Swain with Taliyah
How to Synergize Swain and Taliyah
based on 1,157 Swain with Taliyah pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Swain Taliyah Synergy Summary
Best Swain vs Taliyah Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Swain and Taliyah
Tips for Playing as Swain with Taliyah
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 Taliyah Will Play
Remember, you don't always have to ride Weaver's Wall.
Try to throw enemies into Unraveled Earth using Seismic Shove.
Once you have Rylai's Crystal Scepter, casting Threaded Volley at enemies chasing you is a great way of making them regret everything.
Swain Taliyah Synergy Stats
How to Play with Taliyah as Swain in LoL
The Swain Taliyah synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Taliyah, 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 Taliyah. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Taliyah helps Swain perform worse in competitive League of Legends rounds. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Swain is paired with Taliyah, he sees a small decrease in his total damage output. This may signal that Taliyah does not provide protection for him to deal more damage or that her allyship also helps extend the round's duration. Similarly, when Swain is played alongside Taliyah on the same team, 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 Taliyah.
Additionally, when Swain plays with Taliyah on the same team, he typically receives a little more damage than when he fights alone. Getting dealt more damage could indicate that Taliyah does a poor job of covering Swain during team fights.
Synergies between Swain and Taliyah
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Is Swain better when played alongside Taliyah?
There is no one best ally for Swain that will always be his #1 synergy. However, Taliyah is a terrible companion for Swain. By being on the same team as Swain, she lowers their win rate by -4.2% to 47.1%. This shows that there is an easy to overcome and exploit strategic relationship between Swain and Taliyah that allows them to perform worse together than without each other.
Taliyah has a much lower diffuclty than Swain. That means Swain players don't need to be careful when lining up Taliyah allies to go into battle on the same side as, as they will have to have a much lower level of skill to fight well with you.
Working alongside, Swain players should observe an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to to do a lot of AP damage. Together, these two can blast through enemies with magic damage.
Conversely, by grouping Swain and Taliyah together, you probably will not be providing your other teammates enough AD. We recommend you have other champions on your team that nullifies this relative disparity in their capabilities.
Regardless of the ability of your Taliyah teammate, you need to focus on increasing your income, warding to avoid ambushes, and taking down objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you should do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to truly master Swain in order to work well with Taliyah during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League rounds, you should continue reading to learn a few extra tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you use the build and tips presented above, you should grow your win rate significantly.
The ideal items to build first in your Swain and Taliyah synergy build include Rylai's Crystal Scepter, Zaz'Zak's Realmspike, and Liandry's Torment. When Swain incorporated at least these three finished items in his build, he did much better as an ally of Taliyah than with many other commonly used builds. In fact, Swain boasted an average win rate of 47.1% helping carry Taliyah with this build.
To have the best probability of crushing your oponents, Swain players 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 Taliyah pairings, this blending of runes yielded the top win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 47.1% winrate overall.
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