Swain with Lucian
How to Synergize Swain and Lucian
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Swain Lucian Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Swain and Lucian
Tips for Playing as Swain with Lucian
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 Lucian Will Play
For optimal burst, try to combine Relentless Pursuit into Piercing Light.
Ardent Blaze actually explodes in a star pattern. Try to line it up so the spokes hit enemy champions.
Because of Lightslinger, Lucian benefits more from Attack Damage than he does from Attack Speed.
Once you have chosen an angle for The Culling, you cannot change it. Pick your moment well!
Swain Lucian Synergy Stats
How to Play with Lucian as Swain in LoL
The Swain Lucian synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Lucian, 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 Lucian. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Lucian helps Swain perform poorer in ranked League of Legends rounds. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is only marginal.
When Swain is paired with Lucian, he sees a small increase in his complete damage dealt. This change may demonstrate that Lucian provides cover for him to deal more damage or that his presence also helps extend the game's duration. Similarly, when Swain is played alongside Lucian 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 Lucian.
Additionally, when Swain plays with Lucian on the same team, he typically receives a little more damage than when he fights alone. Receiving more damage may indicate that Lucian does a poor job of protecting Swain during teamfights.
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Is Swain better when played alongside Lucian?
There is no one best companion for Swain that will 100% of the time be his best teammate. However, Lucian is a very typical companion for Swain. By locking into the same side as Swain, he drops their win rate by -0.6% to 50.7%. This signals that there is not really a strong synergy between Swain and Lucian that allows them to perform not as well together than alone.
Lucian has a lower difficulty than Swain. That means Swain players don't need to be cautious when finding Lucian allies to fight alongside, as they will need a lower level of skill to fight well with you.
When playing cooperatively, Swain players should witness an overall large increase in your team’s ability to deal magical damage. When paired, these champs can blast through enemies with magic damage.
In contrast, by aligning Swain and Lucian together, you may not be giving your side enough crowd control. Plan to have other champions on your team that neutralizes this gap in this pairing's playstyle.
Regardless of your Lucian ally's ability, you need to focus on maximizing your income, warding to avoid ambushes, and clearing objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you will do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To truly master Swain to pair well with Lucian during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League matches, you should keep reading to pick up some more tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and tips shown here, you should increase your win rate by a lot.
The top items to prioritize in your Swain and Lucian synergy build consist of Frozen Heart, Rylai's Crystal Scepter, and Liandry's Torment. When Swain combined at least these three pieces in his build, he did significantly better as an ally of Lucian than with many other common builds. In fact, Swain had an average winrate of 50.7% helping carry Lucian with these items in his kit.
To have the greatest probability of beating your oponents, Swain players should use the Summon Aery, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Scorch, Conditioning, and Overgrowth runes from the Sorcery and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the rune builds players chose for Swain and Lucian pairings, this mixture of runes yielded the best win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 50.7% win rate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to team up Lucian with Swain are presented for all ranked divisions combined. If you would like to filter the statistics and builds to a distinct division, you may use the selection menu located earlier in the counter matchup guide.