Swain vs Hwei Counter Pick
Matchup Summary
What the Data Means
In Support, this is Swain versus Hwei — a mage/support hybrid against a mage/support hybrid. 100 tracked games on 16.13.1 put Swain at a 35.0% win rate into Hwei. That is 15.0 points under even, which is why Hwei is listed among the champions Swain struggles into.
With both sitting in ranged range (525 against 550), neither side gets a free poke pattern.
Vision of Empire (W) and Spiraling Despair (R) are usually what decide a trade between Swain and Hwei. Demonic Ascension and Spiraling Despair are the two buttons that end the exchange outright.
This is a magic-versus-magic exchange between Swain and Hwei. Level-one bases: Swain 595 HP / 25 armour / 31 MR, Hwei 580 / 21 / 30. Scaling matters as well: Swain ends on 2278 HP, Hwei on 2433. On autos alone the numbers read 58 AD for Swain and 54 for Hwei.
Data here updates on its own rather than sitting as a fixed snapshot taken on 16.13.1.
FAQ
No — current data marks this as a counter matchup: Hwei has the statistical edge. Swain wins 35.0% of the recorded games.
35.0% from Swain's perspective, measured on patch 16.13.1.
100 ranked games at Emerald rank and above, across all regions.
The current Swain build — items, runes and skill order from the same data set — is on the Swain build page.