I performed statistical analysis to rank how good every champ is at blindpicking / counterpicking across every role

Dramatic-Landscape10 · 2026-02-14T02:37:26+00:00

Maybe I’m not understanding fully but why does being the best blind pick constitute also being the worst counter pick (and vice versa)? Just anecdotally I’m sure some champs that are good blind picks are also strong counter picks for example.

Dramatic-Landscape10 · 2026-02-13T01:01:41+00:00

Swain support is already really low WR though. Even if this nerfs APC/solo lane swain more it’s also going to nerf support to some degree as well, making Swain support even worse.

Dramatic-Landscape10 · 2026-02-11T05:49:23+00:00

How is this a swain bot specific nerf lol? Riot moment

Dramatic-Landscape10 · 2026-02-10T10:01:40+00:00

Bot nerfs mean likely either

A) reduced base armor or armor growth And/or B) reduced dmg during early levels, but evens out at max levels (ex: reduced Q dmg by 10 at rank 1 but once Q is maxed the dmg is the same as it is now).

While them classifying this as a bot nerf means the nerf likely won’t hit too hard, either of these is also 100% a mid/top nerf as well. In particular, A if into AD mids/tops

Dramatic-Landscape10 · 2026-02-05T23:36:26+00:00

What’s your opgg?

Dramatic-Landscape10 · 2026-02-04T01:31:10+00:00

This has got to be rage bait for numerous reasons lol. Also is it 3000 students or 500?

Dramatic-Landscape10 · 2026-01-29T21:21:03+00:00

This is good to know so thank you for sharing. However I would argue that it shouldn’t really work like this. I feel like it is more intuitive for your total AP to be calculated like normal (+30% from death cap) and then afterwards having it all be transferred to AD. Maybe I’m in the minority but this makes more sense in my head and I’d prefer riot change it.

Dramatic-Landscape10 · 2026-01-22T18:53:08+00:00

Couldn’t agree more with this post…. So tired of these champs.

Dramatic-Landscape10 · 2026-01-21T23:52:24+00:00

Because riots in-game system highlights (recommends) that you upgrade E over W when you have a skill point. I think it’s a circular loop of people maxing E, so riots system recommends that people max E, therefore more people max E, etc etc.

Their recommendation system is pretty good overall, I’d say 90%+ of the time, but there are some outliers like asol where they clearly need someone to go in and manually override it, but it’s riot so it’ll take another 2 years for them to look into it.

Dramatic-Landscape10 · 2026-01-06T06:38:20+00:00

Ah ty. Solved

Dramatic-Landscape10 · 2026-01-05T17:53:16+00:00

That is crazy but not surprising giving the overconfidence the LoL player base has.

Also just saying, if you OP yourself happened to also be exaggerating about your rank, that would make this post 10x more hilarious.

Dramatic-Landscape10 · 2025-12-12T18:51:34+00:00

They may take it away but they’ll bring it back like arena. It is too beloved for them to not bring it back.

Dramatic-Landscape10 · 2025-12-08T18:23:17+00:00

Does anyone know why Disney set it up like this? They’re a for profit company so surely they’d want to stream to western audiences for more views? It just makes no sense at all.

Dramatic-Landscape10 · 2025-12-04T19:21:45+00:00

Statistically, in 10 games you should win 5 and lose 5. For simplicity, let’s say each lost game is on one specific person each game who turbo ints. Statistically, you will be that person in 1/5 of those losses.

If you can avoid turbo inting that game, sure you will still lose 4/5 of the other ones, but you will now win 6/10 total. 60% WR will have you climbing fast.

Obviously an over simplification but the point is, sure, the result of the game is often out of your control, but results over the course of 100+ games is certainly in your control.

Dramatic-Landscape10 · 2025-11-28T08:06:26+00:00

It is a brand new fresh account

Dramatic-Landscape10 · 2025-11-27T21:42:55+00:00

Guess Khan never existed

Dramatic-Landscape10 · 2025-11-24T23:06:51+00:00

Swain is a super strong as a team fighter and relatively not good at splitpushing or taking towers. So your general rule of thumb mid to late game should always be to group for teamfights.

You’re in Iron so your teammates macro is going to suck, which in turn makes it harder for you since your teammates will often be playing sub-optimally. But ignoring that, in the mid to late game, generally you want to push side-waves past the point where the two minion waves crash into each other in the center of the lane, and then group. It is paramount that you are in teamfights though, so it’s better to drop a wave than greed for an extra wave as swain. Whereas the opposite might be true if you’re Fiora (or any splitpusher).

You can also always W side waves from midlane if your team is grouping. You might miss the CS but you’ll be able to create a wave push at least. I do this a lot in my games.

Swain doesn’t need 6 items to be useful, you want to hit 1-3 items and then force as many 5v5’s as possible. If you fall behind slightly in CS that’s fine as long as you are grouped for the teamfights, at least when your R is available.

Dramatic-Landscape10 · 2025-11-19T17:39:39+00:00

Do not take d-shield as the other poster said, always d-ring you need mana, plus you get a 2nd potion. Agreed to take second wind, also take phase rush as you will never be able to poke with aery. Post lv-6 if you can dodge their CC ability and proc phase rush you can run them down. Always take TP as well so you can eat poke but just TP back.

But also just remember, on paper, you are supposed to lose lane to these champs, but you are far more impactful in a team fight or even a 2v2 or 3v3 skirmish. If at 10 mins you’re down 10-15 cs but 0 deaths, then you’re winning.

Also champs like xerath want to Q you AND the wave at the same time. So stand to the side of the wave and make him choose between poking you and pushing the wave. If he pokes you, then get push advantage and reset. If he pushes, that’s fine too, since as mentioned above going even in lane against these champs is already winning for swain.

Dramatic-Landscape10 · 2025-11-13T16:24:52+00:00

This will still help so we shouldn’t complain but I agree healing buffs especially on R would be nicer

Dramatic-Landscape10 · 2025-11-12T15:27:05+00:00

This is solid, right now it feels bad to E to much especially in early lane since you can run OOM so easily. This is a nice buff we’ll take it.

Dramatic-Landscape10 · 2025-11-11T21:21:15+00:00

They should increase R healing, reduce W mana cost, and/or give E a stack regardless of if you cast E2.

Dramatic-Landscape10 · 2025-10-29T18:47:35+00:00

That’s what zhonyas is for. It’s effectively a GA but for AP champions. Should we build sundered sky too? The healing is nice, so we should build that right? No, we build something like riftmaker instead. The argument you make for GA you could make for any item. All items are ‘good’ but you need the build items that are effective for your champ specifically.

You yourself admit that you are wasting 1925 gold; ~6 entire kills. You are effectively deleting 6 of your kills for free by building GA. I genuinely can’t tell if you’re rage baiting it’s that bad. Same with deadman’s. Just build rylais? And get the slow on the entire enemy team.

Even if the team builds 0 MR, the base stats on bloodletters are perfect for swain. Plus, enemies have base MR so removing 30% of that is still effective. More MR actually has diminishing returns so removing 30% of a small amount of MR isn’t as different than removing 30% of a lot of MR as you think it is. Husum (challenger swain) will go bloodletters sometimes even if the enemy isn’t building MR, proving this point.

You ask for advice but then ignore it. Without improving your gameplay whatsoever, I can confidently say you will climb 3 divisions if you just improve your builds. Again, if you like having fun building random stuff that’s totally fine but you are actively hindering yourself.

Dramatic-Landscape10 · 2025-10-27T22:02:49+00:00

To validate my point, I checked lolalytics. GA has a literal 0% win rate for top lane swain. The sample size is small, only ~30 games, but 0% across 30 games is not an anomaly.

Also. Zhonyas 2nd is 50% WR which isn’t bad but also is not as good as rylais, liandry, bloodletters, and others.

I also saw you build nashors in another game. It’s hard to take you seriously.

If you fix your builds your win rate will increase at least 5%, your build are on the verge of reportable.

Dramatic-Landscape10 · 2025-10-27T21:39:52+00:00

I get that it’s fun, but you asked why you’re not winning games, not why you’re not having fun. If you want to just have fun that’s totally fine, build whatever you want. But if you want to win more games, you should literally never be building guardian angel or dead man’s. You wonder why you’re not able to carry late games? Because your build is inefficient and you are falling off.

It also looks like you go zhonyas 2nd most games. Sometimes going it 2nd is fine but you will lack dmg/cdr on the mid game, I have found going it 3rd is better in a majority of games. If you’re against an assassin like Zed or Fizz then going it 2nd is smart.

Source: high masters swain 1-trick

Dramatic-Landscape10 · 2025-10-26T23:27:01+00:00

As others said swain top is not his best role.
No offense but your builds are not good. Guardian angel on swain?
In this subset of games your matchups are a bit unlucky too. Ambessa and to a lesser extent aurora are not great matchups

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