Swain with Karma
How to Synergize Swain and Karma
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Swain Karma Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Swain and Karma
Tips for Playing as Swain with Karma
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 Karma Will Play
Don't be too conservative with Mantra. Gathering Fire is strongest in teamfights, making it easy to recharge Mantra multiple times.
Gathering Fire rewards aggressive play. Look to land abilities and basic attacks on your opponent to lower Mantra's cooldown and stay on the offensive.
When using Focused Resolve, slow your opponents with Inner Flame or speed yourself up with Inspire if you're having trouble sticking to a target.
Swain Karma Synergy Stats
How to Play with Karma as Swain in LoL
The Swain Karma synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Karma, 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 very large drop in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Karma. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Karma helps Swain perform worse in ranked League of Legends games. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Swain tries to synergize with Karma, he sees a little increase in his full damage output. This change may demonstrate that Karma provides protection for him to deal more damage or that her participation also helps increase the game's duration. Similarly, when Swain is played alongside Karma on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays without Karma. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing with Karma.
Additionally, when Swain plays with Karma on the same team, he on average takes a little more damage than when he plays alone. Receiving more damage could indicate that Karma does a poor job of protecting Swain during team fights.
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Is Swain better when played alongside Karma?
There is no one best companion for Swain that will no matter what be his ideal teammate. Yet, Karma is a very typical teammate for Swain. By locking into the same side as Swain, she improves their win rate by 0.3% to 51.6%. This signals that there is only a small strategic relationship between Swain and Karma that results in them performing stronger together than without each other.
Karma has a much lower diffuclty than Swain. That means you don't need to be very careful when lining up Karma teammates to play with, as they will need a much lower level of skill to be able to play well with you.
Fighting together, Swain players should observe an overall large increase in your team’s capability to deal magic damage. Combined, these two are able to dish out a surprising amount of magic type damage.
In contrast, by bringing Swain and Karma together, you probably will not be giving your side a lot of AD. Make sure to pick other champs on your team that nullifies this gap in this pairing's capabilities.
Regardless of your Karma ally's skill level, you need to focus on increasing your income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, 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
To learn all of the intricacies of Swain to work well with Karma during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends matches, you should keep reading to master additional lessons on this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and suggestions displayed above, you should grow your win rate significantly.
The ideal finished items to prioritize in your Swain and Karma synergy build include Rylai's Crystal Scepter, Riftmaker, and Liandry's Torment. When Swain used at least these three finished items in his build, he performed a lot better when fighting alongside Karma than with most other typical builds. In fact, Swain had an average win rate of 51.6% helping carry Karma with this build.
To have the greatest probability of defeating your oponents, Swain players should use the Conqueror, Presence of Mind, Legend: Tenacity, Last Stand, Conditioning, and Overgrowth runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Of all the runes that we analyzed for this team composition, this mixture of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 51.6% win rate overall.
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