Swain with Kayle
How to Synergize Swain and Kayle
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Swain Kayle Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Swain and Kayle
Tips for Playing as Swain with Kayle
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 Kayle Will Play
Kayle benefits greatly from Attack Damage and Ability Power, making hybrid items like Nashor's Tooth and Hextech Gunblade very effective on her.
Using Divine Judgment on a high-DPS ally can turn the tides of battle by giving your ally free reign to attack.
Kayle's attacks become incredibly powerful once she gains attack range from Divine Ascent. Play safe until then.
Swain Kayle Synergy Stats
How to Play with Kayle as Swain in LoL
The Swain Kayle synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Kayle, 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 Kayle. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This fall shows that Kayle helps Swain perform worse in competitive League matches. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is only marginal.
When Swain tries to synergize with Kayle, he gets a little decrease in his complete damage output. This difference could indicate that Kayle does not provide protection for him to deal more damage or that her allyship also helps increase the game's duration. Similarly, when Swain is played alongside Kayle on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays without Kayle. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing alongside Kayle.
Moreover, when Swain plays with Kayle on the same team, he on average receives a little less damage than when he plays alone. Taking not as much damage could mean that Kayle does a decent job of protecting Swain in teamfights.
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Is Swain better when played alongside Kayle?
There is no ideal companion for Swain that will always be his best teammate. However, overall, Kayle is a pretty good ally for Swain. By playing on the same team as Swain, she raises their win rate by 1.5% to 52.8%. This demonstrates that there is a somewhat important bond between Swain and Kayle that results in them performing better together than without each other.
Kayle has a lower difficulty than Swain. That means you don't need to be very careful when finding Kayle allies to play with, as they will have to have a relatively low level of skill to be able to fight well with you.
Fighting cooperatively, Swain players will likely observe an overall large increase in your team’s ability to to do a lot of AP damage. Combined, these champions can blast through enemies with magic damage.
In contrast, by pairing Swain and Kayle together, you probably will not be providing your other allies much crowd control. Plan to include other champions on your team that fills this hole in their capabilities.
Regardless of the ability of your Kayle ally, you need to focus on maximizing your gold income, outlasting your enemies, and clearing objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you will do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To learn all of the intricacies of Swain to pair well with Kayle during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League matches, you should keep reading to learn some more lessons on this champion pairing. If you use the build and stats presented here, you should increase your win rate by a lot.
The most crucial items to have in your Swain and Kayle synergy build include Rylai's Crystal Scepter, Malignance, and Riftmaker. When Swain used at least these three great items in his build, he performed much better when fighting alongside Kayle than with most other typical item sets. In fact, Swain had an average winrate of 52.8% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Kayle with these items in his kit.
To have the greatest chance of coming out on top against your oponents, Swain players should take the Electrocute, Cheap Shot, Eyeball Collection, Ultimate Hunter, Cosmic Insight, and Triple Tonic runes from the Domination and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the runes players used for this team composition, this set of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 52.8% win rate overall.
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