Swain with Jarvan IV
How to Synergize Swain and Jarvan IV
based on 2,033 Swain with Jarvan IV pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Swain Jarvan IV Synergy Summary
Best Swain vs Jarvan IV Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Swain and Jarvan IV
Tips for Playing as Swain with Jarvan IV
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 Jarvan IV Will Play
Use Demacian Standard as a scouting tool when worried about incoming enemies.
You can use the Dragon Strike / Demacian Standard combo to get out of your own Cataclysm arenas.
Split your basic attacks on different champions at the beginning of fights to maximize damage.
Swain Jarvan IV Synergy Stats
How to Play with Jarvan IV as Swain in LoL
The Swain Jarvan IV synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Jarvan IV, 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 Jarvan IV. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This negative change shows that Jarvan IV helps Swain perform worse in ranked League of Legends games. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is only marginal.
When Swain plays on the same team as Jarvan IV, he observes a small increase in his full damage dealt. This change may signal that Jarvan IV provides cover for him to deal more damage or that his presence on the team also helps increase the match's duration. Similarly, when Swain is played with Jarvan IV on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing with Jarvan IV.
Moreover, when Swain plays with Jarvan IV on the same team, he usually receives a little more damage than when he plays alone. Getting dealt more damage may indicate that Jarvan IV does a poor job of covering Swain in teamfights.
Synergies between Swain and Jarvan IV
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Is Swain better when played alongside Jarvan IV?
There is no universally accepted best companion for Swain that will no matter what be his ideal synergy. However, overall, Jarvan IV is a terrible teammate for Swain. By playing on the same side as Swain, he decreases their win rate by -3.1% to 48.2%. This demonstrates that there is an easy to overcome and exploit synergy between Swain and Jarvan IV that results in them performing worse together than without each other.
Jarvan IV has a much lower diffuclty than Swain. That means you don't need to be careful when arranging Jarvan IV teammates to play with, as they will require a much lower level of skill to do well with you.
Playing together, Swain players will likely observe an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to to cover for your other teammates. Combined, these champs will be able to tank for the rest of their team.
Conversely, by grouping Swain and Jarvan IV together, you probably will not be granting your team much AD. Plan to have other champs on your team that nullifies this gap in this pairing's kit.
Regardless of your Jarvan IV ally's ability, you should focus on maximizing your gold income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and taking down objectives. If you do this, you will do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to truly master Swain in order to work well with Jarvan IV during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League matches, you should continue reading to master some more tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you mind the build and tips displayed above, you will grow your win rate by a lot.
The best items to build first in your Swain and Jarvan IV synergy build consist of Rylai's Crystal Scepter, Zaz'Zak's Realmspike, and Liandry's Torment. When Swain incorporated at least these three finished items in his build, he performed significantly better when paired up with Jarvan IV than with many other typical builds. In fact, Swain had an average winrate of 48.2% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Jarvan IV with this build.
To have the greatest chance of beating your oponents, Swain players should equip the Conqueror, Presence of Mind, Legend: Tenacity, Last Stand, Conditioning, and Overgrowth runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Of all the rune combinations we have analyed for Swain and Jarvan IV pairings, this combo of runes resulted in the best win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 48.2% win rate overall.
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