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Swain Build Guides, Runes, Items, and Abilities - Patch 14.21
Swain The Noxian Grand General
Find the best Swain build guides for League of Legends S14 Patch 14.21. The MOBAFire community works hard to keep their LoL builds and guides updated, and will help you craft the best Swain build for the S14 meta. Learn more about Swain's abilities, skins, or even ask your own questions to the community!
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"My **** is Hungry!"
"My **** is Hungry!"
"Eating The Enemy" A Swain Guide
Ravenous Craven
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Swain - The Encyclopedia of Ravens
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The Tyrant of Mid Lane
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Birds will overcome all, So use that ult - Swain Guide [WIP]
Jericho Swain - the Master Tactician - Update in Progress
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The Master Tactician - Jericho Swain Ranked Guide (Season 3)
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Enemy Has Been Swain ~ Secrets of the Bird
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[S3] - Swain Solotop/Mid - Tactician Of The Year!
[S3] - Swain Solotop/Mid - Tactician Of The Year!
Swain - mid lane domination and teamfighting.
Swain - The Underrated Carry!
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Swain, dominating the lane
AP mid Swain guide: Master the raven master!
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Swain Build - Ulti them back to the Base
Raven Morphing Swain ~ The Midlane Morphing Monster [ON PROG
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Swain 950+ AP - Flippin' That Bird
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too op for you
super saian swain
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My very personal swain guide
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 14.21. 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
45%
Win Rate 39% Pickrate
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- 3
Second Best
45%
Win Rate 26% Pickrate
Third Best
44%
Win Rate 9% Pickrate
Swain's Summoner Spells
45%
Win Rate 76% Pickrate
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- 3
Swain's Starters
44%
Win Rate 91% Pickrate
- 1
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- 3
Swain's Core Items
59%
Win Rate 4% Pickrate
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- 2
- 3
Boots
Swain's Luxury Items
Swain's Ability Order
46%
Win Rate 40% Pickrate
- 1
- 2
- 3
Ravenous Flock (PASSIVE)
Passive Ability
Second Best
43%
Win Rate 20% Pickrate
Ravenous Flock (PASSIVE)
Passive Ability
Third Best
44%
Win Rate 7% Pickrate
Ravenous Flock (PASSIVE)
Passive Ability
* Each section of the build is rated independently of the others
Swain's Runes
48%
Win Rate 53% Pickrate
- 1
- 2
- 3
Second Best
47%
Win Rate 14% Pickrate
Third Best
48%
Win Rate 11% Pickrate
Swain's Summoner Spells
47%
Win Rate 75% Pickrate
- 1
- 2
- 3
Swain's Starters
47%
Win Rate 93% Pickrate
- 1
- 2
- 3
Swain's Core Items
56%
Win Rate 8% Pickrate
- 1
- 2
- 3
Boots
Swain's Luxury Items
Swain's Ability Order
46%
Win Rate 32% Pickrate
- 1
- 2
- 3
Ravenous Flock (PASSIVE)
Passive Ability
Second Best
49%
Win Rate 14% Pickrate
Ravenous Flock (PASSIVE)
Passive Ability
Third Best
47%
Win Rate 13% Pickrate
Ravenous Flock (PASSIVE)
Passive Ability
* Each section of the build is rated independently of the others
Swain's Runes
45%
Win Rate 48% Pickrate
- 1
- 2
- 3
Second Best
46%
Win Rate 13% Pickrate
Third Best
44%
Win Rate 9% Pickrate
Swain's Summoner Spells
46%
Win Rate 75% Pickrate
- 1
- 2
- 3
Swain's Starters
46%
Win Rate 87% Pickrate
- 1
- 2
- 3
Swain's Core Items
49%
Win Rate 4% Pickrate
- 1
- 2
- 3
Boots
Swain's Luxury Items
Swain's Ability Order
44%
Win Rate 19% Pickrate
- 1
- 2
- 3
Ravenous Flock (PASSIVE)
Passive Ability
Second Best
44%
Win Rate 13% Pickrate
Ravenous Flock (PASSIVE)
Passive Ability
Third Best
45%
Win Rate 13% Pickrate
Ravenous Flock (PASSIVE)
Passive Ability
* Each section of the build is rated independently of the others
Swain's Runes
49%
Win Rate 59% Pickrate
- 1
- 2
- 3
Second Best
47%
Win Rate 16% Pickrate
Third Best
47%
Win Rate 10% Pickrate
Swain's Summoner Spells
47%
Win Rate 42% Pickrate
- 1
- 2
- 3
Swain's Starters
48%
Win Rate 94% Pickrate
- 1
- 2
- 3
Swain's Core Items
56%
Win Rate 11% Pickrate
- 1
- 2
- 3
Boots
Swain's Luxury Items
Swain's Ability Order
47%
Win Rate 33% Pickrate
- 1
- 2
- 3
Ravenous Flock (PASSIVE)
Passive Ability
Second Best
51%
Win Rate 18% Pickrate
Ravenous Flock (PASSIVE)
Passive Ability
Third Best
56%
Win Rate 11% 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
Rooting a champion allows Swain to reactivate this ability to pull all champions rooted by Nevermove toward him, gaining a Soul Fragment for each.
Recast: After 2 seconds and every 8 seconds thereafter, Swain can cast Demonflare while transformed, which deals 150 / 250 / 350 (+50% of ability power) magic damage and slows enemies by 75%, decaying over 1.5 seconds.
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?
