Swain with Maokai
How to Synergize Swain and Maokai
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Swain Maokai Synergy Summary
Best Swain vs Maokai Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Swain and Maokai
Tips for Playing as Swain with Maokai
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 Maokai Will Play
Maokai's passive makes him extremely durable against focus fire from spells - so long as he can still basic attack something.
Try looking for flanks or other situations where Nature's Grasp is unavoidable or takes enemies by surprise.
Saplings can be tossed into brush for empowered effect - but don't stack well.
Swain Maokai Synergy Stats
How to Play with Maokai as Swain in LoL
The Swain Maokai synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Maokai, 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 Maokai. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This negative change shows that Maokai helps Swain perform not as well in ranked League of Legends games. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Swain tries to synergize with Maokai, he sees a little increase in his complete damage dealt. This change may indicate that Maokai provides cover for him to dish out more damage or that his presence on the team also helps extend the match's duration. Similarly, when Swain is played together with Maokai on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays without Maokai. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing with Maokai.
Additionally, when Swain plays with Maokai on the same team, he on average receives a little more damage than when he plays alone. Taking more damage could indicate that Maokai does a poor job of protecting Swain during team fights.
Synergies between Swain and Maokai
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Is Swain better when played alongside Maokai?
There is no one best synergy for Swain that will always be his #1 synergy. Yet, overall, Maokai is a pretty good ally for Swain. By being on the same team as Swain, he increases their win rate by 2.4% to 53.7%. This demonstrates that there is a good synergy between Swain and Maokai that results in them performing at the top of their game together than alone.
Maokai has a much lower diffuclty than Swain. That means Swain players don't need to be cautious when arranging Maokai teammates to play with, as they will require a much lower level of skill to work well with you.
When playing together, Swain players should expect to see an overall large increase in your team’s ability to to do a lot of AP damage. Together, these two are able to dish out a surprising amount of magic type damage.
In contrast, by pairing Swain and Maokai together, you may not be providing your other teammates a great deal of anti-tank damage dealing potential. Make sure to bring other champions on your team that neutralizes this relative hole in their capabilities.
Regardless of your Maokai ally's ability, you need to focus on increasing your gold income, outlasting your enemies, and taking down 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 synergize with Maokai during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends matches, you should continue reading to gather some more lessons on this champion pairing. If you use the build and suggestions displayed above, you will grow your win rate significantly.
The most crucial finished items to have in your Swain and Maokai synergy build consist of Malignance, Zhonya's Hourglass, and Liandry's Torment. When Swain combined at least these three items in his build, he performed significantly better as an ally of Maokai than with most other commonly used item sets. In fact, Swain boasted an average winrate of 53.7% helping carry Maokai with this build.
To have the highest probability of vanquishing your oponents, you should take the Summon Aery, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Scorch, Conditioning, and Overgrowth runes from the Sorcery and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the rune sets players chose for this champion pairing, this sequence of runes resulted in the highest win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 53.7% winrate overall.
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