Swain with Pyke
How to Synergize Swain and Pyke
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Swain Pyke Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Swain and Pyke
Tips for Playing as Swain with Pyke
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 Pyke Will Play
The Tap version of Bone Skewer is much faster and deals additional damage.
A lot of your agressive spells are also your escapes. Make sure you always have a plan to get out of the fight.
Hitting an enemy with the Hold version of Bone Skewer will always pull them the same distance. Use it in melee range to throw targets behind you.
Pyke is very fragile so don't be afraid to temporarily run from a fight. You can regenerate a significant amount of health from Gift of the Drowned Ones when enemies can't see you.
Swain Pyke Synergy Stats
How to Play with Pyke as Swain in LoL
The Swain Pyke synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Pyke, 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 Pyke. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Pyke helps Swain perform worse in competitive League rounds. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is only marginal.
When Swain is paired with Pyke, he gets a sizeable uptick in his complete damage output. This could signal that Pyke provides cover for him to dish out more damage or that his support also helps extend the round's duration. Similarly, when Swain is played alongside Pyke on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing alongside Pyke.
Additionally, when Swain plays with Pyke on the same side, he often receives a little more damage than when he plays alone. Taking more damage could indicate that Pyke does a poor job of covering Swain in team fights.
Synergies between Swain and Pyke
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Is Swain better when played alongside Pyke?
There is no top champion pairing for Swain that will no matter what be his best synergy. Yet, overall, Pyke is a decent teammate for Swain. By locking into the same side as Swain, he raises their win rate by 1.5% to 52.8%. This clearly indicates that there is a potentially meaningful bond between Swain and Pyke that allows them to perform at the top of their game together than alone.
Pyke has a lower difficulty than Swain. That means you don't need to be cautious when enlisting Pyke allies to play with, as they will need a relatively low level of skill to be able to play well with you.
Working together, you will likely witness an overall large increase in your team’s ability to destroy wih physical damage. Combined, these champions should be able to take down targets with auto-attacks and other AD damage abilities.
Although, by grouping Swain and Pyke together, you will not be giving your team a great deal of tankyness. Make sure to have other champions on your team that nullifies this relative hole in this pairing's kit.
Regardless of your Pyke ally's ability, you should focus on increasing 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 Pyke during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League games, you should keep reading to learn a few extra tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and suggestions displayed here, you will increase your win rate significantly.
The top finished items to include in your Swain and Pyke synergy build include Rylai's Crystal Scepter, Malignance, and Riftmaker. When Swain included at least these three great items in his build, he did a lot better when fighting alongside Pyke than with most other common item sets. In fact, Swain boasted an average winrate of 52.8% helping carry Pyke with this build.
To have the best likelihood of crushing your oponents, Swain players should equip the Summon Aery, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Scorch, Conditioning, and Overgrowth runes from the Sorcery and Resolve rune sets. Of all the runes that we analyzed for this team composition, this mix of runes yielded the highest win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 52.8% winrate overall.
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