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Everything for Swain Top on patch 16.11, pulled from real Emerald+ ranked games — the build path, rune pages, the counters worth banning, the strongest teammates, and Swain's win conditions.
Swain is a battle mage in the top, and on patch 16.11 they grade out as a solid mid-tier pick — a 51.0% win rate, 0.6% pick rate, 6,857 ranked games sampled. On the power curve, Swain is a scaling champion: comparatively weak early, but one of the strongest picks on the map once core items come online — so the plan is to survive the laning phase and take the game over late.
How Swain wins: grouped 5-v-5 teamfights, where Swain tips the fight. The kit grades 8/10 teamfighting. Play around where Swain is thin, disengage and split-push (3/10, 2/10), and the enemy loses their angle.
The most-played core build is Blackfire Torch, Rylai's Crystal Scepter, Zhonya's Hourglass, which holds a 59.9% win rate across 167 games this patch. Item order and defensive swaps update against whichever enemy comp you select.
The matchup to respect is Milio, where Swain sits at just 43.2%, the lane swings the other way into Sion (57.4%), and on the team side, Swain gains the most from a Xayah (+10.3% pair win rate).
Swain's highest-volume core items and rune page this patch. Select the enemy composition above and the build re-optimizes for that exact matchup.
Swain Top's worst matchups on patch 16.11, ranked by how often they win the lane. Ban these to smooth the game out.
Champions whose presence raises Swain's win rate most as Top, by pair WR delta over Swain's solo performance.
Best Jungle partners for Swain
Best Mid partners for Swain
Best ADC partners for SwainSwain is also played in these other roles this patch.
For full draft-time coaching with all 10 picks, use the Team Builder. To see Swain's tier on this patch, see the Tier List.
