Swain with Briar
How to Synergize Swain and Briar
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Swain Briar Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Swain and Briar
Tips for Playing as Swain with Briar
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.
Swain Briar Synergy Stats
How to Play with Briar as Swain in LoL
The Swain Briar synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Briar, 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 Briar. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This fall shows that Briar helps Swain perform worse in competitive LoL rounds. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is only marginal.
When Swain tries to synergize with Briar, he sees a barely noticable drop in his complete damage output. This may demonstrate that Briar does not support by providing cover for him to deal more damage or that their allyship also helps extend the match's duration. Similarly, when Swain is played with Briar on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing with Briar.
Additionally, when Swain plays with Briar on the same team, he often takes a little less damage than when he fights alone. Getting dealt not as much damage may mean that Briar does a decent job of protecting Swain during teamfights.
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Is Swain better when played alongside Briar?
There is no one best synergy for Swain that will no matter what be his ideal synergy. However, Briar is a pretty good teammate for Swain. By being on the same team as Swain, they improves their win rate by 1.9% to 53.2%. This demonstrates that there is a potentially meaningful bond between Swain and Briar that results in them performing stronger together than alone.
Briar has a much lower diffuclty than Swain. That means Swain players don't need to be very careful when arranging Briar teammates to fight alongside, as they will have to have a much lower level of skill to be able to work well with you.
When playing cooperatively, you should expect to witness an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to deal magical damage. When paired, these champs are able to dish out a surprising amount of magic type damage.
Conversely, by grouping Swain and Briar together, you probably will not be granting your side much utility. Plan to bring other champions on your team that fills this disparity in their kit.
Regardless of your Briar ally's ability, you need to focus on maximizing your gold income, warding to avoid ambushes, and taking down objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, 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 in order to pair well with Briar 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 mind the build and suggestions shown above, you will grow your win rate by a lot.
The most crucial finished items to have in your Swain and Briar synergy build consist of Rylai's Crystal Scepter, Zaz'Zak's Realmspike, and Riftmaker. When Swain used at least these three items in his build, he did a lot better when fighting alongside Briar than with many other commonly used builds. In fact, Swain boasted an average winrate of 53.2% when playing alongside Briar with this build.
To have the highest chance of defeating your oponents, Swain players should use the Summon Aery, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Scorch, Conditioning, and Overgrowth runes from the Sorcery and Resolve rune sets. Of all the rune builds players used for this team composition, this order of runes resulted in the best win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 53.2% winrate overall.
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