Skarner with Swain
How to Synergize Skarner and Swain
based on 475 Skarner with Swain pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Skarner Swain Synergy Summary
Best Skarner vs Swain Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Skarner and Swain
Tips for Playing as Skarner with Swain
Impale is extremely powerful when you use it to position an enemy so your allies can attack them.
Basic attacks reduce the cooldown of Crystal Slash. Use them as often as possible for maximum damage.
Capturing Crystal Spires before attempting neutral objectives or team fights around them improves Skarner's performance in said fights dramatically.
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.
Skarner Swain Synergy Stats
How to Play with Swain as Skarner in LoL
The Skarner 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, Skarner sees a very large drop 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 Skarner perform not as well in competitive League rounds. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Skarner is paired with Swain, he observes a small decrease in his complete damage output. This difference may demonstrate that Swain does not support by providing protection for him to dish out more damage or that his participation also helps increase the match's duration. Similarly, when Skarner is played with 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.
Additionally, when Skarner plays with Swain on the same side, he usually receives a little less damage than when he fights alone. Getting dealt not as much damage may indicate that Swain does a decent job of protecting Skarner in team fights.
Synergies between Skarner and Swain
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Is Skarner better when played alongside Swain?
There is no universally accepted best companion for Skarner that will no matter what be his ideal ally. However, Swain is a good companion for Skarner. By being on the same team as Skarner, he increases their win rate by 2.6% to 50.9%. This proves that there is pretty good synergy between Skarner and Swain that results in them performing better together than alone.
Swain has a greater difficulty than Skarner. That means you need to be very careful when enlisting Swain teammates to play with, as they will have to have a greater level of skill to be able to fight well with you.
When playing together, Skarner players should expect to witness an overall large increase in your team’s ability to deal magical damage. Combined, these champs can blast through enemies with magic damage.
In contrast, by pairing Skarner and Swain together, you will not be giving your other allies much attack damage. Make sure to pick other champions on your team that fills this relative disparity in this pairing's abilities.
Regardless of your Swain ally's skill level, you should focus on increasing your income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and clearing objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you will do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to truly master Skarner to pair well with Swain during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League games, you should keep reading to master some more tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you mind the build and suggestions displayed above, you will grow your win rate significantly.
The most important finished items to include in your Skarner and Swain synergy build include Trinity Force, Dead Man's Plate, and Jak'Sho, The Protean. When Skarner incorporated at least these three items in his build, he did significantly better as an ally of Swain than with many other commonly used item sets. In fact, Skarner boasted an average win rate of 50.9% helping carry Swain with this build.
To have the highest probability of vanquishing your oponents, you should take the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Last Stand, Transcendence, and Waterwalking runes from the Precision and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the rune sets that we analyzed for Skarner and Swain pairings, this combination of runes yielded the top win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 50.9% win rate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to pair Swain with Skarner are given for all skill levels, merged. If you would like to scope the statistics and builds to a specific player tier, you may use the selection menu earlier in the counter matchup guide.