Swain·Top Build

Most Popular

If you want to use the most popular Swain Top build, you should take Flash and Teleport as your Summoner Spells. For runes, you should pick Conqueror as your keystone, followed by Presence of Mind, Legend: Tenacity and Last Stand in the primary tree, as well as Conditioning and Overgrowth in the secondary tree. For rune shards, you want Adaptive Force in offense, Adaptive Force in flex and Health Scaling in defense, though it depends on the matchup. Finally, for your items, you should build Malignance as your first item, followed by Sorcerer's Shoes and Rylai's Crystal Scepter. For your last 3 items, you should build Zhonya's Hourglass, Liandry's Torment and finish with Spirit Visage. For the skill order, you want to stick with Q - W - E. Right now, this build has 52.1% winrate over 572 matches played.

Alternative

If you're looking for alternatives, you can use Ghost and Teleport as your Summoner Spells, with runes being Conqueror as your keystone, Presence of Mind, Legend: Tenacity and Last Stand in the primary tree, and Conditioning with Overgrowth in the secondary tree, as well as Adaptive Force, Adaptive Force, and Health Scaling as your rune shards. The items that this build incorporates are Rylai's Crystal Scepter as your first item, then Plated Steelcaps as a second item and Malignance as a third item. You want to finish the build with Zhonya's Hourglass, Spirit Visage and Liandry's Torment. As far as ability max order goes, you want to keep it Q - W - E. This build is currently sitting at a 52.6% win rate across 175 matches played.

Off-Meta

If you want to try an Off-Meta Swain Top build in the current patch, try Ghost and Teleport as your Summoner Spells, Phase Rush, Manaflow Band, Transcendence and Gathering Storm as your primary rune tree, and Conditioning with Overgrowth as your secondary tree. Use Adaptive Force, Adaptive Force and Health Scaling as your shards. For items in this build, you want to complete Malignance as your first item, then finish Plated Steelcaps as your second item, and Rylai's Crystal Scepter as third item. The last 3 options are Zhonya's Hourglass, Morellonomicon and Unending Despair. The ability order for this build is Q - W - E. As of the current patch, this build has a 44.4% win rate over 54 matches played.

Situational Swain Runes and Items

Depending on the context of your game, your matchup, and enemy champions, you might want to consider building some situational items or take specific runes. Carefully examine your team, enemy team, game state , and your matchup to plan your Swain build accordingly! For example, when it comes to rune shards, you might want to take either Armor or Magic Resist, depending on which champion you are about to lane against.