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!
Swain's Runes
Second Best
Win Rate 1633 Games
Third Best
Win Rate 91 Games
Swain's Summoner Spells
Swain's Starters
Second Best
Win Rate 2734 Games
Trinket
Second Best
Win Rate 6023 Games
Third Best
Win Rate 4180 Games
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Swain's Core Items
Boots
Swain's Luxury Items
Swain's Ability Order
Ravenous Flock (PASSIVE)
Passive Ability
Second Best
Win Rate 716 Games
Ravenous Flock (PASSIVE)
Passive Ability
Third Best
Win Rate 304 Games
Ravenous Flock (PASSIVE)
Passive Ability
Swain's Runes
Second Best
Win Rate 1631 Games
Third Best
Win Rate 67 Games
Swain's Summoner Spells
Swain's Starters
Trinket
Second Best
Win Rate 3488 Games
Third Best
Win Rate 415 Games
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Swain's Core Items
Boots
Swain's Luxury Items
Swain's Ability Order
Ravenous Flock (PASSIVE)
Passive Ability
Second Best
Win Rate 357 Games
Ravenous Flock (PASSIVE)
Passive Ability
Third Best
Win Rate 71 Games
Ravenous Flock (PASSIVE)
Passive Ability
Swain's Runes
Second Best
Win Rate 550 Games
Third Best
Win Rate 133 Games
Swain's Summoner Spells
Swain's Starters
Second Best
Win Rate 3 Games
Trinket
Second Best
Win Rate 1264 Games
Third Best
Win Rate 767 Games
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Swain's Core Items
Boots
Swain's Luxury Items
Swain's Ability Order
Ravenous Flock (PASSIVE)
Passive Ability
Second Best
Win Rate 1 Games
Ravenous Flock (PASSIVE)
Passive Ability
Third Best
Win Rate 1 Games
Ravenous Flock (PASSIVE)
Passive Ability
Swain's Runes
Second Best
Win Rate 227 Games
Third Best
Win Rate 340 Games
Swain's Summoner Spells
Swain's Starters
Third Best
Win Rate 778 Games
Trinket
Second Best
Win Rate 1132 Games
Third Best
Win Rate 843 Games
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Swain's Core Items
Boots
Swain's Luxury Items
Swain's Ability Order
Ravenous Flock (PASSIVE)
Passive Ability
Second Best
Win Rate 126 Games
Ravenous Flock (PASSIVE)
Passive Ability
Third Best
Win Rate 125 Games
Ravenous Flock (PASSIVE)
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.
Best Against Swain
Worst Against Swain
Swain Skins
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Swain's Abilities
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 is automatically cast at the end of the Demonic Ascension duration, which can be ended early by recasting the ability.
Questions About Swain
Latest Questions
How to play against Swain?
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...
Is new Swain good?
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,...
Swain skin
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).
Least played champions?
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...
Swain's time to shine
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:...
Shouldn't Tear of the Goddess work with Swain?
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?