Swain with Xin Zhao
How to Synergize Swain and Xin Zhao
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Swain Xin Zhao Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Swain and Xin Zhao
Tips for Playing as Swain with Xin Zhao
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 Xin Zhao Will Play
Try to position yourself so your ultimate's knockback is most effective.
Xin Zhao is a great initiator to combat. Lead the front to start a fight and use your ultimate to do the most damage possible.
Swain Xin Zhao Synergy Stats
How to Play with Xin Zhao as Swain in LoL
The Swain Xin Zhao synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Xin Zhao, 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 Xin Zhao. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Xin Zhao helps Swain perform not as well in ranked League of Legends matches. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Swain plays on the same team as Xin Zhao, he sees a little drop in his full damage dealt. This change may demonstrate that Xin Zhao does not help cover for him to deal more damage or that his support also helps increase the round's duration. Similarly, when Swain is played together with Xin Zhao 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 Xin Zhao.
Additionally, when Swain plays with Xin Zhao on the same side, he on average takes a little less damage than when he fights alone. Getting dealt not as much damage could indicate that Xin Zhao does a decent job of covering Swain during team fights.
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Is Swain better when played alongside Xin Zhao?
There is no ideal companion for Swain that will always be his top synergy. However, Xin Zhao is a decent teammate for Swain. By locking into the same team as Swain, he raises their win rate by 1.2% to 52.5%. This clearly indicates that there is a potentially meaningful bond between Swain and Xin Zhao that allows them to perform at the top of their game together than alone.
Xin Zhao has a much lower diffuclty than Swain. That means you don't need to be careful when arranging Xin Zhao teammates to fight alongside, as they will require a much lower level of skill to cooperate well with you.
When playing on the same side, Swain players will likely witness an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to deal magical damage. When paired, these champs can deal quite a lot of AP type damage.
Conversely, by aligning Swain and Xin Zhao together, you probably will not be giving your team much support. Plan to bring other champs on your team that fills this gap in their playstyle.
Regardless of the skill of your Xin Zhao teammate, you need to focus on maximizing your income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and taking down objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you will do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To learn all of the intricacies of Swain in order to pair well with Xin Zhao during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League rounds, you should continue reading to learn additional tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and suggestions presented here, you will grow your win rate significantly.
The ideal finished items to build first in your Swain and Xin Zhao synergy build include Rylai's Crystal Scepter, Zaz'Zak's Realmspike, and Liandry's Torment. When Swain bought at least these three finished items in his build, he did a lot better as an ally of Xin Zhao than with many other common item sets. In fact, Swain boasted an average win rate of 52.5% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Xin Zhao with these items in his kit.
To have the best probability of coming out on top against your oponents, you should equip the Conqueror, Presence of Mind, Legend: Tenacity, Last Stand, Conditioning, and Overgrowth runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Of all the rune builds that we analyzed for this team composition, this combo of runes yielded the best win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 52.5% win rate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to synergize Xin Zhao with Swain are given for all ranked divisions combined. If you would like to scope the statistics and builds to a distinct rank, you can use the selection menu located earlier on the page.