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Top [13.23] Swain Top Matchup Guide!!!

Updated on November 22, 2023

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Recommended Items

Rod of Ages

Plated Steelcaps

Rylai's Crystal Scepter

Zhonya's Hourglass

Frozen Heart

Demonic Embrace

Runes: Standard runepage

1 2 3 4

Precision

Conqueror

Presence of Mind

Legend: Tenacity

Last Stand

Resolve

Conditioning

Overgrowth

Bonus:

+10% Attack Speed
+9 Adaptive (5.4 AD or 9 AP)
+65 Base Health

Sorcery

Phase Rush

Manaflow Band

Transcendence

Gathering Storm

Resolve

Conditioning

Overgrowth

Bonus:

+10% Attack Speed
+9 Adaptive (5.4 AD or 9 AP)
+65 Base Health

Domination

Electrocute

Cheap Shot

Eyeball Collection

Ultimate Hunter

Sorcery

Manaflow Band

Scorch

Bonus:

+9 Adaptive (5.4 AD or 9 AP)
+9 Adaptive (5.4 AD or 9 AP)
+65 Base Health

Resolve

Grasp of the Undying

Demolish

Conditioning

Overgrowth

Precision

Presence of Mind

Legend: Tenacity

Bonus:

+10% Attack Speed
+9 Adaptive (5.4 AD or 9 AP)
+65 Base Health

Spells:

1 2

99% Of the matchups

Ghost

Teleport

Against juggernauts

Flash

Ghost

Items

First 10 minutes

Start of the Game

Doran's Ring

Corrupting Potion

Cheater recall

Refillable Potion

Doran's Ring

Amplifying Tome

Dark Seal

First Back

Catalyst of Aeons

Lost Chapter

Seeker's Armguard

Boots

Sorcerer's Shoes

Mercury's Treads

Plated Steelcaps

Boots of Swiftness

Rest of the Build

Mythics

Liandry's Torment

Rod of Ages

Jak'Sho, The Protean

Core Items

Rylai's Crystal Scepter

Demonic Embrace

Optional items.

Anathema's Chains

Cosmic Drive

Frozen Heart

Force of Nature

Gargoyle Stoneplate

Morellonomicon

Rabadon's Deathcap

Seraph's Embrace

Spirit Visage

Zhonya's Hourglass

Void Staff

Abyssal Mask

Full Builds

Standard full build

Liandry's Torment

Sorcerer's Shoes

Rylai's Crystal Scepter

Demonic Embrace

Zhonya's Hourglass

Spirit Visage

Into Heavy AD

Rod of Ages

Plated Steelcaps

Rylai's Crystal Scepter

Zhonya's Hourglass

Frozen Heart

Demonic Embrace

Into Heavy AP

Liandry's Torment

Mercury's Treads

Rylai's Crystal Scepter

Abyssal Mask

Spirit Visage

Demonic Embrace

Full AP

Liandry's Torment

Sorcerer's Shoes

Rylai's Crystal Scepter

Shadowflame

Rabadon's Deathcap

Void Staff

Jaksho

Jak'Sho, The Protean

Mercury's Treads

Rylai's Crystal Scepter

Archangel's Staff

Zhonya's Hourglass

Spirit Visage

Into Tanks

Liandry's Torment

Sorcerer's Shoes

Rylai's Crystal Scepter

Demonic Embrace

Void Staff

Rabadon's Deathcap

Ability Order Standard

Threats & Synergies

Threats

Synergies

Extreme Major Even Minor Tiny

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None Low Ok Strong Ideal

Extreme Threats

Ideal Synergies

Fiora

Extreme

[Conqueror or Phase rush] this is a very rough matchup, the early levels are fine and you can get a lead, but after she reaches 2 items she oneshots and outheals you, my personal permaban.

Gwen

Extreme

[Conqueror] phase rush does nothing into her cause shes immune so sorry bro your skill issue doesnt allow it.
She is mostly a problem in the early-midgame, once you get your MR you can stomp her in an extended trade, but still CARE FOR HER TRUE DMG.

Camille

Extreme

[Conqueror or Grasp]. She isnt a big problem in lane at all, but once she reaches divine, man. she will outheal you every trade. so get early antiheal and pray you can bully her enough to get a big lead, or you will NEVER recover.

Kled

Extreme

[phase rush or conq] **** this guy. you dont seeh im often but that antiheal on his Q is cancer. you cannot win the early game, so sit back and scale. pray for some CS, because if het gets onto you he wont let go and if he goes lethality he will also 100-0 you. in the midgame you start to outscale him and you can destroy him.

Irelia

Extreme

[Grasp or conq] this champ is full build at 1 item. ask your jungler nicely to gank her, if he does this matchup becomes free, still care for her BOTRK spike. You can harras her freely in lane but once she gets that item, you cannot walk up untill 2-3 items.

Olaf

Extreme

[take phase rush] you cannot do this matchup witout phase rush or he will jsut get onto you and run you down without counterplay. after lv11 you win super hard.

Sylas

Extreme

[Take conqueror] this matchup is just a straight up counterpick he uses your R better then you do. I personally dont encounter him often but if you do, try to harras him and bully him and NEVER engage pre6 fights while he has your R stolen.

Riven

Major

[Conqueror or phase rush] she is super mobile and can easily 100-0 you lv 6. but the levels 1-5 are yours. take care she allways runs ignite. and you win post 3 items.

Darius

Major

[phase rush] this is a hard matchup but once you get the hang of it its not as bad. you need flash ghost and phase rush just to be able to kite him, if you burn his ghost you can play super agressive because he cannot do anything unless you play dumb and get hit by apprehend. Lategame is yours. just zhonyas the R

Akali

Major

[Conqueror or Grasp] this would be a 5 on mid but because the lane is longer there is more room to punish her, especialy since you destroy her after getting spirit visage 3th.

Yone

Major

[Conq or grasp] play very passive lv 1 because of lethal tempo, q spam him from range.if you get through the early game, you win, be sure to get zhonyas second to block his dumb *** E dmg.

Kayle

Major

[Grasp or conqueror] bully her as hard as you can cause post 16 its over. you win every stage of the game before that.

Vayne

Major

[Electrocute] Bully her with electrocute as hard as you can and get a lead, go full AP cause if you dont, she will make you look like you went full AP without the dmg.

Akshan

Major

[Electrocute] Easier then vayne but still rough, His E is annoying to deal with so Q spam his *** proc electrocute as much as you can and he cant sustain. you stomp him lategame.

Aatrox

Even

[Conq] fun skill matchup, get antiheal and pray he doesnt, then its free. You can win at every stage of the game, so can he.

Rumble

Even

[Grasp or Conqueror] the matchup can go south of he kills you once. but that shouldnt happen. so just play agressive and keep the poke up, he has no sustain only a shield.

Garen

Even

[Phase rush] Keep your distance and spam q and E, if he gets onto you with Q E stridebreaker, its over unless you ulter/have zhonyas. His ult will execute you.

Illaoi

Even

[Conq or phase rush] take phase if you arent sure, you need to kite her ult a bit and use phase to walk out of it if needed, get zhonyas 3rd or second and you should be fine.

Urgot

Even

[grasp/Conq] just dont let him R you. He can deal a lot of dmg so dont underestimate him. if you get to 4 items you can easil win, but still care for all his sshred.

Gnar

Even

[Conqueror] just be sure to take second wind, lategame you win as long as he doesnt ult your entire team. but in lane its pretty much even. if you get stacks count yourself lucky since he is ranged.

Sett

Even

[Grasp or conq] his Q and R can deal a lot of dmg, if he goes blade, he can be dangerous but he is also super squishy so you can delete him if played right, get zhonyas to dodge his W

Yasuo

Even

[grasp or conq] Rough early game because of his dumb e dashes, get frozen heart and you win from the midgame onward.

Pantheon

Even

[Grasp or Conq] be sure to take boneplating since it hard counters his empowered W. He can shred you especialy with Ignite, however he cant deal with you permanently stacking HP, get a frozen heart and demolish him after level 6

Quinn

Even

[Electrocute] You can demolish her in lane, she can however deal with your ult pretty easily before you get rylais. She can also perma roam so be sure to punish it with the turret gold.

K'Sante

Even

[Conqueror or grasp] Matchup can go both ways. He is still annoying even after the nerfs. I would recommend rushing liandry rylais and getting some armor. The rest is the usualy build, fights are usualy pretty even, but be sure to shotgunblast him with q after his Ult.

Jayce

Minor

[Conqueror or grasp] pretty easy to deal with but care after 2 items, since his dmg starts to skyrocket and he can 100-0 your if you dont watch out.

Kennen

Minor

[Electrocute or Grasp] His dmg is very easy to deal with, just be sure to get an early spirit visage and he wont be a problem at any point of the game.

Jax

Minor

[conqueror] Even though this champ is ******edly strong rn, i dont really have problems with him myself. you can q spam his face, and if you get frozen heart and spirit visage 3th-4th he should never be able to beat you. just dont underestimate his dmg.

Volibear

Minor

[Grasp] very easy matchup, just care if he goes AP cause he can dish out a ton of dmg.

Yorick

Minor

[Conqueror or Grasp] matchup is pretty easy, just as long as you dodge his E, that makes him literally useless. just be sure to care for him split pushing your entire lane to victory

Tryndamere

Minor

[Phase rush or grasp] If he cant kill you during his R he loses, which happens to happen every time after you get rylais.

Teemo

Tiny

[electrocute] This rat is useless

Malphite

Tiny

[Conqueror or grasp] One of the easiest champs to deal with, he was meant to counter AD, so unless you go crit swain he is super easy.

Maokai

Tiny

[Grasp] stack free grasp, get a visage and free win every single trade.

Sion

Tiny

[grasp] FREE WIN. you can perma stack on him, get a liandry and his passive kills him faster.

Cho'Gath

Tiny

[Grasp] just care for his R burst you should easily destroy him however

Ornn

Tiny

[Grasp or conqueror] dont get 100-0 by his max HP dmg, also his w can dodge your E pull so you wont have as much stacks but he cant really kill you usually.

Shen

Tiny

[Grasp or conq] just bully him, he can never fight you unless he has a jungler.

Singed

Tiny

[Conqueror] Get ready for a PVE game. he cant deal with you so he will proxy farm most likely getting your jungler free kills

Tahm Kench

Tiny

[Grasp] Free stacks, he can never really deal with you, his ult keeps your ult going as well so pretty easy all things considered.

Dr. Mundo

Tiny

[Grasp] His passive is a bit annoying since you cant E him but you do deal extra dmg for hitting an E so thats pretty good!, he does outheal you full build but his R doesnt last forever like yours ;)

Gangplank

Tiny

[Grasp or phase rush] phase rush you can use to just run him down, but be sure to take ghost ignite if you do that. You outranger him so killing barrels is easy just care for post lv 13 ghost barels since they will do tons of dmg.

Nasus

Tiny

[Phase rush] be sure to build swifties and he would never be able to kill you, also get plated steelcaps to reduce his Q dmg and rush antiheal.

Synergies

Ideal Strong Ok Low None

Swain counters well

4 CR

4.2 CR

4.2 CR

Swain gets countered

6.8 CR

6.8 CR

6.6 CR

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Introduction!

Hey all! you can call my Aura, I am a swain top main and i have been spamming him for a couple of years now, so since i dont find many decent guides up here, i will be posting this and updating it with the comming season 14 changes.

Swain is an amazing teamfight carry toplaner that i love to show to you all! i might be adding a more detailed guide section here later if this guide gets enough traction but for now all info is in the guide and i hope it helps you!

Swain counters well

4 CR

4.2 CR

Swain gets countered

6.8 CR

6.6 CR

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Recommended Items

Runes: Standard runepage

Spells:

Ghost

Teleport

Flash

Ghost

Items

Ability Order Standard

Ravenous Flock (PASSIVE)

Death's Hand (Q)

Vision of Empire (W)

Nevermove (E)

Demonic Ascension (R)

Threats & Synergies

Fiora

Gwen

Camille

Kled

Irelia

Olaf

Sylas

Riven

Darius

Akali

Yone

Kayle

Vayne

Akshan

Aatrox

Rumble

Garen

Illaoi

Urgot

Gnar

Sett

Yasuo

Pantheon

Quinn

K'Sante

Jayce

Kennen

Jax

Volibear

Yorick

Tryndamere

Teemo

Malphite

Maokai

Sion

Cho'Gath

Ornn

Shen

Singed

Tahm Kench

Dr. Mundo

Gangplank

Nasus

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