Kassadin with Swain
How to Synergize Kassadin and Swain
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Kassadin Swain Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Kassadin and Swain
Tips for Playing as Kassadin with Swain
Kassadin's ultimate has many uses and is on a shorter cooldown than most, use it often.
Kassadin has multiple item paths; he can go caster via Mana and Ability Power or anti-caster with Cooldown Reduction and Magic Resist.
Try to get the Ancient Golem buff to counteract Riftwalk's increasing Mana cost.
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.
Kassadin Swain Synergy Stats
How to Play with Swain as Kassadin in LoL
The Kassadin 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, Kassadin sees a large worsening in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Swain. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Swain helps Kassadin perform not as well in competitive League rounds. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Kassadin tries to synergize with Swain, he observes a small decrease in his total damage dealt. This difference may indicate that Swain doesn't help protection for him to dish out more damage or that his allyship also helps increase the game's duration. Similarly, when Kassadin is played alongside Swain on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays without Swain. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing synergisticly with Swain.
Moreover, when Kassadin plays with Swain on the same team, he typically takes a little less damage than when he fights alone. Taking not as much damage could mean that Swain does a decent job of protecting Kassadin during team fights.
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Is Kassadin better when played alongside Swain?
There is no ideal champion pairing for Kassadin that will always be his ideal teammate. However, overall, Swain is a very typical ally for Kassadin. By locking into the same side as Kassadin, he improves their win rate by 0.9% to 50.9%. This shows that there is a weak strategic relationship between Kassadin and Swain that allows them to perform better together than alone.
Swain has a lower difficulty than Kassadin. That means you don't need to be careful when finding Swain comrades to go into battle on the same side as, as they will require a relatively low level of skill to do well with you.
Working on the same side, Kassadin players will likely witness 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.
Conversely, by aligning Kassadin and Swain together, you will not be granting your other teammates very much AD. Plan to have other champs on your team that nullifies this relative gap in this pairing's kit.
Regardless of your Swain ally's skill level, you should 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
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Kassadin to pair well with Swain during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League rounds, you should keep reading to pick up some more lessons on this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and stats displayed here, you should grow your win rate by a lot.
The best items to use in your Kassadin and Swain synergy build include Seraph's Embrace, Rabadon's Deathcap, and Malignance. When Kassadin used at least these three great items in his build, he performed much better when fighting alongside Swain than with many other typical item sets. In fact, Kassadin boasted an average win rate of 50.9% helping carry Swain with this build.
To have the highest chance of coming out on top against your oponents, Kassadin players should equip the First Strike, Magical Footwear, Future's Market, Cosmic Insight, Sudden Impact, and Ultimate Hunter runes from the Inspiration and Domination rune sets. Of all the rune builds players picked for this champion pairing, this sequence of runes resulted in the top win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 50.9% winrate overall.
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