Soraka vs Swain Counter Pick

Two sustain sources face off in this matchup, and Soraka can only shut down one of them. Swain recovers through Soul Fragments from Ravenous Flock and gains permanent maximum health as he does, while Demonic Ascension keeps draining life from each enemy nearby for the full length of the form. Soraka doesn’t win by out-healing him. She wins by cutting off his casts: Equinox silences anyone inside it, and a silenced Swain can’t use Demonflare or drag over the champions held by Nevermove. Starcall’s slow makes that zone simpler to set up.

• Soraka has the range edge, 550 units to 525. It’s a slim gap, but it is enough to hit Starcall without walking into Death’s Hand.
• Swain’s damage is magic and his starting magic resistance is 31, just one above Soraka’s 30, so cooldown timing decides the trade more than raw stats.
• Swain rates eight for difficulty and Soraka rates three, and that gap is most obvious when Nevermove misses, since that is his only dependable way to open a fight.

At level 18 the health totals are 2,278 for Swain and 2,101 for Soraka, and he runs at 330 movement speed to her 325. He begins with 58 base attack damage against her 50, which decides the early level-one trade and barely matters afterward. The overall picture stays the same: over 699 games on patch 16.13.1, Soraka takes 56.1 percent of games against Swain, which earns an easy rating because Wish lands before the drain can finish.