Lee Sin with Swain
How to Synergize Lee Sin and Swain
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Lee Sin Swain Synergy Summary
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Tips for Playing as Lee Sin with Swain
Take advantage of Flurry by weaving in basic attacks between spell casts - this maximizes damage output and minimizes Energy loss.
Self-casting Safeguard and using Iron Will are powerful tools for killing neutral monsters (in the jungle).
Use Sonic Wave before Dragon's Rage so you can chase the target with Resonating Strike.
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.
Lee Sin Swain Synergy Stats
How to Play with Swain as Lee Sin in LoL
The Lee Sin 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, Lee Sin 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 fall shows that Swain helps Lee Sin perform not as well in ranked League games. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Lee Sin plays on the same team as Swain, he sees a barely noticable drop in his total damage output. This may demonstrate that Swain does not help protection for him to dish out more damage or that his participation also helps increase the match's duration. Similarly, when Lee Sin is played together with Swain on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays without Swain. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing alongside Swain.
Moreover, when Lee Sin plays with Swain on the same team, he often takes a little less damage than when he fights alone. Receiving not as much damage could mean that Swain does a decent job of protecting Lee Sin in teamfights.
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Is Lee Sin better when played alongside Swain?
There is no universally accepted best champion pairing for Lee Sin that will always be his #1 ally. Yet, Swain is a very typical ally for Lee Sin. By locking into the same side as Lee Sin, he raises their win rate by 0.5% to 47.8%. This shows that there is only a small bond between Lee Sin and Swain that allows them to perform stronger together than alone.
Swain has a greater difficulty than Lee Sin. That means you should be very careful when arranging Swain comrades to fight alongside, as they will require a greater level of skill to play well with you.
Playing alongside, you will likely see an overall large increase in your team’s ability to to do a lot of AP damage. Together, these two can deal quite a lot of AP type damage.
In contrast, by aligning Lee Sin and Swain together, you will not be giving your team a lot of utility. Plan to bring other champs on your team that nullifies this relative gap in their playstyle.
Regardless of the skill of your Swain ally, you need to focus on maximizing your income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and clearing objectives. If you do this, you will do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Lee Sin to synergize with Swain during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League matches, you should keep reading to gather a few extra tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you mind the build and suggestions shown here, you will grow your win rate significantly.
The ideal finished items to focus on in your Lee Sin and Swain synergy build include Spear of Shojin, Sundered Sky, and Eclipse. When Lee Sin bought at least these three pieces in his build, he did a lot better when fighting alongside Swain than with most other common builds. In fact, Lee Sin boasted an average win rate of 47.8% when playing alongside Swain with this build.
To have the highest likelihood of crushing your oponents, Lee Sin players should use the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Coup de Grace, Cosmic Insight, and Magical Footwear runes from the Precision and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the rune builds players used for this team composition, this sequence of runes yielded the top win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 47.8% winrate overall.
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