Swain with Shen
How to Synergize Swain and Shen
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Swain Shen Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Swain and Shen
Tips for Playing as Swain with Shen
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 Shen Will Play
Leverage your Energy to get a long-term advantage over Mana users.
Keep an eye on allies and be ready to save them with your teleport.
Swain Shen Synergy Stats
How to Play with Shen as Swain in LoL
The Swain Shen synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Shen, 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 Shen. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Shen helps Swain perform poorer in competitive LoL games. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Swain is paired with Shen, he sees a small increase in his full damage output. This difference may signal that Shen helps provide cover for him to deal more damage or that his participation also helps increase the game's duration. Similarly, when Swain is played with Shen on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays without Shen. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing synergisticly with Shen.
Additionally, when Swain plays with Shen on the same side, he typically takes a little less damage than when he plays alone. Taking not as much damage may mean that Shen does a decent job of covering Swain during team fights.
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Is Swain better when played alongside Shen?
There is no ideal ally for Swain that will always be his best ally. However, overall, Shen is a decent ally for Swain. By locking into the same team as Swain, he increases their win rate by 1.2% to 52.5%. This signals that there is a somewhat important strategic relationship between Swain and Shen that allows them to perform at the top of their game together than alone.
Shen has a much lower diffuclty than Swain. That means you don't need to be very careful when enlisting Shen comrades to play with, as they will have to have a much lower level of skill to be able to play well with you.
Playing cooperatively, you will likely observe an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to soak up damage. When paired, these champs will be able to tank for the rest of their team.
Although, by bringing Swain and Shen together, you will not be giving your other teammates much anti-tank damage dealing potential. We recommend you bring other champs on your team that nullifies this disparity in this pairing's capabilities.
Regardless of the ability of your Shen ally, you should focus on maximizing your income, outlasting your enemies, and taking down objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you will do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Swain to pair well with Shen during both the laning and mid / late game phases of LoL matches, you should continue reading to pick up additional tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and tips shown here, you will increase your win rate significantly.
The most crucial finished items to include in your Swain and Shen 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 a lot better as an ally of Shen than with many other commonly used item sets. In fact, Swain had an average win rate of 52.5% when playing alongside Shen with this build.
To have the best likelihood of annihilating your oponents, you should equip the Conqueror, Presence of Mind, Legend: Tenacity, Last Stand, Conditioning, and Overgrowth runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Of all the rune builds players chose for Swain and Shen pairings, this combo of runes yielded the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 52.5% win rate overall.
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