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.
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.
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.
Follow your Blood Hunt trails to low health enemy champions.
Jaws of the Beast (Q) will follow enemies who run, dash or teleport if you keep the button held down.
Infinite Duress (R)'s distance scales with any Move Speed you gain, even from ally buffs and summoner spells.
The Swain Warwick synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Warwick, 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 Warwick. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This fall shows that Warwick helps Swain perform not as well in competitive League of Legends games. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Swain is an ally to Warwick, he gets a marginal improvement in his total damage dealt. This could demonstrate that Warwick provides cover for him to deal more damage or that his support also helps extend the round's duration. Similarly, when Swain is played with Warwick on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing alongside Warwick.
Additionally, when Swain plays with Warwick on the same side, he typically receives a little less damage than when he plays alone. Taking not as much damage may mean that Warwick does a decent job of protecting Swain during team fights.
There is no perfect companion for Swain that will always be his top synergy. Yet, Warwick is a pretty good teammate for Swain. By locking into the same side as Swain, he raises their win rate by 1.9% to 53.4%. This shows that there is a potentially meaningful bond between Swain and Warwick that allows them to perform better together than alone.
Warwick has a much lower diffuclty than Swain. That means you don't need to be cautious when lining up Warwick teammates to fight alongside, as they will need a much lower level of skill to cooperate well with you.
Fighting alongside, you should witness an overall large increase in your team’s capability to deal magic damage. Together, these champs are able to dish out a surprising amount of magic type damage.
Conversely, by pairing Swain and Warwick together, you may not be providing your other teammates very much utility. We recommend you bring other champions on your team that neutralizes this disparity in their kit.
Regardless of your Warwick ally's ability, you should focus on increasing your gold income, warding to avoid ambushes, and taking down objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you will do well anyway.
If you would like to truly master Swain to work well with Warwick during both the early game and mid / late game phases of LoL matches, you should keep reading to master some more tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you use the build and stats displayed above, you will grow your win rate by a lot.
The best finished items to prioritize in your Swain and Warwick synergy build consist of Radiant Virtue, Rylai's Crystal Scepter, and Shard of True Ice. When Swain used at least these three items in his build, he performed much better when fighting alongside Warwick than with most other commonly used builds. In fact, Swain had an average winrate of 53.4% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Warwick with these items in his kit.
To have the highest likelihood of crushing your oponents, Swain players should take the Electrocute, Cheap Shot, Eyeball Collection, Treasure Hunter, Presence of Mind, and Legend: Tenacity runes from the Domination and Precision rune sets. Out of all the rune builds we have analyed for this team composition, this sequence of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 53.4% winrate overall.
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