Soraka with Swain
How to Synergize Soraka and Swain
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Soraka Swain Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Soraka and Swain
Tips for Playing as Soraka with Swain
Equinox can be used as a powerful zoning tool to keep enemies at bay.
You can use Wish on your allies from across the map to save them from otherwise fatal events.
Soraka is a powerful ally in battle, using her strong healing to keep the party moving forward.
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.
Soraka Swain Synergy Stats
How to Play with Swain as Soraka in LoL
The Soraka 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, Soraka sees a very large drop in her KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Swain. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Swain helps Soraka perform poorer in competitive League of Legends rounds. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Soraka tries to synergize with Swain, she gets a small increase in her total damage dealt. This difference could signal that Swain provides cover for her to deal more damage or that his presence on the team also helps increase the game's duration. Similarly, when Soraka is played with Swain on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when she plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing with Swain.
Moreover, when Soraka plays with Swain on the same team, she on average receives a little less damage than when she fights alone. Taking not as much damage may indicate that Swain does a decent job of protecting Soraka during team fights.
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Is Soraka better when played alongside Swain?
There is no perfect synergy for Soraka that will no matter what be her top teammate. Yet, overall, Swain is a good ally for Soraka. By playing on the same side as Soraka, he increases their win rate by 2.8% to 52.2%. This demonstrates that there is a somewhat important strategic relationship between Soraka and Swain that allows them to perform better together than alone.
Swain has a much greater difficulty compared to Soraka. That means Soraka players should be very careful when finding Swain teammates to play with, as they will have to have a much greater level of skill to fight well with you.
Working on the same side, you should expect to witness an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to deal magic damage. Together, these champions are able to dish out a surprising amount of magic type damage.
Conversely, by bringing Soraka and Swain together, you may not be providing your team a lot of attack damage. We recommend you include other champs on your team that neutralizes this relative gap in their potential.
Regardless of the ability of your Swain ally, you need to 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 Soraka to synergize with Swain during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to learn some more tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you use the build and tips presented above, you will increase your win rate significantly.
The most crucial finished items to build first in your Soraka and Swain synergy build include Redemption, Moonstone Renewer, and Dawncore. When Soraka included at least these three great items in her build, she did significantly better when paired up with Swain than with many other common builds. In fact, Soraka boasted an average win rate of 52.2% when playing alongside Swain with these items in her kit.
To have the greatest likelihood of vanquishing your oponents, you should equip the Summon Aery, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Scorch, Bone Plating, and Revitalize runes from the Sorcery and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the runes players used for this champion pairing, this order of runes yielded the top win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 52.2% winrate overall.
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