Swain with Brand
How to Synergize Swain and Brand
based on 5,362 Swain with Brand pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Swain Brand Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Swain and Brand
Tips for Playing as Swain with Brand
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 Brand Will Play
You can use Brand's abilities in a variety of combinations to maximize his damage in different situations.
You can deter enemies from standing near their minions by setting them ablaze, due to Conflagration.
Pyroclasm bounces randomly between enemies, so try to cast it on a small group of enemies if you want to hit the same target multiple times.
Swain Brand Synergy Stats
How to Play with Brand as Swain in LoL
The Swain Brand synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Brand, 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 Brand. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Brand helps Swain perform worse in ranked League games. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is only marginal.
When Swain tries to synergize with Brand, he gets a barely noticable drop in his full damage output. This change may demonstrate that Brand does not support by providing cover for him to dish out more damage or that his allyship also helps extend the round's duration. Similarly, when Swain is played together with Brand on the same side, 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 Brand.
Additionally, when Swain plays with Brand on the same team, he often receives a little more damage than when he plays alone. Taking more damage may indicate that Brand does a poor job of covering Swain in team fights.
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Is Swain better when played alongside Brand?
There is no ideal ally for Swain that will no matter what be his #1 synergy. However, overall, Brand is a decent teammate for Swain. By locking into the same team as Swain, he improves their win rate by 1.2% to 52.5%. This demonstrates that there is a potentially meaningful synergy between Swain and Brand that allows them to perform stronger together than alone.
Brand has a much lower diffuclty than Swain. That means Swain players don't need to be very careful when finding Brand teammates to play with, as they will require a much lower level of skill to be able to work well with you.
When playing together, Swain players should expect to witness 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.
Conversely, by grouping Swain and Brand together, you will not be providing your other teammates a lot of sustained damage output. We recommend you bring other champions on your team that helps cover this relative hole in this pairing's playstyle.
Regardless of your Brand ally's ability, you need to focus on maximizing your gold income, outlasting your enemies, 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
To truly master Swain in order to synergize with Brand during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends rounds, you should keep reading to gather some more tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you mind the build and suggestions displayed here, you will increase your win rate by a lot.
The top items to use in your Swain and Brand synergy build include Malignance, Cryptbloom, and Liandry's Torment. When Swain used at least these three great items in his build, he did significantly better as an ally of Brand than with most other commonly used item sets. In fact, Swain boasted an average winrate of 52.5% helping carry Brand with this build.
To have the highest chance of crushing your oponents, Swain players should take the Summon Aery, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Scorch, Conditioning, and Overgrowth runes from the Sorcery and Resolve rune sets. Of all the rune sets that we analyzed for this team composition, this blending of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 52.5% winrate overall.
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