Galio with Swain
How to Synergize Galio and Swain
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Galio Swain Synergy Summary
Best Galio vs Swain Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Galio and Swain
Tips for Playing as Galio with Swain
You can release Shield of Durand even while crowd controlled.
You can use the minimap ally icons to cast Hero's Entrance.
You can use the step back from Justice Punch to dodge enemy spells.
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.
Galio Swain Synergy Stats
How to Play with Swain as Galio in LoL
The Galio 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, Galio sees a large worsening in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Swain. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This decrease shows that Swain helps Galio perform not as well in competitive League rounds. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Galio plays on the same team as Swain, he gets a barely noticable drop in his full damage dealt. This may demonstrate that Swain does not help protection for him to deal more damage or that his participation also helps increase the round's duration. Similarly, when Galio 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 Galio plays with Swain on the same side, he on average receives a little more damage than when he fights alone. Receiving more damage may indicate that Swain does a poor job of covering Galio during teamfights.
Synergies between Galio and Swain
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Is Galio better when played alongside Swain?
There is no one best ally for Galio that will always be his #1 ally. Yet, Swain is a very typical teammate for Galio. By being on the same team as Galio, he drops their win rate by -0.1% to 50.5%. This signals that there is only a small bond between Galio and Swain that results in them performing not as well together than without each other.
Swain has a greater difficulty than Galio. That means Galio players need to be very careful when lining up Swain teammates to go into battle on the same side as, as they will have to have a greater level of skill to be able to fight well with you.
When playing together, you will likely see an overall large increase in your team’s capability to tank a lot of damage. Together, these champs will be able to tank for the rest of their team.
Although, by bringing Galio and Swain together, you will not be giving your team enough AD. Make sure to bring other champs on your team that nullifies this gap in their potential.
Regardless of the skill of your Swain teammate, you should focus on maximizing your 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
If you would like to truly master Galio to pair well with Swain during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League rounds, you should continue reading to gather some more lessons on this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and stats presented here, you will grow your win rate by a lot.
The top finished items to build first in your Galio and Swain synergy build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Shadowflame, and Stormsurge. When Galio included at least these three great items in his build, he performed much better when paired up with Swain than with most other common builds. In fact, Galio had an average win rate of 50.5% when playing alongside Swain with this build.
To have the best chance of coming out on top against your oponents, Galio players should equip the Aftershock, Shield Bash, Bone Plating, Overgrowth, Nimbus Cloak, and Transcendence runes from the Resolve and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations that we analyzed for this team composition, this sequence of runes resulted in the top win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 50.5% winrate overall.
By default, tips, statistics, and builds on how to team up Swain with Galio are presented for all ranked divisions combined. To narrow the statistics and builds to an individual division, you should use the selection menu located earlier in the counter matchup guide.