Swain with Gwen
How to Synergize Swain and Gwen
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Swain Gwen Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Swain and Gwen
Tips for Playing as Swain with Gwen
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 Gwen Will Play
Gwen can still damage enemies outside her Hallowed Mists, especially with her Ultimate's range.
Some of Gwen's Abilities can apply her passive to multiple enemies, so aim them at groups to get maximum damage and healing.
Always be Attacking - In addition to dealing bonus damage, Gwen's Attacks empower or reset many of her Abilities.
Swain Gwen Synergy Stats
How to Play with Gwen as Swain in LoL
The Swain Gwen synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Gwen, 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 Gwen. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This fall shows that Gwen helps Swain perform not as well in ranked LoL games. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is only marginal.
When Swain tries to synergize with Gwen, he observes a small decrease in his full damage output. This change may demonstrate that Gwen does not help cover for him to deal more damage or that her presence also helps extend the game's duration. Similarly, when Swain is played alongside Gwen 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 alongside Gwen.
Additionally, when Swain plays with Gwen on the same side, he usually takes a little less damage than when he plays alone. Getting dealt not as much damage could mean that Gwen does a decent job of protecting Swain during teamfights.
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Is Swain better when played alongside Gwen?
There is no ideal synergy for Swain that will no matter what be his top synergy. However, Gwen is a relatively poor teammate for Swain. By playing on the same team as Swain, she drops their win rate by -2.9% to 48.4%. This proves that there is a negative bond between Swain and Gwen that results in them performing worse together than alone.
Gwen has a much lower diffuclty than Swain. That means you don't need to be very careful when enlisting Gwen comrades to go into battle on the same side as, as they will require a much lower level of skill to play well with you.
Fighting on the same side, you should expect to witness an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to deal magical damage. Combined, these champs can deal quite a lot of AP type damage.
In contrast, by aligning Swain and Gwen together, you will not be giving your team a lot of utility. We recommend you include other champs on your team that fills this relative disparity in their abilities.
Regardless of the skill of your Gwen ally, you should focus on increasing your income, warding to avoid ambushes, and taking down objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you should do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to truly master Swain to work well with Gwen during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League rounds, you should keep reading to master some more lessons on this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and suggestions shown above, you should increase your win rate significantly.
The most crucial items to build first in your Swain and Gwen synergy build consist of Rylai's Crystal Scepter, Malignance, and Zhonya's Hourglass. When Swain included at least these three finished items in his build, he performed much better when paired up with Gwen than with most other commonly used item sets. In fact, Swain boasted an average win rate of 48.4% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Gwen with this build.
To have the best probability of coming out on top against your oponents, Swain players should take the Electrocute, Cheap Shot, Eyeball Collection, Ultimate Hunter, Coup de Grace, and Presence of Mind runes from the Domination and Precision rune sets. Of all the rune sets that we analyzed for Swain and Gwen pairings, this composite of runes resulted in the best win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 48.4% win rate overall.
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