Swain with Rakan
How to Synergize Swain and Rakan
based on 1,847 Swain with Rakan pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Swain Rakan Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Swain and Rakan
Tips for Playing as Swain with Rakan
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 Rakan Will Play
Rakan's dash speeds increase with his Move Speed. Use the extra speed to surprise your enemies!
Danger is as fun as you let it be.
Rakan requires allies near him to make the most out of his tools.
Swain Rakan Synergy Stats
How to Play with Rakan as Swain in LoL
The Swain Rakan synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Rakan, 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 Rakan. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This negative change shows that Rakan 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 is paired with Rakan, he gets a big jump in his full damage dealt. This difference could signal that Rakan supports by providing cover for him to deal more damage or that his presence on the team also helps increase the game's duration. Similarly, when Swain is played together with Rakan on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing with Rakan.
Additionally, when Swain plays with Rakan on the same side, he often receives a little more damage than when he plays alone. Receiving more damage may mean that Rakan does a poor job of covering Swain in teamfights.
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Is Swain better when played alongside Rakan?
There is no ideal champion pairing for Swain that will always be his ideal teammate. Yet, Rakan is a superb teammate for Swain. By playing on the same team as Swain, he raises their win rate by 3.4% to 54.7%. This demonstrates that there is a strong strategic relationship between Swain and Rakan that results in them performing better together than without each other.
Rakan has a much lower diffuclty than Swain. That means Swain players don't need to be cautious when finding Rakan teammates to play with, as they will have to have a much lower level of skill to work well with you.
When playing on the same side, you will likely observe an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to deal magical damage. When paired, these champs can blast through enemies with magic damage.
Although, by grouping Swain and Rakan together, you may not be granting your side very much sustained damage output. Plan to pick other champs on your team that offsets this hole in their kit.
Regardless of your Rakan ally's ability, you should focus on increasing your gold income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, 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
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Swain in order to work well with Rakan during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League rounds, you should keep reading to learn additional tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you mind the build and suggestions shown above, you should increase your win rate significantly.
The most important items to build first in your Swain and Rakan synergy build include Rylai's Crystal Scepter, Malignance, and Liandry's Torment. When Swain used at least these three pieces in his build, he performed much better as an ally of Rakan than with many other common builds. In fact, Swain boasted an average win rate of 54.7% helping carry Rakan with this build.
To have the greatest probability of crushing 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 sets that we analyzed for this team composition, this sequence of runes resulted in the highest win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 54.7% winrate overall.
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