Swain with Volibear
How to Synergize Swain and Volibear
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Swain Volibear Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Swain and Volibear
Tips for Playing as Swain with Volibear
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.
Swain Volibear Synergy Stats
How to Play with Volibear as Swain in LoL
The Swain Volibear synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Volibear, 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 Volibear. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This fall shows that Volibear helps Swain perform poorer in ranked LoL rounds. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Swain is paired with Volibear, he gets a little decrease in his full damage dealt. This difference may signal that Volibear does not provide cover for him to dish out more damage or that his allyship also helps increase the round's duration. Similarly, when Swain is played with Volibear on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays without Volibear. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing alongside Volibear.
Additionally, when Swain plays with Volibear on the same team, he usually receives a little less damage than when he fights alone. Taking not as much damage could mean that Volibear does a decent job of covering Swain during teamfights.
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Is Swain better when played alongside Volibear?
There is no top ally for Swain that will 100% of the time be his ideal ally. Yet, Volibear is a very typical ally for Swain. By locking into the same team as Swain, he lowers their win rate by -0.3% to 51.0%. This clearly indicates that there is only a small bond between Swain and Volibear that results in them performing worse together than without each other.
Volibear has a much lower diffuclty than Swain. That means Swain players don't need to be careful when enlisting Volibear comrades to fight alongside, as they will need a much lower level of skill to play well with you.
Fighting alongside, you will likely see an overall large increase in your team’s capability to to do a lot of AP damage. Combined, these champs are able to dish out a surprising amount of magic type damage.
Although, by bringing Swain and Volibear together, you probably will not be giving your other allies enough utility. Plan to include other champions on your team that offsets this gap in their playstyle.
Regardless of your Volibear ally's skill level, you need to focus on increasing your gold income, warding to avoid ambushes, and clearing objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you will do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Swain in order to pair well with Volibear during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League, you should continue reading to learn some more lessons on this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and stats presented above, you will grow your win rate by a lot.
The most crucial finished items to include in your Swain and Volibear synergy build consist of Rylai's Crystal Scepter, Malignance, and Liandry's Torment. When Swain combined at least these three great items in his build, he did a lot better as an ally of Volibear than with most other common item sets. In fact, Swain had an average winrate of 51.0% when playing alongside Volibear with these items in his kit.
To have the greatest chance of coming out on top against your oponents, you should take 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 combinations that we analyzed for this champion pairing, this sequence of runes yielded the highest win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 51.0% winrate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to synergize Volibear with Swain are presented for all ranked divisions. To narrow the statistics and builds to a specific division, you should use the selection menu earlier on the page.