Swain with Olaf
How to Synergize Swain and Olaf
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Swain Olaf Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Swain and Olaf
Tips for Playing as Swain with Olaf
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 Olaf Will Play
Olaf can combine Berserker Rage, Vicious Strikes, and Ragnarok at low life to become deceptively strong.
The bonus healing granted by Vicious Strikes amplifies your Life Steal from all sources as well as heals from allies.
Swain Olaf Synergy Stats
How to Play with Olaf as Swain in LoL
The Swain Olaf synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Olaf, 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 Olaf. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This decrease shows that Olaf helps Swain perform worse in competitive League rounds. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Swain plays on the same team as Olaf, he sees a marginal improvement in his complete damage output. This may demonstrate that Olaf helps provide protection for him to deal more damage or that his allyship also helps increase the game's duration. Similarly, when Swain is played together with Olaf on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing alongside Olaf.
Moreover, when Swain plays with Olaf on the same team, he often receives a little less damage than when he plays alone. Taking not as much damage may indicate that Olaf does a decent job of protecting Swain during team fights.
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Is Swain better when played alongside Olaf?
There is no one best companion for Swain that will 100% of the time be his top teammate. However, overall, Olaf is a relatively poor teammate for Swain. By playing on the same side as Swain, he decreases their win rate by -1.1% to 50.2%. This demonstrates that there is a bad bond between Swain and Olaf that results in them performing not as well together than without each other.
Olaf has a much lower diffuclty than Swain. That means Swain players don't need to be cautious when enlisting Olaf comrades to play with, as they will require a much lower level of skill to fight well with you.
When playing alongside, you should expect to see an overall large increase in your team’s ability to to do a lot of AP damage. Together, these champs can blast through enemies with magic damage.
Conversely, by pairing Swain and Olaf together, you will not be giving your side very much utility. We recommend you pick other champions on your team that nullifies this relative gap in their abilities.
Regardless of your Olaf ally's ability, you should focus on maximizing your gold income, outlasting your enemies, 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 in order to synergize with Olaf during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends games, you should continue reading to learn additional tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and stats shown above, you will increase your win rate by a lot.
The ideal finished items to prioritize in your Swain and Olaf synergy build include Malignance, Zaz'Zak's Realmspike, and Liandry's Torment. When Swain included at least these three items in his build, he performed much better when paired up with Olaf than with most other typical item sets. In fact, Swain boasted an average winrate of 50.2% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Olaf with these items in his kit.
To have the greatest likelihood of beating your oponents, you should take the Conqueror, Presence of Mind, Legend: Tenacity, Last Stand, Conditioning, and Overgrowth runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the runes players chose for this champion pairing, this sequence of runes yielded the top win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 50.2% winrate overall.
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