Varus with Swain
How to Synergize Varus and Swain
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Varus Swain Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Varus and Swain
Tips for Playing as Varus with Swain
Try to take advantage of Piercing Arrow's very long range to snipe at enemy champions before a fight or as they're trying to flee.
An early point in Blighted Quiver helps harass enemy champions and get killing blows on minions.
During short range fights it's sometimes best to fire Piercing Arrow quickly, rather than charging it to full power.
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.
Varus Swain Synergy Stats
How to Play with Swain as Varus in LoL
The Varus 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, Varus sees a large worsening in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Swain. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This decrease shows that Swain helps Varus perform poorer in competitive League games. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Varus plays on the same team as Swain, he sees a barely noticable drop in his total damage output. This could indicate that Swain does not help protection for him to deal more damage or that his presence also helps increase the game's duration. Similarly, when Varus is played with Swain on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing synergisticly with Swain.
Moreover, when Varus plays with Swain on the same side, he often takes a little more damage than when he fights alone. Getting dealt more damage may mean that Swain does a poor job of protecting Varus in teamfights.
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Is Varus better when played alongside Swain?
There is no top champion pairing for Varus that will 100% of the time be his #1 teammate. Yet, overall, Swain is a very typical ally for Varus. By playing on the same team as Varus, he increases their win rate by 0.5% to 48.9%. This demonstrates that there is only a small bond between Varus and Swain that allows them to perform at the top of their game together than without each other.
Swain has a much greater difficulty compared to Varus. That means Varus players need to be very careful when arranging Swain allies to play with, as they will require a much higher level of skill to work well with you.
Fighting alongside, Varus players should expect to see an overall large increase in your team’s ability to deal magical damage. Combined, these two can blast through enemies with magic damage.
Although, by aligning Varus and Swain together, you probably will not be granting your other teammates very much crowd control. Plan to bring other champions on your team that fills this relative gap in their capabilities.
Regardless of the ability of your Swain teammate, you should focus on increasing your income, outlasting your enemies, 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
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Varus to pair well with Swain during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends matches, you should keep reading to pick up some more lessons on this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and suggestions presented above, you should increase your win rate significantly.
The ideal finished items to build first in your Varus and Swain synergy build include Guinsoo's Rageblade, Blade of The Ruined King, and Jak'Sho, The Protean. When Varus bought at least these three items in his build, he performed significantly better when fighting alongside Swain than with most other typical builds. In fact, Varus had an average win rate of 48.9% helping carry Swain with this build.
To have the highest likelihood of defeating your oponents, Varus players should equip the Lethal Tempo, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Coup de Grace, Taste of Blood, and Treasure Hunter runes from the Precision and Domination rune sets. Out of all the rune sets players chose for Varus and Swain pairings, this blending of runes yielded the best win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 48.9% win rate overall.
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