Renata Glasc vs Swain Counter Pick

Two champions rated 8 for difficulty meet here, and the 53.7% Renata Glasc records over 149 games logged under patch 16.13.1 comes from the shape of their win conditions rather than from raw statistics. Swain wants enemies close and grouped; Renata wants them isolated and thrown.

• Nevermove roots on its return trip and lets Swain pull rooted champions toward him. Handshake answers with a root of its own plus a recast that throws the target away, undoing the positioning he just bought.
• Demonic Ascension drains health from nearby champions, so Hostile Takeover arrives at the exact moment his targets are packed together for that drain.
• Ravenous Flock turns Soul Fragments into permanent maximum health, rewarding long fights; Bailout shortens them by making a committed trade resolve in one direction.

The stat comparison runs the other way. Swain holds 595 base health to 545, 31 magic resist to 30, and 2,278 health at level 18 to 2,143, so poking at his 525 range against her 550 is closer to even than the range gap suggests. Death’s Hand piercing through enemies and dealing more damage per bolt struck also makes standing behind a minion wave dangerous rather than safe. Fighting at the edge of his ultimate radius and using Loyalty Program’s slow to keep him there is the practical rule.