Anivia with Swain
How to Synergize Anivia and Swain
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Anivia Swain Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Anivia and Swain
Tips for Playing as Anivia with Swain
Timing Flash Frost with Frostbite can lead to devastating combinations.
It can be very difficult for enemy champions to kill her egg early in game. Seize the advantage by playing aggressively.
Anivia is extremely reliant on Mana for Glacial Storm. Try getting items with Mana or going for a Crest of the Ancient Golem buff on Summoner's Rift.
Advice to Understand How Swain Will Play
While laning, try to use Death's Hand's piercing damage to damage opponents from a safe distance.
Vision of Empire is quite difficult to land on its own, look for skirmishes around the map where enemies may be distracted or crowd controlled so you can land it more easily.
If you're having trouble rooting an enemy with Nevermove, try throwing it at opponents when they are near their minions so the explosion surprises them.
Demonic Ascension may make Swain very hard to kill but he's pretty easy to get away from. Try building items that can slow opponents to keep them in range if their mobility is overwhelming.
Anivia Swain Synergy Stats
How to Play with Swain as Anivia in LoL
The Anivia Swain synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of her gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Swain, compared to her overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how her gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Anivia sees a very large drop in her KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Swain. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This decrease shows that Swain helps Anivia perform not as well in competitive League matches. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Anivia is paired with Swain, she gets a barely noticable drop in her full damage output. This difference may demonstrate that Swain does not help cover for her to deal more damage or that his participation also helps increase the game's duration. Similarly, when Anivia is played alongside Swain on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when she plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing synergisticly with Swain.
Moreover, when Anivia plays with Swain on the same team, she on average receives a little more damage than when she plays alone. Taking more damage could mean that Swain does a poor job of covering Anivia in teamfights.
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Is Anivia better when played alongside Swain?
There is no top champion pairing for Anivia that will 100% of the time be her top ally. However, Swain is a very typical companion for Anivia. By being on the same team as Anivia, he increases their win rate by 0.5% to 51.4%. This clearly indicates that there is a weak bond between Anivia and Swain that results in them performing better together than alone.
Swain has a lower difficulty than Anivia. That means you don't need to be very careful when enlisting Swain comrades to fight alongside, as they will have to have a lower level of skill to be able to cooperate well with you.
Working together, Anivia players will likely see an overall large increase in your team’s capability to to do a lot of AP damage. When paired, these two can deal quite a lot of AP type damage.
Conversely, by pairing Anivia and Swain together, you probably will not be granting your other teammates very much sustained damage output. Plan to bring other champions on your team that helps cover this gap in this pairing's abilities.
Regardless of the skill of your Swain ally, you need to focus on maximizing your gold income, outlasting your enemies, and clearing objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you should do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to truly master Anivia in order to work well with Swain during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends matches, you should keep reading to pick up some more lessons on this champion pairing. If you mind the build and stats presented above, you should grow your win rate significantly.
The best finished items to prioritize in your Anivia and Swain synergy build consist of Seraph's Embrace, Malignance, and Liandry's Torment. When Anivia used at least these three pieces in her build, she performed significantly better when fighting alongside Swain than with many other common item sets. In fact, Anivia boasted an average win rate of 51.4% when synergizing her build and playstyle to Swain with these items in her kit.
To have the greatest likelihood of defeating your oponents, Anivia players should equip the Electrocute, Cheap Shot, Eyeball Collection, Relentless Hunter, Presence of Mind, and Coup de Grace runes from the Domination and Precision rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations players used for this team composition, this combination of runes resulted in the highest win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 51.4% win rate overall.
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