Gragas with Swain
How to Synergize Gragas and Swain
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Gragas Swain Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Gragas and Swain
Tips for Playing as Gragas with Swain
Try to knock enemies back into your towers with Explosive Cask.
Try to combo Body Slam with Explosive Cask to set up kills for your team.
The damage reduction from Drunken Rage is applied when you start drinking, try to use it when you see damage coming your way.
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.
Gragas Swain Synergy Stats
How to Play with Swain as Gragas in LoL
The Gragas 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, Gragas sees a large worsening in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Swain. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This decrease shows that Swain helps Gragas perform worse in competitive League of Legends games. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Gragas plays on the same team as Swain, he gets a little decrease in his complete damage dealt. This change may signal that Swain does not help cover for him to deal more damage or that his support also helps increase the match's duration. Similarly, when Gragas is played with 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 synergisticly with Swain.
Additionally, when Gragas plays with Swain on the same side, he typically takes a little more damage than when he fights alone. Getting dealt more damage could mean that Swain does a poor job of protecting Gragas in teamfights.
Synergies between Gragas and Swain
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Is Gragas better when played alongside Swain?
There is no top ally for Gragas that will always be his #1 teammate. Yet, Swain is a very typical teammate for Gragas. By locking into the same side as Gragas, he has no effect on their win rate by 0.0% to 47.9%. This shows that there is only a small synergy between Gragas and Swain that allows them to perform at the same level together than alone.
Swain has a greater difficulty than Gragas. That means you should be very careful when arranging Swain comrades to play with, as they will need a greater level of skill to be able to work well with you.
Working alongside, Gragas players should expect to observe an overall large increase in your team’s capability to deal magical damage. When paired, these two are able to dish out a surprising amount of magic type damage.
Although, by pairing Gragas and Swain together, you may not be granting your other teammates a great deal of anti-tank damage dealing potential. Make sure to pick other champs on your team that neutralizes this disparity in their abilities.
Regardless of your Swain ally's skill level, you need to focus on maximizing your gold income, outlasting your enemies, and clearing objectives. If you do this, you will do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To learn all of the intricacies of Gragas in order to pair well with Swain during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends games, you should continue reading to pick up some more lessons on this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and suggestions presented here, you will increase your win rate significantly.
The top items to build first in your Gragas and Swain synergy build consist of Rabadon's Deathcap, Shadowflame, and Stormsurge. When Gragas combined at least these three finished items in his build, he performed much better when paired up with Swain than with many other commonly used builds. In fact, Gragas had an average winrate of 47.9% helping carry Swain with these items in his kit.
To have the best probability of crushing your oponents, you should take the Phase Rush, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Scorch, Biscuit Delivery, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Sorcery and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the rune sets we have analyed for Gragas and Swain pairings, this combo of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 47.9% winrate overall.
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