Swain with Hecarim
How to Synergize Swain and Hecarim
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Swain Hecarim Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Swain and Hecarim
Tips for Playing as Swain with Hecarim
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 Hecarim Will Play
Devastating Charge deals more damage based on the distance traveled. Try using Onslaught of Shadows or Summoner Spells such as Ghost or Flash to maximize this damage.
Spirit of Dread restores Health when nearby enemies take damage, including damage dealt by allies. Cast this during a large fight to maximize Hecarim's survivability.
Swain Hecarim Synergy Stats
How to Play with Hecarim as Swain in LoL
The Swain Hecarim synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Hecarim, 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 Hecarim. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This decrease shows that Hecarim helps Swain perform worse in competitive League games. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Swain plays on the same team as Hecarim, he sees a little drop in his complete damage output. This difference could signal that Hecarim does not support by providing protection for him to deal more damage or that his presence also helps increase the match's duration. Similarly, when Swain is played with Hecarim on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing alongside Hecarim.
Moreover, when Swain plays with Hecarim on the same side, he often receives a little less damage than when he plays alone. Receiving not as much damage could mean that Hecarim does a decent job of covering Swain in teamfights.
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Is Swain better when played alongside Hecarim?
There is no perfect synergy for Swain that will 100% of the time be his #1 synergy. However, Hecarim is a relatively poor companion for Swain. By playing on the same team as Swain, he lowers their win rate by -2.5% to 48.8%. This shows that there is a bad synergy between Swain and Hecarim that results in them performing worse together than without each other.
Hecarim has a lower difficulty than Swain. That means Swain players don't need to be very careful when enlisting Hecarim teammates to play with, as they will need a relatively low level of skill to do well with you.
Fighting alongside, you should see an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to deal magical damage. Together, these champions can blast through enemies with magic damage.
Although, by aligning Swain and Hecarim together, you may not be providing your side much crowd control. Make sure to bring other champions on your team that helps cover this hole in their abilities.
Regardless of the skill of your Hecarim teammate, you need to focus on increasing your gold income, warding to avoid ambushes, and taking down objectives. If you do this, you should do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To learn all of the intricacies of Swain in order to work well with Hecarim during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends games, you should continue reading to master additional tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you use the build and tips shown here, you will increase your win rate by a lot.
The most crucial items to prioritize in your Swain and Hecarim synergy build consist of Rylai's Crystal Scepter, Riftmaker, and Liandry's Torment. When Swain included at least these three great items in his build, he did much better when paired up with Hecarim than with most other typical item sets. In fact, Swain boasted an average win rate of 48.8% when playing alongside Hecarim with this build.
To have the highest likelihood of vanquishing your oponents, you should take the Conqueror, Presence of Mind, Legend: Tenacity, Last Stand, Conditioning, and Overgrowth runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations players picked for this team composition, this composite of runes resulted in the best win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 48.8% win rate overall.
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