Bard with Swain
How to Synergize Bard and Swain
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Bard Swain Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Bard and Swain
Tips for Playing as Bard with Swain
Don't forget that enemies can also use your Magical Journey doorways, and that your ultimate can also hit your allies!
Let your Caretaker's Shrines charge up - they heal for a lot more when at full power.
It's important to collect chimes to improve your meep's attacks, but don't neglect your lane partner! Try to make a big entrance by bringing an ally into the lane with you with Magical Journey.
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.
Bard Swain Synergy Stats
How to Play with Swain as Bard in LoL
The Bard 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, Bard sees a very large drop in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Swain. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This negative change shows that Swain helps Bard perform worse in competitive League of Legends rounds. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Bard plays on the same team as Swain, he sees a small increase in his total damage output. This change may indicate that Swain helps provide protection for him to deal more damage or that his participation also helps extend the match's duration. Similarly, when Bard is played alongside Swain on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing with Swain.
Additionally, when Bard plays with Swain on the same side, he usually takes a little less damage than when he plays alone. Taking not as much damage may indicate that Swain does a decent job of covering Bard in teamfights.
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Is Bard better when played alongside Swain?
There is no one best champion pairing for Bard that will 100% of the time be his ideal synergy. However, overall, Swain is a pretty good ally for Bard. By being on the same team as Bard, he increases their win rate by 2.4% to 54.7%. This signals that there is a somewhat important strategic relationship between Bard and Swain that allows them to perform stronger together than alone.
Swain has a lower difficulty than Bard. That means you don't need to be cautious when finding Swain allies to fight alongside, as they will have to have a lower level of skill to be able to fight well with you.
Playing alongside, you should expect to see an overall large increase in your team’s ability to to do a lot of AP damage. Together, these two can blast through enemies with magic damage.
Conversely, by bringing Bard and Swain together, you may not be giving your team a great deal of anti-tank damage dealing potential. Plan to bring other champions on your team that nullifies this relative disparity in their abilities.
Regardless of the skill of your Swain teammate, you should focus on maximizing your income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and clearing objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you should do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Bard to work well with Swain during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends matches, you should keep reading to master a few extra lessons on this champion pairing. If you use the build and suggestions displayed above, you should grow your win rate by a lot.
The most important items to prioritize in your Bard and Swain synergy build include Trailblazer, Knight's Vow, and Locket of the Iron Solari. When Bard included at least these three great items in his build, he performed a lot better when fighting alongside Swain than with many other typical item sets. In fact, Bard boasted an average winrate of 54.7% when playing alongside Swain with these items in his kit.
To have the greatest chance of vanquishing your oponents, you should equip the Fleet Footwork, Triumph, Legend: Tenacity, Last Stand, Conditioning, and Overgrowth runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the runes players chose for this team composition, this sequence of runes resulted in the top win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 54.7% winrate overall.
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