Swain with Viktor
How to Synergize Swain and Viktor
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Swain Viktor Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Swain and Viktor
Tips for Playing as Swain with Viktor
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 Viktor Will Play
Make sure you choose the right augment at the right time.
Death Ray is a powerful poke and a strong area of denial tool. Use it in combination with Gravity Field to control your enemy's position.
Swain Viktor Synergy Stats
How to Play with Viktor as Swain in LoL
The Swain Viktor synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Viktor, 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 Viktor. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Viktor helps Swain perform worse in ranked League of Legends rounds. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Swain tries to synergize with Viktor, he sees a noticable drop in his complete damage dealt. This change may indicate that Viktor does not help cover for him to deal more damage or that his presence on the team also helps extend the match's duration. Similarly, when Swain is played together with Viktor 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 Viktor.
Additionally, when Swain plays with Viktor on the same team, he on average takes a little less damage than when he fights alone. Taking not as much damage may mean that Viktor does a decent job of covering Swain in teamfights.
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Is Swain better when played alongside Viktor?
There is no perfect synergy for Swain that will no matter what be his ideal teammate. However, overall, Viktor is a very typical ally for Swain. By being on the same team as Swain, he lowers their win rate by -0.7% to 50.6%. This shows that there is only a small strategic relationship between Swain and Viktor that allows them to perform not as well together than alone.
Viktor has a greater difficulty than Swain. That means Swain players must be cautious when arranging Viktor allies to play with, as they will need a greater level of skill to be able to work well with you.
When playing alongside, Swain players will likely witness an overall large increase in your team’s capability to deal magic damage. When paired, these champions can blast through enemies with magic damage.
Although, by aligning Swain and Viktor together, you probably will not be giving your other allies a lot of sustained damage output. Plan to have other champions on your team that neutralizes this hole in this pairing's abilities.
Regardless of the ability of your Viktor teammate, you need to focus on increasing your income, outlasting your enemies, and clearing objectives. If you do this, you should do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To truly master Swain to synergize with Viktor during both the laning and mid / late game phases of LoL, you should keep reading to master some more lessons on this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and stats shown here, you will increase your win rate significantly.
The most crucial finished items to have in your Swain and Viktor synergy build consist of Rylai's Crystal Scepter, Malignance, and Zaz'Zak's Realmspike. When Swain bought at least these three pieces in his build, he performed much better when fighting alongside Viktor than with most other common builds. In fact, Swain boasted an average winrate of 50.6% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Viktor with this build.
To have the best chance of annihilating your oponents, Swain players should use the Conqueror, Presence of Mind, Legend: Tenacity, Last Stand, Conditioning, and Overgrowth runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Of all the rune sets we have analyed for this team composition, this combo of runes resulted in the best win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 50.6% win rate overall.
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