Swain with K'Sante
How to Synergize Swain and K'Sante
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Swain K'Sante Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Swain and K'Sante
Tips for Playing as Swain with K'Sante
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 K'Sante Will Play
Take advantage of Flurry by weaving in basic attacks between spell casts - this maximizes damage output and minimizes Energy loss.
Use Sonic Wave before Dragon's Rage so you can chase the target with Resonating Strike.
Self-casting Safeguard and using Iron Will are powerful tools for killing neutral monsters (in the jungle).
Swain K'Sante Synergy Stats
How to Play with K'Sante as Swain in LoL
The Swain K'Sante synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with K'Sante, 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 K'Sante. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This fall shows that K'Sante helps Swain perform not as well in competitive League matches. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Swain is paired with K'Sante, he gets a small increase in his total damage dealt. This difference could signal that K'Sante supports by providing cover for him to deal more damage or that their support also helps extend the round's duration. Similarly, when Swain is played together with K'Sante on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing synergisticly with K'Sante.
Additionally, when Swain plays with K'Sante on the same side, he often receives a little less damage than when he fights alone. Receiving not as much damage could mean that K'Sante does a decent job of protecting Swain during team fights.
Synergies between Swain and K'Sante
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Is Swain better when played alongside K'Sante?
There is no top champion pairing for Swain that will always be his best synergy. However, K'Sante is a terrible teammate for Swain. By playing on the same side as Swain, they decreases their win rate by -3.9% to 47.4%. This proves that there is a terrible bond between Swain and K'Sante that allows them to perform not as well together than alone.
K'Sante has a greater difficulty than Swain. That means you should be cautious when finding K'Sante comrades to play with, as they will require a greater level of skill to be able to fight well with you.
When playing cooperatively, you should expect to witness an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to to do a lot of AP damage. Combined, these champions are able to dish out a surprising amount of magic type damage.
Conversely, by bringing Swain and K'Sante together, you will not be granting your other allies enough support. Make sure to bring other champs on your team that offsets this relative gap in this pairing's playstyle.
Regardless of your K'Sante ally's ability, you should focus on maximizing your gold income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and clearing objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you should do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To truly master Swain to work well with K'Sante during both the lane and mid / late game phases of LoL games, you should keep reading to learn a few extra lessons on this champion pairing. If you mind the build and suggestions presented here, you will grow your win rate significantly.
The most important finished items to have in your Swain and K'Sante synergy build consist of Malignance, Zhonya's Hourglass, and Liandry's Torment. When Swain bought at least these three items in his build, he did a lot better when paired up with K'Sante than with most other commonly used builds. In fact, Swain had an average win rate of 47.4% when synergizing his build and playstyle to K'Sante with these items in his kit.
To have the greatest chance of annihilating your oponents, you 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 that we analyzed for Swain and K'Sante pairings, this composite of runes yielded the best win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 47.4% winrate overall.
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