Swain with Sylas
How to Synergize Swain and Sylas
based on 3,149 Swain with Sylas pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Swain Sylas Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Swain and Sylas
Tips for Playing as Swain with Sylas
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 Sylas Will Play
Clever use of enemy ultimates can open up new possibilities to approach teamfights.
Wait for you or your enemy to reach low health before using Kingslayer for maximum effect.
Space out your ability usage to get maximum effect from Petricite Burst.
Swain Sylas Synergy Stats
How to Play with Sylas as Swain in LoL
The Swain Sylas synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Sylas, 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 Sylas. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This negative change shows that Sylas helps Swain perform poorer in ranked League of Legends rounds. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Swain is an ally to Sylas, he gets a barely noticable drop in his full damage output. This difference may demonstrate that Sylas does not provide protection for him to dish out more damage or that his support also helps extend the match's duration. Similarly, when Swain is played with Sylas on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing with Sylas.
Additionally, when Swain plays with Sylas on the same side, he typically takes a little less damage than when he fights alone. Receiving not as much damage could indicate that Sylas does a decent job of covering Swain in teamfights.
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Is Swain better when played alongside Sylas?
There is no one best champion pairing for Swain that will always be his ideal teammate. Yet, Sylas is a not very good teammate for Swain. By being on the same side as Swain, he decreases their win rate by -2.5% to 48.8%. This clearly indicates that there is a negative bond between Swain and Sylas that allows them to perform not as well together than alone.
Sylas has a much lower diffuclty than Swain. That means Swain players don't need to be very careful when arranging Sylas allies to fight alongside, as they will have to have a much lower level of skill to cooperate well with you.
When playing together, you should see an overall large increase in your team’s ability to deal magic damage. Together, these two are able to dish out a surprising amount of magic type damage.
In contrast, by aligning Swain and Sylas together, you probably will not be giving your other allies enough AD. Plan to pick other champions on your team that nullifies this relative disparity in this pairing's capabilities.
Regardless of your Sylas ally's ability, you need to focus on increasing your gold income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and clearing objectives. If you do this, you will do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To learn all of the intricacies of Swain in order to synergize with Sylas during both the laning and mid / late game phases of LoL games, you should continue reading to gather additional tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you use the build and stats presented here, you will increase your win rate by a lot.
The ideal finished items to use in your Swain and Sylas synergy build include Rylai's Crystal Scepter, Riftmaker, and Liandry's Torment. When Swain combined at least these three great items in his build, he did much better when fighting alongside Sylas than with most other commonly used item sets. In fact, Swain had an average winrate of 48.8% helping carry Sylas with these items in his kit.
To have the best probability of beating 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. Out of all the rune sets that we analyzed for Swain and Sylas pairings, this order of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 48.8% winrate overall.
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