Illaoi with Swain
How to Synergize Illaoi and Swain
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Illaoi Swain Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Illaoi and Swain
Tips for Playing as Illaoi with Swain
Vessel
Tentacles are an immense source of power. Don't fight without them.
Spirits inherit their target's current health. If making a
is your goal, try whittling your opponent's health down a bit first to make killing the spirit easier.
Leap of Faith is best used to follow-up a strong engage or when being engaged upon. Be careful about being the first one into a fight.
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.
Illaoi Swain Synergy Stats
How to Play with Swain as Illaoi in LoL
The Illaoi 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, Illaoi sees a large worsening in her KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Swain. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Swain helps Illaoi perform not as well in competitive LoL games. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Illaoi tries to synergize with Swain, she sees a small decrease in her total damage output. This difference may indicate that Swain does not provide cover for her to dish out more damage or that his allyship also helps extend the game's duration. Similarly, when Illaoi is played alongside Swain on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when she plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing with Swain.
Moreover, when Illaoi plays with Swain on the same side, she typically receives a little less damage than when she plays alone. Getting dealt not as much damage could mean that Swain does a decent job of protecting Illaoi in teamfights.
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Is Illaoi better when played alongside Swain?
There is no perfect ally for Illaoi that will 100% of the time be her best teammate. Yet, Swain is a good companion for Illaoi. By playing on the same side as Illaoi, he increases their win rate by 1.9% to 51.5%. This demonstrates that there is a somewhat important synergy between Illaoi and Swain that allows them to perform stronger together than without each other.
Swain has a much greater difficulty compared to Illaoi. That means you need to be careful when lining up Swain comrades to play with, as they will need a much greater level of skill to be able to work well with you.
Fighting alongside, Illaoi players should witness an overall large increase in your team’s capability to to do a lot of AP damage. When paired, these champs are able to dish out a surprising amount of magic type damage.
Although, by pairing Illaoi and Swain together, you may not be giving your side enough utility. Plan to have other champs on your team that nullifies this relative gap in their abilities.
Regardless of the ability of your Swain ally, you need to focus on increasing your gold income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and taking down objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you should do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To truly master Illaoi to work well with Swain during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends rounds, you should keep reading to learn some more tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you use the build and stats presented here, you should grow your win rate by a lot.
The top finished items to get in your Illaoi and Swain synergy build include Sterak's Gage, Sundered Sky, and Iceborn Gauntlet. When Illaoi used at least these three items in her build, she did much better as an ally of Swain than with most other common builds. In fact, Illaoi boasted an average win rate of 51.5% when synergizing her build and playstyle to Swain with this build.
To have the highest chance of crushing your oponents, you should use the Grasp of the Undying, Demolish, Bone Plating, Overgrowth, Last Stand, and Presence of Mind runes from the Resolve and Precision rune sets. Of all the rune builds we have analyed for this team composition, this mix of runes yielded the top win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 51.5% winrate overall.
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