Swain with Garen
How to Synergize Swain and Garen
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Swain Garen Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Swain and Garen
Tips for Playing as Swain with Garen
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 Garen Will Play
Garen is only constrained by cooldowns, making items such as Black Cleaver very effective for him.
Garen's regeneration greatly increases if he can avoid receiving damage for several seconds.
Judgment deals maximum damage when only hitting a single target. For effective trading, try to position such that only the enemy champion is hit.
Swain Garen Synergy Stats
How to Play with Garen as Swain in LoL
The Swain Garen synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Garen, 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 Garen. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Garen helps Swain perform worse in competitive LoL matches. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Swain is paired with Garen, he gets a little drop in his full damage output. This could indicate that Garen doesn't help cover for him to deal more damage or that his participation also helps extend the game's duration. Similarly, when Swain is played alongside Garen 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 synergisticly with Garen.
Additionally, when Swain plays with Garen on the same team, he typically takes a little less damage than when he plays alone. Receiving not as much damage could mean that Garen does a decent job of protecting Swain during team fights.
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Is Swain better when played alongside Garen?
There is no ideal ally for Swain that will always be his best ally. However, Garen is a very typical ally for Swain. By playing on the same side as Swain, he decreases their win rate by -0.3% to 51.0%. This clearly indicates that there is only a small strategic relationship between Swain and Garen that allows them to perform worse together than alone.
Garen has a much lower diffuclty than Swain. That means Swain players don't need to be very careful when enlisting Garen comrades to play with, as they will need a much lower level of skill to be able to play well with you.
Fighting alongside, you should witness an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to soak up damage. When paired, these two might be able to provide enough cover for their team's carries.
In contrast, by pairing Swain and Garen together, you will not be providing your team a lot of support. We recommend you have other champions on your team that helps cover this hole in this pairing's potential.
Regardless of the ability of your Garen teammate, you need to focus on increasing your gold income, warding to avoid ambushes, 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
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Swain to synergize with Garen during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League matches, you should continue reading to master additional tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you mind the build and suggestions shown here, you will grow your win rate by a lot.
The ideal finished items to focus on in your Swain and Garen synergy build include Zhonya's Hourglass, Riftmaker, and Liandry's Torment. When Swain included at least these three items in his build, he did a lot better when paired up with Garen than with many other typical builds. In fact, Swain had an average win rate of 51.0% helping carry Garen with this build.
To have the greatest likelihood of vanquishing your oponents, Swain players should take the Conqueror, Presence of Mind, Legend: Tenacity, Last Stand, Conditioning, and Overgrowth runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Of all the runes we have analyed for this champion pairing, this blending of runes resulted in the top win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 51.0% winrate overall.
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