Swain with Zoe
How to Synergize Swain and Zoe
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Swain Zoe Synergy Summary
Best Swain vs Zoe Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Swain and Zoe
Tips for Playing as Swain with Zoe
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 Zoe Will Play
Sleepy Trouble Bubble travels further over walls. Find a hiding spot to set up for a long distance kill.
Break Sleep with your biggest damage source, since enemies who are asleep take double damage.
Paddle Star deals more damage the further it has flown. Casting it behind yourself before redirecting can deal tons of damage.
Swain Zoe Synergy Stats
How to Play with Zoe as Swain in LoL
The Swain Zoe synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Zoe, 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 Zoe. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This decrease shows that Zoe helps Swain perform not as well in ranked LoL rounds. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Swain tries to synergize with Zoe, he sees a barely noticable drop in his complete damage output. This change may signal that Zoe doesn't help cover for him to deal more damage or that her allyship also helps extend the game's duration. Similarly, when Swain is played together with Zoe on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays without Zoe. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing with Zoe.
Additionally, when Swain plays with Zoe on the same side, he on average takes a little more damage than when he fights alone. Getting dealt more damage may indicate that Zoe does a poor job of protecting Swain during teamfights.
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Is Swain better when played alongside Zoe?
There is no perfect champion pairing for Swain that will no matter what be his ideal teammate. Yet, Zoe is a very bad teammate for Swain. By playing on the same team as Swain, she decreases their win rate by -3.7% to 47.6%. This clearly indicates that there is an easy to overcome and exploit bond between Swain and Zoe that results in them performing worse together than alone.
Zoe has a much lower diffuclty than Swain. That means Swain players don't need to be very careful when lining up Zoe comrades to fight alongside, as they will have to have a much lower level of skill to be able to play well with you.
Working alongside, Swain players should expect to observe an overall large increase in your team’s capability to to do a lot of AP damage. Combined, these champs can blast through enemies with magic damage.
Although, by pairing Swain and Zoe together, you may not be providing your team a lot of anti-tank damage dealing potential. Plan to have other champions on your team that fills this relative disparity in their kit.
Regardless of your Zoe ally's ability, you need to focus on increasing your gold income, warding to avoid ambushes, and clearing objectives. If you do this, 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 to pair well with Zoe during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League, you should continue reading to learn a few extra lessons on this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and suggestions displayed above, you will grow your win rate significantly.
The ideal items to include in your Swain and Zoe synergy build include Rylai's Crystal Scepter, Zaz'Zak's Realmspike, and Liandry's Torment. When Swain incorporated at least these three finished items in his build, he did significantly better when fighting alongside Zoe than with most other commonly used builds. In fact, Swain had an average winrate of 47.6% when playing alongside Zoe with these items in his kit.
To have the best chance of beating your oponents, you should use the Conqueror, Presence of Mind, Legend: Tenacity, Last Stand, Conditioning, and Overgrowth runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Of all the runes players chose for this team composition, this composite of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 47.6% win rate overall.
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