Swain with Yasuo
How to Synergize Swain and Yasuo
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Swain Yasuo Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Swain and Yasuo
Tips for Playing as Swain with Yasuo
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 Yasuo Will Play
Last Breath can be cast on any target that is knocked Airborne, even by one of your allies.
Dash through a minion to have Sweeping Blade available to chase your opponent should they flee; Dash directly to your opponent to preserve a minion as your escape route.
At level 18, Yasuo's Steel Tempest reaches its Attack Speed cap with 55% Attack Speed from items.
Swain Yasuo Synergy Stats
How to Play with Yasuo as Swain in LoL
The Swain Yasuo synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Yasuo, 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 Yasuo. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Yasuo helps Swain perform poorer in competitive League matches. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Swain tries to synergize with Yasuo, he gets a small increase in his complete damage output. This change could signal that Yasuo provides protection for him to dish out more damage or that his support also helps increase the game's duration. Similarly, when Swain is played together with Yasuo on the same team, 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 synergisticly with Yasuo.
Moreover, when Swain plays with Yasuo on the same side, he typically receives a little less damage than when he plays alone. Receiving not as much damage could mean that Yasuo does a decent job of covering Swain in teamfights.
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Is Swain better when played alongside Yasuo?
There is no top companion for Swain that will always be his ideal synergy. Yet, overall, Yasuo is a very typical ally for Swain. By playing on the same side as Swain, he increases their win rate by 0.6% to 51.9%. This shows that there is not really a strong bond between Swain and Yasuo that allows them to perform at the top of their game together than without each other.
Yasuo has a greater difficulty than Swain. That means Swain players need to be very careful when lining up Yasuo allies to go into battle on the same side as, as they will have to have a greater level of skill to work well with you.
Working together, you should expect to observe an overall large increase in your team’s ability to deal magical damage. When paired, these champions can deal quite a lot of AP type damage.
Conversely, by aligning Swain and Yasuo together, you will not be providing your other teammates a lot of support. We recommend you have other champions on your team that neutralizes this relative disparity in their abilities.
Regardless of your Yasuo ally's skill level, you need to focus on maximizing your income, outlasting your enemies, and clearing objectives. If you do this, you will do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to truly master Swain in order to pair well with Yasuo during both the early game and mid / late game phases of LoL matches, you should keep reading to gather a few extra tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and tips displayed above, you will increase your win rate significantly.
The most crucial finished items to focus on in your Swain and Yasuo synergy build include Rylai's Crystal Scepter, Zaz'Zak's Realmspike, and Luden's Companion. When Swain incorporated at least these three great items in his build, he did much better when fighting alongside Yasuo than with most other common item sets. In fact, Swain had an average winrate of 51.9% when playing alongside Yasuo with these items in his kit.
To have the highest probability of coming out on top against your oponents, you should equip the Conqueror, Presence of Mind, Legend: Tenacity, Last Stand, Manaflow Band, and Transcendence runes from the Precision and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the rune combinations that we analyzed for this team composition, this combo of runes resulted in the top win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 51.9% winrate overall.
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