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Swain Build Guides, Runes and Items

Swain The Noxian Grand General

Find the best Swain build guides for League of Legends S12 Patch 12.15. The MOBAFire community works hard to keep their LoL builds and guides updated, and will help you craft the best Swain build for the S12 meta. Learn more about Swain's abilities, skins, or even ask your own questions to the community!

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Swain Build & Runes

If you're looking for the best rune build for Swain we've got you covered. Below you can find the best items and runes to build for Swain, as determined by calculations of thousands of Plat+ League of Legends games. If you are already familiar with how to play Swain this is a great resource to quickly get a good rune selection for Patch 12.15. However, if you are a new Swain player we highly recommend reading through some of the guides above to learn why this build is strong on Swain!

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Patch 12.14: 438954 matches scanned * Each section of the build is rated independently of the others

Precision

Resolve

Second Best

55%

Win Rate 1633 Games

Precision

Resolve

Third Best

60%

Win Rate 91 Games

Precision

Resolve

Second Best

55%

Win Rate 7478 Games

Third Best

51%

Win Rate 4305 Games

Second Best

51%

Win Rate 2734 Games

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56%

Win Rate 2126 Games

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54%

Win Rate 6023 Games

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56%

Win Rate 4180 Games

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Passive Ability

Second Best

67%

Win Rate 716 Games

Passive Ability

Third Best

71%

Win Rate 304 Games

Passive Ability

Patch 12.14: 438954 matches scanned * Each section of the build is rated independently of the others

Domination

Inspiration

Second Best

49%

Win Rate 1631 Games

Domination

Inspiration

Third Best

60%

Win Rate 67 Games

Domination

Resolve

Second Best

49%

Win Rate 5387 Games

Third Best

63%

Win Rate 54 Games

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52%

Win Rate 3222 Games

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46%

Win Rate 3488 Games

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47%

Win Rate 415 Games

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Passive Ability

Second Best

68%

Win Rate 357 Games

Passive Ability

Third Best

68%

Win Rate 71 Games

Passive Ability

Patch 11.20: 494917 matches scanned * Each section of the build is rated independently of the others

Domination

Inspiration

Second Best

52%

Win Rate 550 Games

Precision

Domination

Third Best

54%

Win Rate 133 Games

Precision

Domination

Second Best

53%

Win Rate 902 Games

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50%

Win Rate 937 Games

! Small Sample Size Warning * There is either not a lot of games played on this champion or the builds vary greatly, we have provided the top build but it does not have a high confidence rating so use your own discretion.

Second Best

100%

Win Rate 3 Games

Third Best

33%

Win Rate 3 Games

Second Best

51%

Win Rate 1264 Games

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55%

Win Rate 767 Games

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Passive Ability

Second Best

Win Rate 1 Games

Passive Ability

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100%

Win Rate 1 Games

Passive Ability

Patch 12.14: 438954 matches scanned * Each section of the build is rated independently of the others

Precision

Resolve

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56%

Win Rate 227 Games

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53%

Win Rate 340 Games

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Resolve

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52%

Win Rate 1775 Games

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Win Rate 1111 Games

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56%

Win Rate 323 Games

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49%

Win Rate 778 Games

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53%

Win Rate 1132 Games

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54%

Win Rate 843 Games

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Passive Ability

Second Best

71%

Win Rate 126 Games

Passive Ability

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70%

Win Rate 125 Games

Passive Ability

Swain Counters

Learn 's counters and discover matchups where they have an advantage! When you're starting a game of League of Legends you should always keep in mind if you'll be at an advantage or disadvantage against your opponent, so you can know whether to bully them or play safe. You can find detailed breakdowns of each matchup on CounterStats, and you can also check out some Swain guides to see how to build and play against other champions you may find yourself up against!

This counter data is for Swain Mid in Plat+ games. The percent shown is the enemy champion's counter rating against Swain. Counter rating is our own statistic that factors in counter kills, overall kills, early lead ratio, comeback ratio, and win percent to give the whole picture of that champion's effectiveness as a counter pick.

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CR is Counter Rating, which is a combination of multiple counter factors. Counters shown are for Swain Swain Mid

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Swain Skins

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Find Swain's skins and when they were last on sale. Never miss a sale for your favorite skin by using our Wish List feature! You can also find all Swain skins and chromas on Swain's skins page.

Skin Release Wishlist Popularity Cost

Crystal Rose Swain

Special Events

February 11, 2021

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1350

Hextech Swain

Hextech Crafting

December 12, 2019

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Dragon Master Swain

February 22, 2018

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1350

Tyrant Swain

May 23, 2012

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1350

Northern Front Swain

October 5, 2010

+ Wishlist

750

Classic Swain

Original

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Bilgewater Swain

October 5, 2010

+ Wishlist

520

Swain's Abilities

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Ravenous Flock Swain's Passive

1125

Swain collects soul fragments from Vision of Empire, Nevermore, and enemy champion deaths. Soul fragments restore 4 / 5.5 / 7 / 9% max health (based on level) and permanently grant Swain 12 max health.

Death's Hand Swain's Q Ability

725

65 / 70 / 75 / 80 / 85

9 / 7.5 / 6 / 4.5 / 3

Swain unleashes eldritch bolts, dealing 55 / 75 / 95 / 115 / 135 (+40% of ability power) magic damage plus 15 / 20 / 25 / 30 / 35% damage per bolt past the first damage.

Vision of Empire Swain's W Ability

7500

70 / 80 / 90 / 100 / 110

22 / 21 / 20 / 19 / 18

Swain opens a demon eye, revealing a location for 1.5 seconds, then deals 80 / 120 / 160 / 200 / 240 (+70% of ability power) magic damage and slows by 25 / 35 / 45 / 55 / 65% for 2.5 seconds. Champions hit grant Swain a Soul Fragment and are revealed for 4 / 5 / 6 / 7 / 8 seconds.

Nevermove Swain's E Ability

850

Swain launches a wave of demonic power, dealing 35 / 70 / 105 / 140 / 175 (+25% of ability power) magic damage. The wave then returns, detonating on the first enemy hit dealing 35 / 45 / 55 / 65 / 75 (+25% of ability power) damage and rooting enemies in an area for 1.5 seconds.

Demonic Ascension Swain's Ultimate (R) Ability

650

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Swain frees the demon within for 12 seconds, gaining 125 / 200 / 275 (+5 for each Soul Fragment) max health and doubling the health collected with Soul Fragments. Swain deals 35 / 50 / 65 (+14.167% of ability power) magic damage each second and restores 20 / 35 / 50 (+16% of ability power) health per target damaged, reduced by 90% against non-champions. Swain then prepares a Recast.

Recast: Swain unleashes a demonflare, ending the transformation and dealing 100 / 150 / 200 (+50% of ability power) plus 75% of healing from this Ability as magic damage (max 200 / 300 / 400 (+100% of ability power) damage).

Demonflare Swain's Ultimate (R) Ability

675

Swain unleashes a nova of soulfire, dealing a minimum of 100 / 150 / 200 (+50% of ability power) magic damage to all nearby enemies, plus 75% of the health Swain drained during Demonic Ascension. Demonflare's damage is capped at 200 / 300 / 400 (+100% of ability power).

Demonflare is automatically cast at the end of the Demonic Ascension duration, which can be ended early by recasting the ability.

Questions About Swain

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Latest Questions

How to play against Swain?

Asked by Hamstertamer on March 26, 2018

The combination of [[nevermove]] + [[ravenous flock]] is basically an instant cast [[death sentence]] that hits you through creeps on a 9 second cooldown. His ultimate is literally just press R win teamfight, and he can always force a fight...

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Is new Swain good?

Asked by LeBlanco on February 5, 2018

I've played a bit of new Swain on the PBE with mixed results, while I'm not sure what to build on him yet I'm leaning towards a AP/Health type build (like old swain). While Swain is fun he doesn't seem to be doing the damage I feel like he should,...

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Swain skin

Asked by Skidush on January 15, 2015

Is there any news about the Dragon Master Swain skin? Wasn't that discussed a few years before? I'm itching to get that one. (Don't get me wrong, Tryrant Swain is the shizz).

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Least played champions?

Asked by dudm on April 30, 2014

I have just been curios guys about why some champions are not played that much. I know that unpopular picks like swain, galio, mao'kai, and yorick are all strong picks in their respective fields. What I am trying to get to in this is why some...

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Swain's time to shine

Asked by Balzarinn on January 20, 2014

I have a hunch that Swain will rise in popularity with all the innovation that has been going on in the LCS, both in the middle and top lane. I was wondering if you could help me find the best runes and build, but currently I like this one alot:...

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Shouldn't Tear of the Goddess work with Swain?

Asked by FalseoGod on December 5, 2012

So the new [[tear of the goddess]] says "whenever mana is spent" or something like that, but when I used it on [[Swain]] it wouldn't work whenever I toggled [[ravenous flock]]. Isn't it supposed to?

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Ravenous Flock (PASSIVE)

Death's Hand (Q)

Vision of Empire (W)

Nevermove (E)

Demonic Ascension (R)

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Ravenous Flock (PASSIVE)

Death's Hand (Q)

Vision of Empire (W)

Nevermove (E)

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Ravenous Flock (PASSIVE)

Death's Hand (Q)

Vision of Empire (W)

Nevermove (E)

Demonic Ascension (R)

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Swain's Ability Order

Ravenous Flock (PASSIVE)

Death's Hand (Q)

Vision of Empire (W)

Nevermove (E)

Demonic Ascension (R)

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Ravenous Flock (PASSIVE)

Death's Hand (Q)

Vision of Empire (W)