Sylas with Swain
How to Synergize Sylas and Swain
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Sylas Swain Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Sylas and Swain
Tips for Playing as Sylas with Swain
Clever use of enemy ultimates can open up new possibilities to approach teamfights.
Wait for you or your enemy to reach low health before using Kingslayer for maximum effect.
Space out your ability usage to get maximum effect from Petricite Burst.
Advice to Understand How Swain Will Play
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.
Sylas Swain Synergy Stats
How to Play with Swain as Sylas in LoL
The Sylas Swain synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Swain, compared to his overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how his gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Sylas sees a very large drop in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Swain. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Swain helps Sylas perform poorer in ranked League rounds. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Sylas tries to synergize with Swain, he gets a little decrease in his full damage output. This could signal that Swain does not provide protection for him to dish out more damage or that his presence also helps extend the match's duration. Similarly, when Sylas is played together with Swain 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 Swain.
Moreover, when Sylas plays with Swain on the same side, he on average takes a little more damage than when he fights alone. Getting dealt more damage could mean that Swain does a poor job of covering Sylas in teamfights.
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Is Sylas better when played alongside Swain?
There is no perfect champion pairing for Sylas that will always be his top teammate. However, overall, Swain is a very typical ally for Sylas. By locking into the same team as Sylas, he drops their win rate by -0.2% to 48.8%. This shows that there is a weak strategic relationship between Sylas and Swain that results in them performing not as well together than without each other.
Swain has a greater difficulty than Sylas. That means Sylas players should be careful when enlisting Swain teammates to play with, as they will have to have a greater level of skill to be able to cooperate well with you.
Playing together, Sylas players should witness an overall large increase in your team’s ability to to do a lot of AP damage. When paired, these two can blast through enemies with magic damage.
Conversely, by bringing Sylas and Swain together, you probably will not be giving your other teammates much anti-tank damage dealing potential. We recommend you pick other champs on your team that neutralizes this relative gap in their kit.
Regardless of the skill of your Swain teammate, you should focus on maximizing your income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, 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 Sylas in order to work well with Swain during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends games, you should continue reading to master some more tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and tips presented above, you should increase your win rate significantly.
The best items to prioritize in your Sylas and Swain synergy build consist of Rabadon's Deathcap, Zhonya's Hourglass, and Shadowflame. When Sylas bought at least these three items in his build, he performed significantly better as an ally of Swain than with many other typical item sets. In fact, Sylas boasted an average winrate of 48.8% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Swain with these items in his kit.
To have the best chance of coming out on top against your oponents, you should equip the Electrocute, Sudden Impact, Eyeball Collection, Relentless Hunter, Transcendence, and Scorch runes from the Domination and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the runes players picked for Sylas and Swain pairings, this sequence of runes resulted in the best win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 48.8% winrate overall.
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