Patch 11.8 Support

Swain Build and Runes

Swain build guide, best Swain runes and items to use in Patch 11.8. This Swain Support build for LoL is based on win rates and meta popularity. Use this Swain build guide to statistically win more games in League.

Games analyzed

77,864

Win %

52.12%

Pick %

4.37%

Ban %

2.98%

Kills

59.12

Deaths

Assists

Skill Priority

Spells & Items

Summoner Spells

Starting Build (Winrate)

End-game Build (Winrate)

Runes

Primary

Domination

Secondary

Sorcery

Other Support champions

Janna

53.4%See build

Leona

52.5%See build

Thresh

51.3%See build

Maokai

53.1%See build

Bard

51.9%See build

Lulu

51.3%See build

Yuumi

50.2%See build

Swain

51.9%See build

Swain build in Patch 11.8

Find out the best Swain build by following the statistics on this page. You are more likely to perform better in your games by following this build.

The most winning Swain build involves a skill priority of Death's Hand Death's Hand Vision of Empire Vision of Empire Nevermove Nevermove , running a Domination | Sorcery rune set-up and taking Flash Flash Ignite Ignite as summoner spells.

Start your Swain build off by running Spellthief's Edge Spellthief's Edge Health Potion Health Potion , progressing that into Liandry's Anguish Liandry's Anguish Sorcerer's Shoes Sorcerer's Shoes Demonic Embrace Demonic Embrace Rylai's Crystal Scepter Rylai's Crystal Scepter Rabadon's Deathcap Rabadon's Deathcap Cosmic Drive Cosmic Drive , But remember to pick the correct situational items depending on game factors such as enemy composition.

Swain runes in Patch 11.8

Primary Runes

Here are the best Swain runes for this build. Take Electrocute Electrocute as your keystone in the Domination rune tree. The remaining slots in your primary tree should be the Cheap Shot Cheap Shot Ghost Poro Ghost Poro Ravenous Hunter Ravenous Hunter runes.

Secondary Runes

Swain's secondary runes should be in the Sorcery rune tree, taking the Absolute Focus Absolute Focus Scorch Scorch runes.

As far as your shards go, take CDRScaling CDRScaling Adaptive Adaptive HealthScaling HealthScaling . Following these runes for Swain will help you in your games. Make sure to make situational changes to your runes depending on team comps and counters.