Swain

the Noxian Grand General

MidPatch 16.20Emerald 2+Solo queue

Win rate

50%

Pick rate

Ban rate

Games

515

Runes

Summoner spells

Flash + Ghost
43%48%223
Flash + Teleport
30%48%155
Exhaust + Flash
19%60%96

Starting items

Leaving the fountain

Doran's Ring, Health Potion, Health Potion
44%51%227
Doran's Ring, Health Potion, Health Potion, Stealth Ward
43%51%219
Doran's Helm, Health Potion
6.0%—31

Core build

First three legendaries, in order

Blackfire Torch → Rylai's Crystal Scepter → Zhonya's Hourglass
5.4%—28

Boots

Mercury's Treads
38%53%198
Plated Steelcaps
27%49%141
Sorcerer's Shoes
10%42%53

Later items

Not enough games run this long yet to say what goes in the last slots.

Abilities

Most-taken ability at each level

Max order·Death's Hand → Vision of Empire → Nevermove

83%52%427

Level by level

SplitEveryone

The most common ability to level at each level, one to eighteen
	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18
Q		Q		Q	Q		Q		Q
W			W					W		W		W	W
E	E													E	E		E	E
R						R					R					R

Q › E › W5% of games— win

Matchups

No lane opponent has come up 60 times yet. Counters need a bigger sample than builds do — a few points either way is noise until then.

Counted from 54,302 ranked solo queue matches played on patch 16.20 by Emerald 2+ players on EUW, read from Riot's match API. Percentages are shares of the games in this lane, not of the builds listed — so three rows adding to less than 100% means the rest of the games did something else. Win rates are hidden where there are too few games to state one.