Top · 101 games

Swain

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

Strongest when games end at 25–30 minutes (35%). On average ahead of the lane opponent at 15 minutes (+49 gold).

Win rate: 39.6%; ±9.5 · role avg 50.0%
Tier: D; #94 of 95
Pick rate: 0.5%; ban 0.8%
Games: 101; ranked solo/duo

Swain top wins 39.6% of 101 ranked games, rank 94 of 95 top champions (tier D). Most players finish Rylai's Crystal Scepter first, at about 11:30.

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 11:53 · 51% · 49 games

Boots

Plated Steelcaps 12:06 · 38% of games

Item 2

Winter's Approach 17:30 · 28% · 10 games

Item 3 · late game

Zhonya's Hourglass 26:18 · 8 of 42 games

Runes

Summon Aery · Sorcery + Precision 5% of games · 60% wins All runes →

Start

Doran's Ring + Health Potion 80% of games · 43% wins Other starts →

Spells

Flash + Teleport 41% of games · 34% wins Other spells →

Skill order

Max Death's Hand first 75% of games · 39% wins Skill orders →

When Swain wins

Best when games end at 25–30′

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

Ends before 25′39% wins38% of games · 38

Lasts 25′ or more40% wins62% of games · 63

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 Baron: 70% against 20%

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

First Baron 20% 70% +50

First tower 23% 57% +34

Rift Herald 22% 56% +33

First dragon 24% 53% +29

First blood 27% 54% +27

First Voidgrubs 42% 37% −5

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 assists, less damage to towers

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

More assists a game7.5 against 5.2 · +44%

Less damage to towers5108 against 8411 · −39%

Fewer solo kills a game1.3 against 2.1 · −35%

Fewer multikills a game0.28 against 0.41 · −32%

Fewer control wards a game0.48 against 0.68 · −29%

About average: time spent dead, deaths, minions, share of team damage.

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 ~11:30

Item 2done ~19:18

Item 3done ~25:30

Item 4done ~30:12

Most common full builds

Rylai's Crystal Scepter › Plated Steelcaps › Liandry's Torment › Zhonya's Hourglass 25.0%4 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

Liandry's Torment 43%7

Rylai's Crystal Scepter 25%8

Force of Nature 20%5

Winter's Approach 14%7

Zhonya's Hourglass 10%10

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 Potion43.2%81

Doran's Helm + Health Potion20.0%10

Health Potion + Health Potion + Tear of the Goddess0.0%4

Boots

Plated Steelcaps ~12:0634.2%38

Mercury's Treads ~14:3052.2%23

Boots of Swiftness ~12:2437.5%16

Summoner spells

Flash + Teleport34.1%41

Flash + Ghost51.3%39

Flash + Ignite33.3%12

Skills

Max

E39.5%76

Max

W40.0%25

Start

W34.1%44

Start

Q42.3%26

Runes · 101 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.

Sorcery · 40% win · 53 games

Keystones

74%38%

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9%40%

17%44%

2%0%

96%41%

2%0%

77%41%

13%29%

9%40%

92%39%

—

8%50%

Resolve · 40% win · 52 games

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44%43%

15%50%

40%33%

81%40%

8%50%

12%33%

39%38%

37%43%

25%36%

64%40%

26%38%

10%40%

51%35%

7%29%

42%48%

Most played pages

60%5 games

33%3 games

0%2 games

50%2 games

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

Before 14 minutes Swain dies 2.2 times a game (average 2.4). 47% of those deaths involve the enemy jungler, against 40% for the average top laner. 43% are fair 1-v-1s.

2.2deaths per game before 14′less than average (2.4)

47%involve the enemy junglermore than average (40%)

57%outnumbered (2+ enemies)more than average (49%)

81%with no teammate nearabout average (83%)

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 top lane

Ganks: 48% in your half of top lane. Collapses: 43% in your half of top lane. 1-v-1s: 58% in your half of top 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 top laner

What kills Swain

Kind of death

Swain Average

Gank 47% (avg 40%)Collapse 10% (avg 9%)1-v-1 43% (avg 51%)

Who gets the kill

Swain Average

Bot laner 2% (avg 2%)Jungler 29% (avg 24%)Support 2% (avg 2%)Mid laner 9% (avg 7%)Top laner 58% (avg 63%)

Gank clock

Ganks come at 7:00–10:00, then every minute

Swain Peak Average top laner

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Ward the river before 7:00. 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 top lane, loses them in your half of top lane

Before 14 minutes: 1.1 kills per death in their half of top lane against 0.5 in your half of top lane. Overall 0.8 kills per death.

Your half of top lane 0.5 K/D 55 / 116

Their half of top lane 1.1 K/D 81 / 71

The top-side river 0.8 K/D 13 / 16

Their jungle 2.4 K/D 12 / 5

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 17% of their team's dragon takes (average top laner 17%). The team wins 52% when Swain is there and 61% when not.

Leaving laneWorth knowingFirst shows up in mid lane around 16:00 (average 16:00). Top laners who get there by 14:00 win 51% against 50%; for Swain it is 45% against 37%.

Swain

What most Swain players run

Best when games end at 25–30′

No clear counters yet

First Baron: 70% against 20%

More assists, less damage to towers

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 top laners, and more of it is ganks

Ganks and collapses both hit your half of top lane

What kills Swain

Ganks come at 7:00–10:00, then every minute

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

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

Where fights happen