Swain with Kassadin
How to Synergize Swain and Kassadin
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Swain Kassadin Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Swain and Kassadin
Tips for Playing as Swain with Kassadin
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 Kassadin Will Play
Kassadin's ultimate has many uses and is on a shorter cooldown than most, use it often.
Kassadin has multiple item paths; he can go caster via Mana and Ability Power or anti-caster with Cooldown Reduction and Magic Resist.
Try to get the Ancient Golem buff to counteract Riftwalk's increasing Mana cost.
Swain Kassadin Synergy Stats
How to Play with Kassadin as Swain in LoL
The Swain Kassadin synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Kassadin, 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 Kassadin. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Kassadin helps Swain perform not as well in competitive LoL games. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Swain plays on the same team as Kassadin, he observes a moderate decrease in his complete damage dealt. This may indicate that Kassadin does not provide protection for him to deal more damage or that his participation also helps increase the match's duration. Similarly, when Swain is played together with Kassadin on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays without Kassadin. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing alongside Kassadin.
Additionally, when Swain plays with Kassadin on the same team, he often receives a little less damage than when he fights alone. Getting dealt not as much damage could mean that Kassadin does a decent job of covering Swain in team fights.
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Is Swain better when played alongside Kassadin?
There is no perfect synergy for Swain that will 100% of the time be his #1 synergy. Yet, Kassadin is a very typical ally for Swain. By locking into the same side as Swain, he drops their win rate by -0.4% to 50.9%. This demonstrates that there is a weak bond between Swain and Kassadin that results in them performing worse together than alone.
Kassadin has a lower difficulty than Swain. That means Swain players don't need to be cautious when finding Kassadin allies to play with, as they will have to have a lower level of skill to be able to cooperate well with you.
When playing on the same side, you should witness an overall large increase in your team’s capability to to do a lot of AP damage. Combined, these champions can deal quite a lot of AP type damage.
Conversely, by pairing Swain and Kassadin together, you probably will not be providing your other teammates enough AD. Make sure to include other champions on your team that helps cover this gap in their abilities.
Regardless of the ability of your Kassadin teammate, you need to focus on maximizing your 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
If you would like to truly master Swain to synergize with Kassadin during both the lane and mid / late game phases of LoL rounds, you should keep reading to master additional tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and stats shown above, you should grow your win rate significantly.
The top items to focus on in your Swain and Kassadin synergy build consist of Rylai's Crystal Scepter, Zaz'Zak's Realmspike, and Liandry's Torment. When Swain included at least these three great items in his build, he performed a lot better as an ally of Kassadin than with most other commonly used builds. In fact, Swain had an average winrate of 50.9% helping carry Kassadin with these items in his kit.
To have the highest chance of coming out on top against 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 rune combinations players picked for this team composition, this order of runes resulted in the best win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 50.9% winrate overall.
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