Swain with Vel'Koz
How to Synergize Swain and Vel'Koz
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Swain Vel'Koz Synergy Summary
Best Swain vs Vel'Koz Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Swain and Vel'Koz
Tips for Playing as Swain with Vel'Koz
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 Vel'Koz Will Play
Be very careful about when to use Life Form Disintegration Ray. Many champions have abilities that can interrupt the spell.
Shooting Plasma Fission diagonally and splitting at maximum range allows you to hit opponents that are out of the range of the initial missile, but is more challenging to pull off.
When laning, use Void Rift to kill minions while building stacks of Organic Deconstruction on your opponent. You can then follow up with your other abilities.
Swain Vel'Koz Synergy Stats
How to Play with Vel'Koz as Swain in LoL
The Swain Vel'Koz synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Vel'Koz, 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 Vel'Koz. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Vel'Koz helps Swain perform poorer in competitive LoL rounds. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Swain plays on the same team as Vel'Koz, he observes a little increase in his complete damage output. This difference may demonstrate that Vel'Koz supports by providing protection for him to dish out more damage or that his support also helps increase the match's duration. Similarly, when Swain is played alongside Vel'Koz on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays without Vel'Koz. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing with Vel'Koz.
Additionally, when Swain plays with Vel'Koz on the same team, he typically receives a little more damage than when he fights alone. Receiving more damage could indicate that Vel'Koz does a poor job of covering Swain in teamfights.
Synergies between Swain and Vel'Koz
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Is Swain better when played alongside Vel'Koz?
There is no top synergy for Swain that will no matter what be his ideal teammate. Yet, overall, Vel'Koz is a below average ally for Swain. By being on the same side as Swain, he drops their win rate by -1.6% to 49.7%. This shows that there is a bad bond between Swain and Vel'Koz that allows them to perform worse together than without each other.
Vel'Koz has a lower difficulty than Swain. That means you don't need to be very careful when finding Vel'Koz comrades to go into battle on the same side as, as they will require a lower level of skill to be able to play well with you.
When playing cooperatively, Swain players should expect to witness an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to to do a lot of AP damage. Combined, these champions can deal quite a lot of AP type damage.
Although, by grouping Swain and Vel'Koz together, you probably will not be granting your team much AD. We recommend you pick other champs on your team that neutralizes this relative gap in this pairing's potential.
Regardless of the skill of your Vel'Koz ally, you need to focus on increasing your income, outlasting your enemies, and taking down objectives. If you do this, you will do well, regardless.
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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 work well with Vel'Koz during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends matches, you should keep reading to learn some more lessons on this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and tips shown here, you will grow your win rate significantly.
The ideal items to get in your Swain and Vel'Koz synergy build consist of Rylai's Crystal Scepter, Zhonya's Hourglass, and Liandry's Torment. When Swain included at least these three great items in his build, he performed much better when fighting alongside Vel'Koz than with most other common builds. In fact, Swain had an average winrate of 49.7% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Vel'Koz with these items in his kit.
To have the highest chance of vanquishing your oponents, Swain players should use the Summon Aery, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Scorch, Conditioning, and Overgrowth runes from the Sorcery and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations players picked for this team composition, this sequence of runes yielded the top win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 49.7% winrate overall.
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