Caitlyn with Swain
How to Synergize Caitlyn and Swain
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Caitlyn Swain Synergy Summary
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Tips for Playing as Caitlyn with Swain
Fire 90 Caliber Net away from the opponent to close the gap or hop over walls.
Avoid using Ace in the Hole in large team melees as it might be blocked by the wrong target.
Make use of her Yordle Snap Traps by placing them pre-emptively to ensure that you'll have one off of cooldown during combat.
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.
Caitlyn Swain Synergy Stats
How to Play with Swain as Caitlyn in LoL
The Caitlyn 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, Caitlyn 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 drop shows that Swain helps Caitlyn perform poorer in ranked LoL matches. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Caitlyn is paired with Swain, she observes a little decrease in her total damage dealt. This difference may signal that Swain does not help cover for her to dish out more damage or that his support also helps increase the round's duration. Similarly, when Caitlyn is played alongside Swain on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when she plays without Swain. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing synergisticly with Swain.
Additionally, when Caitlyn plays with Swain on the same team, she typically receives a little less damage than when she fights alone. Getting dealt not as much damage could mean that Swain does a decent job of protecting Caitlyn in teamfights.
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Is Caitlyn better when played alongside Swain?
There is no perfect companion for Caitlyn that will no matter what be her top teammate. However, Swain is a very typical companion for Caitlyn. By playing on the same team as Caitlyn, he improves their win rate by 0.7% to 50.0%. This signals that there is a weak synergy between Caitlyn and Swain that results in them performing at the top of their game together than alone.
Swain has a greater difficulty than Caitlyn. That means you need to be careful when arranging Swain allies to go into battle on the same side as, as they will need a greater level of skill to cooperate well with you.
When playing together, you should observe an overall large increase in your team’s capability to deal magical damage. Combined, these two can blast through enemies with magic damage.
In contrast, by pairing Caitlyn and Swain together, you may not be giving your team a lot of crowd control. Make sure to include other champs on your team that neutralizes this relative hole in their playstyle.
Regardless of your Swain ally's ability, you need to focus on increasing your income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, 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
To truly master Caitlyn to synergize with Swain during both the lane and mid / late game phases of LoL games, you should continue reading to master some more lessons on this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and tips displayed above, you will grow your win rate by a lot.
The top finished items to focus on in your Caitlyn and Swain synergy build include Infinity Edge, Stormrazor, and The Collector. When Caitlyn incorporated at least these three finished items in her build, she performed a lot better when fighting alongside Swain than with many other commonly used builds. In fact, Caitlyn boasted an average winrate of 50.0% when synergizing her build and playstyle to Swain with this build.
To have the greatest likelihood of crushing your oponents, you should use the Fleet Footwork, Presence of Mind, Legend: Bloodline, Cut Down, Absolute Focus, and Gathering Storm runes from the Precision and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the rune builds players chose for Caitlyn and Swain pairings, this mixture of runes yielded the highest win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 50.0% win rate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to team up Swain with Caitlyn are presented for all skill levels combined. To scope the statistics and builds to an individual player tier, you may use the selection menu located earlier in the counter matchup guide.