Corki with Swain
How to Synergize Corki and Swain
based on 1,080 Corki with Swain pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Corki Swain Synergy Summary
Best Corki vs Swain Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Corki and Swain
Tips for Playing as Corki with Swain
Valkyrie can be used defensively as well, so try using it for a quick escape.
Phosphorus Bomb can be used to reveal enemy units that might be hiding in a nearby patch of brush.
Corki can continue to attack while using Gatling Gun. Maximizing Gatling Gun is key to mastering Corki.
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.
Corki Swain Synergy Stats
How to Play with Swain as Corki in LoL
The Corki 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, Corki sees a very large drop in his 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 Corki perform poorer in ranked League of Legends games. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Corki tries to synergize with Swain, he observes a little decrease in his total damage dealt. This difference may signal that Swain does not support by providing protection for him to dish out more damage or that his participation also helps increase the match's duration. Similarly, when Corki is played alongside Swain on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing alongside Swain.
Moreover, when Corki plays with Swain on the same side, he usually takes a little less damage than when he plays alone. Receiving not as much damage could mean that Swain does a decent job of covering Corki in team fights.
Synergies between Corki and Swain
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Is Corki better when played alongside Swain?
There is no one best champion pairing for Corki that will always be his #1 teammate. Yet, overall, Swain is a relatively poor ally for Corki. By locking into the same side as Corki, he decreases their win rate by -1.7% to 46.4%. This signals that there is a harmful synergy between Corki and Swain that results in them performing worse together than alone.
Swain has a greater difficulty than Corki. That means Corki players must be careful when arranging Swain teammates to fight alongside, as they will need a greater level of skill to be able to work well with you.
Working together, Corki players should expect to see an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to to do a lot of AP damage. Together, these champs can blast through enemies with magic damage.
In contrast, by grouping Corki and Swain together, you probably will not be granting your team enough crowd control. We recommend you have other champions on your team that offsets this disparity in their kit.
Regardless of your Swain ally's skill level, you need to focus on increasing your gold income, warding to avoid ambushes, and taking down objectives. If you do this, you will do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To truly master Corki in order to work well with Swain during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends rounds, you should keep reading to master some more tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and tips shown here, you should grow your win rate significantly.
The best finished items to include in your Corki and Swain synergy build include Muramana, Spear of Shojin, and Eclipse. When Corki combined at least these three finished items in his build, he performed much better when fighting alongside Swain than with many other common builds. In fact, Corki boasted an average winrate of 46.4% when playing alongside Swain with this build.
To have the highest chance of annihilating your oponents, you should equip the First Strike, Magical Footwear, Biscuit Delivery, Cosmic Insight, Bone Plating, and Overgrowth runes from the Inspiration and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the rune sets that we analyzed for this champion pairing, this sequence of runes resulted in the best win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 46.4% winrate overall.
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