potion 65% of games · 52% wins Other starts →

Spells

Exhaust + Flash 57% of games · 53% wins Other spells →

Skill order

Max Death's Hand first 84% of games · 54% wins Skill orders →

When Swain wins

Best when games end at 20–25′

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

Ends before 25′57% wins41% of games · 166

Lasts 25′ or more51% wins59% of games · 236

Lanes

Watch out for Caitlyn, Aphelios, Jhin

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

What wins Swain games

First tower: 76% against 31%

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

First tower 31% 76% +46

First Baron 36% 80% +43

Rift Herald 38% 73% +35

First dragon 42% 66% +24

First blood 48% 61% +13

First Voidgrubs 48% 60% +12

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

Fewer control wards, more assists

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

Fewer control wards a game0.29 against 0.63 · −54%

More assists a game10.1 against 6.8 · +47%

Less damage to towers5108 against 7525 · −32%

Fewer multikills a game0.74 against 1.06 · −30%

Fewer deaths a game4.9 against 6.0 · −17%

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 ~10:48

Item 2done ~17:24

Item 3done ~23:30

Item 4done ~28:00

Item 5done ~33:00

Most common full builds

Malignance › Plated Steelcaps › Rylai's Crystal Scepter › Zhonya's Hourglass 63.0%27 games

Blackfire Torch › Plated Steelcaps › Rylai's Crystal Scepter › Zhonya's Hourglass 69.6%23 games

Blackfire Torch › Sorcerer's Shoes › Liandry's Torment › Zhonya's Hourglass 70.0%10 games

Blackfire Torch › Sorcerer's Shoes › Shadowflame › Zhonya's Hourglass 57.1%7 games

Rylai's Crystal Scepter › Plated Steelcaps › Winter's Approach › Unending Despair 71.4%7 games

Rylai's Crystal Scepter › Plated Steelcaps › Winter's Approach › Zhonya's Hourglass 0.0%6 games

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

Kaenic Rookern 71%7

Abyssal Mask 71%17

Spirit Visage 70%10

Rylai's Crystal Scepter 68%56

Force of Nature 63%16

Winter's Approach 62%21

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

Doran's Ring + Health Potion + Health Potion51.5%260

Doran's Helm + Health Potion58.0%138

Doran's Ring + Health Potion + Health Potion + Refillable Potion100.0%1

Boots

Plated Steelcaps ~13:3652.2%157

Mercury's Treads ~13:4858.7%104

Sorcerer's Shoes ~13:0062.3%61

Summoner spells

Exhaust + Flash53.1%228

Flash + Ghost57.8%154

Flash + Teleport21.4%14

Skills

Max

E53.6%338

Max

W54.0%63

Start

Q52.0%202

Start

W58.3%156

Runes · 403 games

Laid out like the game: the most picked rune in each row is in colour. Hover or tap a rune for its name, description and numbers.

Precision · 54% win · 325 games

Keystones

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100%54%

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19%64%

81%52%

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100%54%

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6%53%

40%53%

54%55%

Sorcery · 54% win · 148 games

50%51%

49%58%

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76%53%

7%70%

3%75%

3%60%

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12%44%

32%52%

30%56%

37%54%

52%54%

33%50%

16%59%

41%56%

22%47%

37%54%

Most played pages

51%35 games

44%27 games

61%18 games

60%15 games

67%15 games

Hard lanes

Watch out for Caitlyn, Aphelios, Jhin

Easy lanes

Good into Kai'Sa, Ezreal, Kalista

Every lane opponent · 10+ games

Behind at 15 against 8 of 12, still wins 6 of them

Expected: what Swain's and the opponent's overall win rates predict; the tick on each bar marks it. Rankings lean toward "even" until there are enough games.

Fewer than 10 games (20)

Ziggs 22% · 9

Yasuo 33% · 9

Lucian 78% · 9

Varus 50% · 8

Sivir 63% · 8

Corki 75% · 8

Viktor 38% · 8

Kog'Maw 57% · 7

Vayne 40% · 5

Hwei 80% · 5

Smolder 40% · 5

Xerath 20% · 5

Miss Fortune 50% · 4

Syndra 75% · 4

Aurelion Sol 50% · 4

Karthus 75% · 4

Ashe 50% · 4

Ekko 0% · 3

Heimerdinger 67% · 3

Mel 33% · 3

Swain vs Jhin · 32 games · Fair sample

Swain does worse than expected here

50%winsexpected 56%

+61gold at 15′average −95

−7.6minions at 10′ahead or behind

16%in on first bloodsolo kills +0.22 a game

Gold lead against Jhin Swain's average lead

Against Jhin, Swain is ahead on gold at 15 minutes in 56% of games and wins 61% of those. When behind, Swain wins 36%.

Ahead at 15′61% wins18 games

Behind at 15′36% wins14 games

Full Swain vs Jhin page · Coming soon

The rest of the game · 15+ games

Enemies that cost Swain games: Talon, Syndra, Lulu

Enemy top Trouble Nothing clear yet Easier

Jayce67% · exp. 55% +1215 games

Enemy jungle Trouble

Talon37% · exp. 51% −1419 games

Graves41% · exp. 56% −1517 games

Jarvan IV47% · exp. 56% −919 games

Easier

Qiyana62% · exp. 51% +1121 games

Lee Sin63% · exp. 54% +930 games

Lillia60% · exp. 54% +615 games

Enemy mid Trouble

Syndra43% · exp. 54% −1228 games

Galio44% · exp. 50% −616 games

Easier

Yasuo56% · exp. 51% +516 games

Yone58% · exp. 53% +419 games

Enemy support Trouble

Lulu42% · exp. 54% −1219 games

Janna44% · exp. 52% −916 games

Rakan48% · exp. 54% −621 games

Easier

Nautilus70% · exp. 57% +1320 games

Rell63% · exp. 51% +1219 games

Leona63% · exp. 52% +1016 games

Points above or below what both champions' overall win rates predict. Only differences that hold up after leaning small samples toward "even" are listed.

Dies less than most bot laners

Before 14 minutes Swain dies 2.1 times a game (average 2.7). 38% of those deaths involve the enemy jungler, against 37% for the average bot laner. 12% are fair 1-v-1s.

2.1deaths per game before 14′less than average (2.7)

38%involve the enemy junglerabout average (37%)

88%outnumbered (2+ enemies)about average (87%)

39%with no teammate nearabout average (38%)

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: 51% in your half of bot lane. Collapses: 65% in your half of bot lane. 1-v-1s: 51% in your 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 bot laner

What kills Swain

Kind of death

Swain Average

Gank 38% (avg 37%)Collapse 50% (avg 50%)1-v-1 12% (avg 13%)

Who gets the kill

Swain Average

Bot laner 51% (avg 50%)Jungler 20% (avg 21%)Support 14% (avg 16%)Mid laner 12% (avg 10%)Top laner 2% (avg 2%)

Gank clock

Ganks come at 3:00 and 5:00, then every minute

Swain Peak Average bot laner

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Ward the river before 3:00 and 5:00. 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: 2.4 kills per death in their half of bot lane against 0.7 in your half of bot lane. Overall 1.4 kills per death.

Your half of bot lane 0.7 K/D 357 / 491

Their half of bot lane 2.4 K/D 573 / 236

The bot-side river 1.9 K/D 128 / 68

Their jungle 5.0 K/D 45 / 9

Your jungle 1.4 K/D 27 / 19

Your half of mid 0.5 K/D 7 / 15

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 dragonsNo clear difference yetNear 29% of their team's dragon takes (average bot laner 33%). The team wins 68% when Swain is there and 70% when not.

Leaving laneNo clear difference yetFirst shows up in mid lane around 15:00 (average 15:00). Bot laners who get there by 14:00 win 54% against 47%; for Swain it is 56% against 52%.

Swain

What most Swain players run

Best when games end at 20–25′

Watch out for Caitlyn, Aphelios, Jhin

First tower: 76% against 31%

Fewer control wards, more assists

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

Watch out for Caitlyn, Aphelios, Jhin

Good into Kai'Sa, Ezreal, Kalista

Behind at 15 against 8 of 12, still wins 6 of them

Swain does worse than expected here

Swain does worse than expected here

Swain does better than expected here

About what you would expect

Swain does better than expected here

Swain does worse than expected here

Swain does better than expected here

Swain does worse than expected here

Swain does worse than expected here

Swain does better than expected here

Swain does better than expected here

About what you would expect

Enemies that cost Swain games: Talon, Syndra, Lulu

Teammates that change Swain's games

Dies less than most bot laners

Ganks and collapses both hit your half of bot lane

What kills Swain

Ganks come at 3:00 and 5:00, then every minute

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

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

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