Swain with Azir
How to Synergize Swain and Azir
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Swain Azir Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Swain and Azir
Tips for Playing as Swain with Azir
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.
Advice to Understand How Azir Will Play
Be a bird!
In the lane, try to position your soldiers between the enemy's minions and the enemy champion. This way you can use them both to last hit and to project threat onto your lane opponent.
Be careful about putting down both of the soldiers stored by Arise! Unless you're going all-in, always have a soldier in your back pocket if you need to escape over a wall or if you misposition your other soldier and need damage now.
Think of Emperor's Divide as a defensive ability first and foremost. Use it when the enemy engages on you or your allies. Remember that your team can walk through the soldiers summoned by Emperor's Divide and use this to your advantage when enemy melee champions engage on you.
Swain Azir Synergy Stats
How to Play with Azir as Swain in LoL
The Swain Azir synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Azir, compared to his overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how his gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Swain sees a very large drop in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Azir. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This decrease shows that Azir helps Swain perform poorer in ranked League of Legends rounds. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is only marginal.
When Swain is an ally to Azir, he gets a noticable drop in his total damage dealt. This change could signal that Azir does not provide cover for him to deal more damage or that his presence also helps extend the match's duration. Similarly, when Swain is played together with Azir on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing with Azir.
Moreover, when Swain plays with Azir 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 Azir does a decent job of covering Swain in team fights.
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Is Swain better when played alongside Azir?
There is no one best ally for Swain that will always be his #1 ally. However, overall, Azir is a very typical companion for Swain. By being on the same side as Swain, he drops their win rate by -0.7% to 50.6%. This clearly indicates that there is not really a strong bond between Swain and Azir that results in them performing worse together than without each other.
Azir has a greater difficulty than Swain. That means Swain players need to be careful when lining up Azir comrades to fight alongside, as they will require a greater level of skill to fight well with you.
Playing together, you should expect to see an overall large increase in your team’s capability to deal magical damage. Together, these two can deal quite a lot of AP type damage.
In contrast, by aligning Swain and Azir together, you probably will not be giving your team a great deal of anti-tank damage dealing potential. Make sure to bring other champs on your team that neutralizes this relative disparity in this pairing's abilities.
Regardless of the ability of your Azir teammate, you should focus on increasing your income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and taking down 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 Swain to work well with Azir during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League rounds, you should keep reading to learn additional tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and stats presented here, you will increase your win rate by a lot.
The best items to use in your Swain and Azir synergy build include Rylai's Crystal Scepter, Malignance, and Liandry's Torment. When Swain used at least these three items in his build, he did a lot better when paired up with Azir than with many other commonly used builds. In fact, Swain had an average winrate of 50.6% when playing alongside Azir with these items in his kit.
To have the greatest likelihood of vanquishing your oponents, Swain players should equip the Conqueror, Presence of Mind, Legend: Tenacity, Last Stand, Conditioning, and Overgrowth runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Of all the rune combinations players chose for Swain and Azir pairings, this combination of runes yielded the top win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 50.6% winrate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to team up Azir with Swain are given for all ranked divisions combined. If you would like to narrow the stats and builds to a particular player tier, you can use the selection menu above.