Swain is a powerful ARAM pick that can significantly impact the outcome of the games. He has the ability to poke, engage, and sustain through team fights and skirmishes. To make the most out of Swain, today we are gonna take a look at the highest win rate Swain ARAM build.
Best Swain ARAM Items
Liandry’s Torment
The first item we will want to pick up is the Liyandry’s Torment. The item will make our abilities do a percentage of HP damage, which will make us melt the enemies. Additionally, it will also enhance our HP, making us stronger and more ready for fights.
Malignance
The second item we are going to buy is the Malignance. It’s quite powerful as it will increase our mana, give us more damage, and it has a really cool passive. The bonus mana it gives will serve us well in the early-mid game, the damage from the AP will also come great, but most importantly the item will also give us a passive that will enhance our R damage. The passive damage will be applied to every enemy inflicted by our ultimate.
Spirit Visage
Swain is a champion that has a lot of healing built in his kit, to profit from this fact, we will definitely want to build Spirit Visage. Alongside giving us a massive magic resist and HP boost, Spirit Visage will also increase our healing by 25%.
Rylai’s Crystal Scepter
Rylai’s is a great item for Swain in ARAM. The item will add a significant slow to our abilities, that we will be able to apply to all enemies. Having enemies slowed will allow us to play around them more easily, to escape, and to take them down when opportunities arise.
Riftmaker
Riftmaker is an item that will enhance our damage more the longer we are in combat. Since Swain is quite a beefy champion, stacking this item will not be an issue. Therefore, we can confidently buy it, knowing that we will be able to utilize most of its power at all times.
Boots
The best boots for our AP Swain ARAM build are the Sorcerer’s Shoes. They will provide us with much-needed magic penetration. Some other options would be Ionian boots of Lucidity or defensive boots such as Mercury Treads and Plated Steelcaps.
Runes for Swain ARAM
- Conqueror
- Presence of Mind
- Legend: Haste
- Last Stand
- Conditioning
- Overgrowth
The best keystone rune for Swain will be the Conqueror. It’s easy to stack and it will give us plenty of extra damage and healing. We will also take Presence of Mind to increase our mana stores throughout the game.
The third rune we will want to take is Legend: Haste, since we need the cooldown reduction it provides. Next up, we will take Last Stand to deal more damage when we are low on HP. Finally, we will take Conditioning and Overgrowth, which will give us scaling armor and HP respectively.
Final Thoughts
To make the most out of the build we got, we will want to employ a specific playstyle. Namely, we will want to push waves as much as possible, and then poke the enemies when they are under their tower. When it comes to team fights, we should look to be the ones engaging them.
The build we will use to facilitate this gameplay is the one we outlined above, with Liandry, Spirit Visage, and Riftmaker being some of our core items, and Conqueror being our primary and most important rune.