Swain with Illaoi
How to Synergize Swain and Illaoi
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Swain Illaoi Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Swain and Illaoi
Tips for Playing as Swain with Illaoi
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 Illaoi Will Play
Vessel
Tentacles are an immense source of power. Don't fight without them.
Spirits inherit their target's current health. If making a
is your goal, try whittling your opponent's health down a bit first to make killing the spirit easier.
Leap of Faith is best used to follow-up a strong engage or when being engaged upon. Be careful about being the first one into a fight.
Swain Illaoi Synergy Stats
How to Play with Illaoi as Swain in LoL
The Swain Illaoi synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Illaoi, 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 Illaoi. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Illaoi helps Swain perform poorer in competitive LoL rounds. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Swain plays on the same team as Illaoi, he sees a barely noticable drop in his complete damage output. This change may signal that Illaoi doesn't help cover for him to deal more damage or that her support also helps increase the round's duration. Similarly, when Swain is played together with Illaoi on the same team, 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 Illaoi.
Additionally, when Swain plays with Illaoi on the same team, he on average receives a little less damage than when he fights alone. Receiving not as much damage may indicate that Illaoi does a decent job of protecting Swain during team fights.
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Is Swain better when played alongside Illaoi?
There is no universally accepted best companion for Swain that will 100% of the time be his ideal teammate. Yet, Illaoi is a very typical teammate for Swain. By playing on the same team as Swain, she increases their win rate by 0.2% to 51.5%. This demonstrates that there is only a small synergy between Swain and Illaoi that allows them to perform stronger together than alone.
Illaoi has a much lower diffuclty than Swain. That means you don't need to be cautious when arranging Illaoi allies to play with, as they will require a much lower level of skill to work well with you.
When playing alongside, you should expect to observe an overall large increase in your team’s ability to deal magic damage. When paired, these champs can blast through enemies with magic damage.
Although, by aligning Swain and Illaoi together, you probably will not be giving your other allies enough support. Make sure to include other champs on your team that neutralizes this relative gap in their abilities.
Regardless of your Illaoi ally's ability, you need to focus on maximizing your gold income, outlasting your enemies, and taking down objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you should do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To truly master Swain in order to work well with Illaoi during both the lane and mid / late game phases of LoL matches, you should continue reading to gather a few extra tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you use the build and tips presented here, you will grow your win rate significantly.
The ideal finished items to get in your Swain and Illaoi synergy build include Malignance, Zhonya's Hourglass, and Liandry's Torment. When Swain used at least these three great items in his build, he did significantly better as an ally of Illaoi than with most other typical item sets. In fact, Swain boasted an average win rate of 51.5% helping carry Illaoi with this build.
To have the best chance of annihilating your oponents, Swain players should equip the Electrocute, Cheap Shot, Eyeball Collection, Ultimate Hunter, Coup de Grace, and Presence of Mind runes from the Domination and Precision rune sets. Out of all the runes players picked for Swain and Illaoi pairings, this mix of runes resulted in the best win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 51.5% win rate overall.
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