Neeko with Swain
How to Synergize Neeko and Swain
based on 2,490 Neeko with Swain pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Neeko Swain Synergy Summary
Best Neeko vs Swain Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Neeko and Swain
Tips for Playing as Neeko with Swain
You can set her passive to use hotkeys in the options menu. The default is Shift+F1~F5
Try to use Inherent Glamour sparingly, ineffective uses will put enemies on the alert.
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.
Neeko Swain Synergy Stats
How to Play with Swain as Neeko in LoL
The Neeko 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, Neeko sees a large worsening in her KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Swain. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This decrease shows that Swain helps Neeko perform poorer in ranked League matches. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Neeko is paired with Swain, she observes a marginal improvement in her full damage output. This could indicate that Swain helps provide protection for her to dish out more damage or that his support also helps increase the round's duration. Similarly, when Neeko is played with Swain on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when she plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing with Swain.
Additionally, when Neeko plays with Swain on the same side, she usually takes a little more damage than when she plays alone. Taking more damage may mean that Swain does a poor job of covering Neeko during teamfights.
Synergies between Neeko and Swain
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Is Neeko better when played alongside Swain?
There is no top champion pairing for Neeko that will always be her best ally. Yet, overall, Swain is a very typical teammate for Neeko. By locking into the same team as Neeko, he increases their win rate by 0.9% to 50.3%. This signals that there is only a small synergy between Neeko and Swain that results in them performing stronger together than without each other.
Swain has a greater difficulty than Neeko. That means you need to be careful when finding Swain allies to fight alongside, as they will need a greater level of skill to be able to fight well with you.
Working cooperatively, Neeko players will likely observe an overall large increase in your team’s capability to to do a lot of AP damage. When paired, these champs can blast through enemies with magic damage.
Although, by bringing Neeko and Swain together, you probably will not be providing your other allies much AD. Make sure to include other champions on your team that offsets this relative gap in their playstyle.
Regardless of the skill of your Swain teammate, you need to focus on increasing your income, warding to avoid ambushes, and taking down objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you will do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To learn all of the intricacies of Neeko in order to work well with Swain during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends games, you should keep reading to pick up additional lessons on this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and tips presented here, you should increase your win rate by a lot.
The best finished items to focus on in your Neeko and Swain synergy build include Hextech Rocketbelt, Zhonya's Hourglass, and Zaz'Zak's Realmspike. When Neeko used at least these three pieces in her build, she did significantly better when fighting alongside Swain than with many other commonly used item sets. In fact, Neeko had an average winrate of 50.3% when playing alongside Swain with these items in her kit.
To have the highest probability of beating your oponents, you should take the Electrocute, Taste of Blood, Eyeball Collection, Treasure Hunter, Manaflow Band, and Scorch runes from the Domination and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the rune sets that we analyzed for this team composition, this mix of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 50.3% winrate overall.
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