Swain with Warwick
How to Synergize Swain and Warwick
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Swain Warwick Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Swain and Warwick
Tips for Playing as Swain with Warwick
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 Warwick Will Play
Infinite Duress (R)'s distance scales with any Move Speed you gain, even from ally buffs and summoner spells.
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.
Swain Warwick Synergy Stats
How to Play with Warwick as Swain in LoL
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 large worsening in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Warwick. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This negative change shows that Warwick helps Swain perform poorer in competitive League of Legends games. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Swain is paired with Warwick, he sees a small increase in his total damage dealt. This could indicate that Warwick helps provide cover for him to deal more damage or that his support also helps increase the game's duration. Similarly, when Swain is played with Warwick on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing alongside Warwick.
Additionally, when Swain plays with Warwick on the same side, he on average receives a little less damage than when he plays alone. Getting dealt not as much damage could indicate that Warwick does a decent job of covering Swain during team fights.
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Is Swain better when played alongside Warwick?
There is no ideal synergy for Swain that will 100% of the time be his top teammate. However, overall, Warwick is a very typical ally for Swain. By playing on the same team as Swain, he improves their win rate by 0.8% to 52.1%. This shows that there is not really a strong bond between Swain and Warwick that results in them performing stronger together than without each other.
Warwick has a much lower diffuclty than Swain. That means you don't need to be cautious when finding Warwick allies to fight alongside, as they will have to have a much lower level of skill to work well with you.
Fighting on the same side, you should expect to see an overall large increase in your team’s capability to deal magical damage. Combined, these champions can deal quite a lot of AP type damage.
Conversely, by aligning Swain and Warwick together, you may not be giving your team very much utility. Make sure to pick other champs on your team that helps cover this disparity in this pairing's playstyle.
Regardless of your Warwick ally's skill level, you should focus on increasing your gold income, warding to avoid ambushes, 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 in order to synergize with Warwick during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and stats shown above, you will grow your win rate significantly.
The ideal finished items to use in your Swain and Warwick synergy build include Zhonya's Hourglass, Riftmaker, and Liandry's Torment. When Swain incorporated at least these three items in his build, he did a lot better when paired up with Warwick than with many other typical builds. In fact, Swain had an average win rate of 52.1% helping carry Warwick with this build.
To have the best chance of defeating your oponents, you 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 chose for Swain and Warwick pairings, this sequence of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 52.1% win rate overall.
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