Swain
Figures on this page are from League of Legends patch 16.18.1.
The win, pick, and ban rate figures here are a third-party League of Legends statistics provider's aggregation of match data that originates with Riot Games — Riot doesn't itself publish win-rate statistics. See how it works for the method, including the per-tier noise-width (σ) calibration Should I Dodge publishes on top of that raw data — how far a rate actually sits from meaningless, not something the provider itself measures.
| Role | Win Rate | Pick Rate |
|---|---|---|
| Top | 49.4% | 0.6% |
| Mid | 51.4% | 0.6% |
| ADC | 53.0% | 0.7% |
| Support | 49.1% | 4.4% |
About 4.0% of games at this tier see Swain banned before anyone even picks a role — one number for the whole champion, not something that genuinely differs lane to lane. It's shown here alongside Swain's Support numbers, the highest-pick-rate role, purely because that's the row this page leads with. Why isn't this broken down by role?
Swain's Support win rate is 0.9 percentage points below an even 50% — Should I Dodge's win-probability model varies by about 4.8 percentage points of standard deviation from lobby to lobby across all ranks, purely from which champions get drawn, so this gap is smaller than that noise, not solid evidence the champion is unusually strong or weak right now.
Swain is tracked in 4 roles at this tier scope; the per-tier, threat, and counters reporting below all use its highest-pick-rate role, Support — its numbers in Top (0.6% pick rate), Mid (0.6% pick rate), and ADC (0.7% pick rate) stay visible in the table above but aren't carried into the rest of this page.
Swain's Support Win Rate By Tier
| Tier | Win Rate | Pick Rate | Edge (noise-widths) | Clears 0.5σ? |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Iron | 49.5% | 4.8% | 0.07σ | No |
| Bronze | 50.6% | 5.7% | 0.10σ | No |
| Silver | 50.2% | 5.6% | 0.03σ | No |
| Gold | 48.9% | 5.0% | 0.20σ | No |
| Platinum | 48.4% | 4.1% | 0.32σ | No |
| Emerald | 48.2% | 3.1% | 0.40σ | No |
| Diamond | 48.1% | 2.2% | 0.44σ | No |
| Master | 49.3% | 1.7% | 0.16σ | No |
| Grandmaster | 43.3% | 1.3% | 0.89σ | Yes |
| Challenger | 53.9% | 0.9% | 0.31σ | No |
Swain's Support win rate ranges from 43.3% at Grandmaster to 53.9% at Challenger across the 10 of 10 ranked tiers with published data for this role — a 10.5-point spread. Measured against each tier's own noise floor, that's 0.31σ at Challenger and 0.89σ at Grandmaster, with only the Grandmaster figure clearing the 0.5σ bar Should I Dodge itself requires before calling a reading anything but Neutral. See how noise-widths are calculated and what they mean for each rank.
Should I Dodge's curated read has Swain's power curve as a late-game lean — a community-consensus judgment about where the champion's power peaks, not measured win-rate-by-duration data (the stats source doesn't publish that).
Should I Dodge's curated read flags Swain's kit as carrying healing, hard crowd control, and poke — a community-consensus judgment about what the kit threatens, not measured win-rate data, and the same read behind the counter-build suggestions on the analyzer.
Should I Dodge maintains Swain's scaling lean and kit-threat reads above by hand, one champion at a time, across the whole roster — not generated from the win-rate numbers on this page, and not refreshed automatically when those numbers move.
Who Counters Swain?
Matchups below are for Swain's Support role -- its highest-pick-rate lane, played in 4.4% of its recorded games at this tier.
Champions That Counter Swain
| Champion | Win Rate vs Swain | Edge (noise-widths) |
|---|---|---|
 Brand |
55.4% | 1.12σ |
 Janna |
55.1% | 1.07σ |
 Nami |
54.6% | 0.96σ |
 Zilean |
54.5% | 0.94σ |
 Soraka |
54.5% | 0.94σ |
Champions Swain Counters
| Champion | Win Rate vs Swain | Edge (noise-widths) |
|---|---|---|
 Mel |
46.2% | 0.79σ |
 Nautilus |
46.4% | 0.76σ |
 Camille |
47.1% | 0.60σ |
 Ashe |
47.2% | 0.58σ |
 Maokai |
47.3% | 0.57σ |
The stats source lists at most five champions in each direction for Swain: the 5 that counter it here lean sustain-heavy, with a tight, 1-point spread — none of them stand out much from the others among them, while 5 favourable matchups round out the picture — most matchups you could actually face simply aren't covered.
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Learn more: what a champion win rate actually means and why the same win rate means different things at different tiers.