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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 S13 Patch 13.19. The MOBAFire community works hard to keep their LoL builds and guides updated, and will help you craft the best Swain build for the S13 meta. Learn more about Swain's abilities, skins, or even ask your own questions to the community!
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[12.5] Updated Swain Hyper Carry [ALL LANES]
[12.5] Updated Swain Hyper Carry [ALL LANES]
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Off meta Swain
Off meta Swain
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Spicy Swain
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holyphoneix swain
holyphoneix swain
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[12.9] Swain = FREELO
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Swain Top [12.8]
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Suswain (Sustain Swain) Build
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Swain Mid God
Swain Mid God
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swain raid boss
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Swain Bottom Lane Season 12 Hyper Carry
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Glacial Augment Swain
SoulSapper Swain
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In-Depth Swain Guide (NOT FINISHED WORK IN PROGRESS)
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Full Tank Swain
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Ultimate Swain Sup Build (Greedy)
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Swain in new season: Swain SP
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Drain Tank Swain
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SwainGOD
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stream challenge
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Swain is funne
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 13.19. 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!
* Each section of the build is rated independently of the others
Swain's Runes
49%
Win Rate 39% Pickrate
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Second Best
49%
Win Rate 27% Pickrate
Third Best
50%
Win Rate 15% Pickrate
Swain's Summoner Spells
49%
Win Rate 81% Pickrate
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- 3
Swain's Starters
49%
Win Rate 92% Pickrate
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Swain's Core Items
57%
Win Rate 16% Pickrate
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- 3
Boots
Swain's Luxury Items
Swain's Ability Order
49%
Win Rate 39% Pickrate
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- 2
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Ravenous Flock (PASSIVE)
Passive Ability
Second Best
49%
Win Rate 26% Pickrate
Ravenous Flock (PASSIVE)
Passive Ability
Third Best
46%
Win Rate 6% Pickrate
Ravenous Flock (PASSIVE)
Passive Ability
* Each section of the build is rated independently of the others
Swain's Runes
55%
Win Rate 75% Pickrate
- 1
- 2
- 3
Second Best
52%
Win Rate 6% Pickrate
Third Best
54%
Win Rate 5% Pickrate
Swain's Summoner Spells
54%
Win Rate 76% Pickrate
- 1
- 2
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Swain's Starters
54%
Win Rate 94% Pickrate
- 1
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- 3
Swain's Core Items
61%
Win Rate 33% Pickrate
- 1
- 2
- 3
Boots
Swain's Luxury Items
Swain's Ability Order
54%
Win Rate 49% Pickrate
- 1
- 2
- 3
Ravenous Flock (PASSIVE)
Passive Ability
Second Best
53%
Win Rate 16% Pickrate
Ravenous Flock (PASSIVE)
Passive Ability
Third Best
56%
Win Rate 12% Pickrate
Ravenous Flock (PASSIVE)
Passive Ability
* Each section of the build is rated independently of the others
Swain's Runes
52%
Win Rate 63% Pickrate
- 1
- 2
- 3
Second Best
51%
Win Rate 11% Pickrate
Third Best
55%
Win Rate 7% Pickrate
Swain's Summoner Spells
52%
Win Rate 57% Pickrate
- 1
- 2
- 3
Swain's Starters
51%
Win Rate 90% Pickrate
- 1
- 2
- 3
Swain's Core Items
58%
Win Rate 24% Pickrate
- 1
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- 3
Boots
Swain's Luxury Items
Swain's Ability Order
52%
Win Rate 48% Pickrate
- 1
- 2
- 3
Ravenous Flock (PASSIVE)
Passive Ability
Second Best
51%
Win Rate 15% Pickrate
Ravenous Flock (PASSIVE)
Passive Ability
Third Best
54%
Win Rate 12% Pickrate
Ravenous Flock (PASSIVE)
Passive Ability
* Each section of the build is rated independently of the others
Swain's Runes
51%
Win Rate 58% Pickrate
- 1
- 2
- 3
Second Best
52%
Win Rate 12% Pickrate
Third Best
51%
Win Rate 6% Pickrate
Swain's Summoner Spells
52%
Win Rate 55% Pickrate
- 1
- 2
- 3
Swain's Starters
52%
Win Rate 77% Pickrate
- 1
- 2
- 3
Swain's Core Items
59%
Win Rate 16% Pickrate
- 1
- 2
- 3
Boots
Swain's Luxury Items
Swain's Ability Order
50%
Win Rate 30% Pickrate
- 1
- 2
- 3
Ravenous Flock (PASSIVE)
Passive Ability
Second Best
52%
Win Rate 21% Pickrate
Ravenous Flock (PASSIVE)
Passive Ability
Third Best
53%
Win Rate 19% Pickrate
Ravenous Flock (PASSIVE)
Passive Ability
Swain Counters
Learn Swain'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 SUPPORT 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
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.
Our Wish List feature will send you notifications when your skins are on sale!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?
