Aphelios with Swain
How to Synergize Aphelios and Swain
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Aphelios Swain Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Aphelios and Swain
Tips for Playing as Aphelios with Swain
Each of Aphelios' weapons have different strengths, so try to find the right situation for your current weapons.
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.
Aphelios Swain Synergy Stats
How to Play with Swain as Aphelios in LoL
The Aphelios Swain synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Swain, compared to his overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how his gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Aphelios sees a very large drop in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Swain. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Swain helps Aphelios perform not as well in competitive League of Legends games. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Aphelios plays on the same team as Swain, he gets a barely noticable drop in his full damage output. This change may signal that Swain does not help protection for him to dish out more damage or that his participation also helps extend the game's duration. Similarly, when Aphelios is played together with Swain on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays without Swain. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing synergisticly with Swain.
Moreover, when Aphelios plays with Swain on the same team, he on average takes a little less damage than when he plays alone. Getting dealt not as much damage could mean that Swain does a decent job of covering Aphelios in team fights.
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Is Aphelios better when played alongside Swain?
There is no one best champion pairing for Aphelios that will always be his ideal teammate. Yet, Swain is a pretty good companion for Aphelios. By locking into the same team as Aphelios, he increases their win rate by 1.6% to 50.2%. This demonstrates that there is a good strategic relationship between Aphelios and Swain that results in them performing at the top of their game together than alone.
Swain has a lower difficulty than Aphelios. That means Aphelios players don't need to be very careful when enlisting Swain comrades to fight alongside, as they will need a lower level of skill to fight well with you.
Fighting together, you should expect to observe an overall large increase in your team’s ability to deal magical damage. When paired, these two can blast through enemies with magic damage.
Conversely, by bringing Aphelios and Swain together, you will not be granting your other teammates a lot of utility. We recommend you have other champs on your team that neutralizes this relative disparity in their playstyle.
Regardless of your Swain ally's skill level, you should focus on increasing your gold income, warding to avoid ambushes, and clearing objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you will do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to truly master Aphelios in order to synergize with Swain during both the early game and mid / late game phases of LoL matches, you should continue reading to pick up some more tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you use the build and stats shown above, you will increase your win rate by a lot.
The most important items to get in your Aphelios and Swain synergy build include Lord Dominik's Regards, Bloodthirster, and Kraken Slayer. When Aphelios bought at least these three items in his build, he performed a lot better as an ally of Swain than with most other common item sets. In fact, Aphelios had an average win rate of 50.2% when playing alongside Swain with this build.
To have the best chance of defeating your oponents, Aphelios players should equip the Lethal Tempo, Overheal, Legend: Bloodline, Cut Down, Absolute Focus, and Gathering Storm runes from the Precision and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations players chose for this team composition, this blending of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 50.2% winrate overall.
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