Swain with Thresh
How to Synergize Swain and Thresh
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Swain Thresh Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Swain and Thresh
Tips for Playing as Swain with Thresh
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 Thresh Will Play
Communication is key when making use of Thresh's lantern. Let your teammates know how you like to use it.
Death Sentence and Flay can be combined in either cast order for powerful combinations.
Thresh can collect souls without needing to kill units himself. Planning your map position to be near the most deaths will help to maximize soul collection.
Swain Thresh Synergy Stats
How to Play with Thresh as Swain in LoL
The Swain Thresh synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Thresh, 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 Thresh. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Thresh helps Swain perform not as well in competitive League matches. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Swain is paired with Thresh, he gets a noticable increase in his total damage output. This difference could signal that Thresh helps provide cover for him to dish out more damage or that his participation also helps increase the round's duration. Similarly, when Swain is played with Thresh on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays without Thresh. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing with Thresh.
Additionally, when Swain plays with Thresh on the same side, he often takes a little more damage than when he fights alone. Getting dealt more damage could indicate that Thresh does a poor job of covering Swain in team fights.
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Is Swain better when played alongside Thresh?
There is no ideal champion pairing for Swain that will 100% of the time be his top teammate. However, overall, Thresh is a very typical companion for Swain. By playing on the same team as Swain, he drops their win rate by -0.7% to 50.6%. This demonstrates that there is only a small synergy between Swain and Thresh that allows them to perform worse together than alone.
Thresh has a lower difficulty than Swain. That means you don't need to be cautious when arranging Thresh teammates to fight alongside, as they will have to have a relatively low level of skill to be able to cooperate well with you.
When playing on the same side, you should see an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to deal magic damage. Combined, these champs can deal quite a lot of AP type damage.
Although, by bringing Swain and Thresh together, you probably will not be giving your team much anti-tank damage dealing potential. Plan to include other champs on your team that helps cover this relative disparity in their capabilities.
Regardless of your Thresh ally's skill level, you need to focus on maximizing your gold income, outlasting your enemies, and clearing objectives. If you do this, you should do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To truly master Swain to pair well with Thresh during both the early game and mid / late game phases of LoL rounds, you should keep reading to learn additional tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you mind the build and tips shown here, you should grow your win rate significantly.
The top finished items to include in your Swain and Thresh synergy build include Rylai's Crystal Scepter, Malignance, and Riftmaker. When Swain bought at least these three great items in his build, he performed significantly better when fighting alongside Thresh than with most other common item sets. In fact, Swain had an average winrate of 50.6% helping carry Thresh with these items in his kit.
To have the best probability of vanquishing your oponents, Swain players should equip the Summon Aery, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Scorch, Presence of Mind, and Last Stand runes from the Sorcery and Precision rune sets. Of all the runes players picked for Swain and Thresh pairings, this sequence of runes yielded the top win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 50.6% win rate overall.
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