Swain with Sona
How to Synergize Swain and Sona
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Swain Sona Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Swain and Sona
Tips for Playing as Swain with Sona
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 Sona Will Play
Make sure to tag your allies while Sona's auras are active, but avoid getting caught out by enemies.
Save Crescendo for the game-altering moment.
Well-timed uses of Aria of Perseverance will grant you maximum survivability.
Swain Sona Synergy Stats
How to Play with Sona as Swain in LoL
The Swain Sona synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Sona, 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 Sona. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Sona helps Swain perform not as well in competitive LoL rounds. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is only marginal.
When Swain plays on the same team as Sona, he sees a marginal improvement in his total damage output. This could indicate that Sona helps provide cover for him to deal more damage or that her support also helps increase the round's duration. Similarly, when Swain is played with Sona on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing with Sona.
Additionally, when Swain plays with Sona on the same team, he often takes a little less damage than when he plays alone. Receiving not as much damage may mean that Sona does a decent job of covering Swain in team fights.
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Is Swain better when played alongside Sona?
There is no top synergy for Swain that will no matter what be his best ally. Yet, Sona is a decent ally for Swain. By being on the same side as Swain, she raises their win rate by 2.0% to 53.3%. This signals that there is pretty good bond between Swain and Sona that allows them to perform better together than without each other.
Sona has a much lower diffuclty than Swain. That means Swain players don't need to be cautious when enlisting Sona teammates to go into battle on the same side as, as they will have to have a much lower level of skill to be able to cooperate well with you.
Playing cooperatively, Swain players should expect to observe an overall large increase in your team’s ability to deal magical damage. Combined, these champions can deal quite a lot of AP type damage.
Conversely, by aligning Swain and Sona together, you probably will not be granting your other teammates a great deal of anti-tank damage dealing potential. Make sure to pick other champions on your team that fills this relative hole in this pairing's potential.
Regardless of your Sona ally's ability, you need to focus on maximizing your gold income, warding to avoid ambushes, and clearing 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 truly master Swain in order to work well with Sona during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends games, you should continue reading to gather additional lessons on this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and tips presented here, you should increase your win rate by a lot.
The best finished items to include in your Swain and Sona synergy build include Rylai's Crystal Scepter, Zhonya's Hourglass, and Liandry's Torment. When Swain incorporated at least these three great items in his build, he performed much better when paired up with Sona than with many other common item sets. In fact, Swain had an average win rate of 53.3% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Sona with this build.
To have the best chance of vanquishing your oponents, you should equip the Summon Aery, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Scorch, Conditioning, and Overgrowth runes from the Sorcery and Resolve rune sets. Of all the rune sets players used for Swain and Sona pairings, this mix of runes resulted in the top win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 53.3% win rate overall.
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