Lucian with Swain
How to Synergize Lucian and Swain
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Lucian Swain Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Lucian and Swain
Tips for Playing as Lucian with Swain
For optimal burst, try to combine Relentless Pursuit into Piercing Light.
Ardent Blaze actually explodes in a star pattern. Try to line it up so the spokes hit enemy champions.
Because of Lightslinger, Lucian benefits more from Attack Damage than he does from Attack Speed.
Once you have chosen an angle for The Culling, you cannot change it. Pick your moment well!
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.
Lucian Swain Synergy Stats
How to Play with Swain as Lucian in LoL
The Lucian 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, Lucian sees a large worsening in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Swain. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Swain helps Lucian perform not as well in competitive League matches. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Lucian is paired with Swain, he gets a small decrease in his full damage output. This change could demonstrate that Swain doesn't help cover for him to dish out more damage or that his allyship also helps extend the match's duration. Similarly, when Lucian is played alongside 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 synergisticly with Swain.
Additionally, when Lucian plays with Swain on the same team, he on average takes a little less damage than when he plays alone. Getting dealt not as much damage could indicate that Swain does a decent job of covering Lucian in teamfights.
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Is Lucian better when played alongside Swain?
There is no ideal champion pairing for Lucian that will always be his #1 ally. However, Swain is a decent teammate for Lucian. By locking into the same side as Lucian, he improves their win rate by 1.9% to 50.7%. This clearly indicates that there is a potentially meaningful strategic relationship between Lucian and Swain that allows them to perform at the top of their game together than alone.
Swain has a greater difficulty than Lucian. That means Lucian players need to be cautious when enlisting Swain teammates to play with, as they will have to have a greater level of skill to do well with you.
Playing together, Lucian players should expect to observe an overall large increase in your team’s capability to to do a lot of AP damage. Together, these champions are able to dish out a surprising amount of magic type damage.
In contrast, by grouping Lucian and Swain together, you may not be granting your other allies a great deal of utility. We recommend you have other champions on your team that offsets this relative disparity in their playstyle.
Regardless of the skill of your Swain ally, you need to focus on increasing your income, warding to avoid ambushes, and clearing 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 learn all of the intricacies of Lucian in order to work well with Swain during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to gather some more tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and suggestions shown above, you will grow your win rate significantly.
The most important items to prioritize in your Lucian and Swain synergy build consist of Lord Dominik's Regards, Navori Quickblades, and Voltaic Cyclosword. When Lucian combined at least these three finished items in his build, he performed significantly better when fighting alongside Swain than with many other typical item sets. In fact, Lucian boasted an average win rate of 50.7% when playing alongside Swain with these items in his kit.
To have the best chance of vanquishing your oponents, you should equip the Press the Attack, Presence of Mind, Legend: Bloodline, Coup de Grace, Magical Footwear, and Biscuit Delivery runes from the Precision and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the rune sets players chose for this team composition, this set of runes yielded the top win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 50.7% win rate overall.
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