Swain with Ryze
How to Synergize Swain and Ryze
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Swain Ryze Synergy Summary
Best Swain vs Ryze Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Swain and Ryze
Tips for Playing as Swain with Ryze
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 Ryze Will Play
Spell Flux's short cooldown allows it to be used to spread Flux to many enemies.
Use Overload's passive to optimize for maximum damage or maximum speed.
Ryze can move and cast other spells while Realm Warp is charging without cancelling the portal.
Swain Ryze Synergy Stats
How to Play with Ryze as Swain in LoL
The Swain Ryze synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Ryze, 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 Ryze. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Ryze helps Swain perform worse in competitive LoL rounds. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Swain plays on the same team as Ryze, he observes a little drop in his total damage dealt. This change could demonstrate that Ryze doesn't help protection for him to dish out more damage or that his presence on the team also helps increase the match's duration. Similarly, when Swain is played together with Ryze on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays without Ryze. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing with Ryze.
Moreover, when Swain plays with Ryze on the same side, he typically receives a little more damage than when he fights alone. Getting dealt more damage could mean that Ryze does a poor job of covering Swain during team fights.
Synergies between Swain and Ryze
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Is Swain better when played alongside Ryze?
There is no universally accepted best companion for Swain that will always be his #1 synergy. However, Ryze is a relatively poor ally for Swain. By playing on the same side as Swain, he decreases their win rate by -2.2% to 49.1%. This signals that there is a harmful synergy between Swain and Ryze that results in them performing worse together than alone.
Ryze has a lower difficulty than Swain. That means you don't need to be careful when enlisting Ryze teammates to go into battle on the same side as, as they will require a relatively low level of skill to be able to fight well with you.
When playing cooperatively, you should witness an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to to do a lot of AP damage. Combined, these champs are able to dish out a surprising amount of magic type damage.
Conversely, by pairing Swain and Ryze together, you probably will not be giving your other allies a lot of AD. Make sure to bring other champs on your team that neutralizes this relative disparity in this pairing's capabilities.
Regardless of the skill of your Ryze teammate, you should focus on maximizing your income, warding to avoid ambushes, and taking down objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you should do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To learn all of the intricacies of Swain in order to pair well with Ryze during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League matches, you should continue reading to pick up additional tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and tips presented above, you will grow your win rate significantly.
The most crucial items to focus on in your Swain and Ryze synergy build consist of Rylai's Crystal Scepter, Malignance, and Zaz'Zak's Realmspike. When Swain used at least these three finished items in his build, he performed much better as an ally of Ryze than with many other commonly used builds. In fact, Swain had an average winrate of 49.1% helping carry Ryze with these items in his kit.
To have the highest chance of defeating 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. Out of all the rune builds players picked for Swain and Ryze pairings, this composite of runes yielded the top win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 49.1% winrate overall.
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