Swain with Bard
How to Synergize Swain and Bard
based on 2,047 Swain with Bard pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Swain Bard Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Swain and Bard
Tips for Playing as Swain with Bard
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 Bard Will Play
Don't forget that enemies can also use your Magical Journey doorways, and that your ultimate can also hit your allies!
Let your Caretaker's Shrines charge up - they heal for a lot more when at full power.
It's important to collect chimes to improve your meep's attacks, but don't neglect your lane partner! Try to make a big entrance by bringing an ally into the lane with you with Magical Journey.
Swain Bard Synergy Stats
How to Play with Bard as Swain in LoL
The Swain Bard synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Bard, 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 large worsening in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Bard. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This fall shows that Bard helps Swain perform poorer in competitive LoL matches. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Swain plays on the same team as Bard, he gets a sizeable uptick in his full damage output. This change could indicate that Bard provides protection for him to dish out more damage or that his support also helps extend the round's duration. Similarly, when Swain is played with Bard on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing with Bard.
Additionally, when Swain plays with Bard on the same team, he on average takes a little more damage than when he plays alone. Taking more damage could mean that Bard does a poor job of covering Swain during team fights.
Synergies between Swain and Bard
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Is Swain better when played alongside Bard?
There is no ideal synergy for Swain that will 100% of the time be his ideal teammate. However, overall, Bard is a fantastic companion for Swain. By playing on the same team as Swain, he increases their win rate by 3.4% to 54.7%. This demonstrates that there is a very strong bond between Swain and Bard that results in them performing better together than alone.
Bard has a greater difficulty than Swain. That means you need to be careful when lining up Bard teammates to go into battle on the same side as, as they will need a greater level of skill to be able to cooperate well with you.
Fighting on the same side, Swain players will likely observe an overall large increase in your team’s capability to deal magic damage. Combined, these champs can deal quite a lot of AP type damage.
In contrast, by pairing Swain and Bard together, you probably will not be giving your other allies very much AD. We recommend you pick other champs on your team that helps cover this relative disparity in their potential.
Regardless of your Bard ally's skill level, you need to focus on maximizing your gold income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and clearing objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you should do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To learn all of the intricacies of Swain in order to pair well with Bard during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends games, you should keep reading to master a few extra tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and stats displayed here, you will increase your win rate significantly.
The ideal items to focus on in your Swain and Bard synergy build consist of Malignance, Zhonya's Hourglass, and Liandry's Torment. When Swain included at least these three finished items in his build, he did a lot better as an ally of Bard than with many other typical builds. In fact, Swain had an average win rate of 54.7% when playing alongside Bard with this build.
To have the best chance of crushing your oponents, you should take the Summon Aery, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Scorch, Conditioning, and Overgrowth runes from the Sorcery and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the runes we have analyed for this team composition, this composite of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 54.7% winrate overall.
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