Veigar with Swain
How to Synergize Veigar and Swain
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Veigar Swain Synergy Summary
Best Veigar vs Swain Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Veigar and Swain
Tips for Playing as Veigar with Swain
Veigar is extremely Mana and Cooldown Reduction dependent. Try buying items with these stats in order to increase the effectiveness of your passive and Baleful Strike.
Veigar is very fragile. It is valuable to select at least one summoner spell that can be used defensively.
Use Event Horizon to increase your chances of landing Dark Matter.
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.
Veigar Swain Synergy Stats
How to Play with Swain as Veigar in LoL
The Veigar 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, Veigar sees a large worsening in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Swain. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This fall shows that Swain helps Veigar perform worse in competitive League of Legends rounds. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Veigar is an ally to Swain, he observes a barely noticable drop in his total damage output. This could demonstrate that Swain does not provide protection for him to deal more damage or that his participation also helps increase the game's duration. Similarly, when Veigar is played with Swain on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays without Swain. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing alongside Swain.
Moreover, when Veigar plays with Swain on the same side, he typically receives a little less damage than when he fights alone. Getting dealt not as much damage could mean that Swain does a decent job of covering Veigar in team fights.
Synergies between Veigar and Swain
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Is Veigar better when played alongside Swain?
There is no ideal synergy for Veigar that will 100% of the time be his best synergy. However, overall, Swain is a good ally for Veigar. By being on the same side as Veigar, he raises their win rate by 2.1% to 51.4%. This demonstrates that there is a good synergy between Veigar and Swain that allows them to perform stronger together than alone.
Swain has a greater difficulty than Veigar. That means you must be cautious when lining up Swain teammates to go into battle on the same side as, as they will need a greater level of skill to be able to do well with you.
When playing alongside, you should expect to witness an overall large increase in your team’s ability to to do a lot of AP damage. Together, these two are able to dish out a surprising amount of magic type damage.
Although, by grouping Veigar and Swain together, you probably will not be giving your other allies very much attack damage. We recommend you include other champs on your team that fills this relative hole in their abilities.
Regardless of your Swain ally's skill level, you need to focus on maximizing your income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and taking down objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you will do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to truly master Veigar to pair well with Swain during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League matches, you should keep reading to learn a few extra tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you use the build and suggestions shown above, you should grow your win rate significantly.
The most important items to build first in your Veigar and Swain synergy build consist of Rabadon's Deathcap, Shadowflame, and Stormsurge. When Veigar incorporated at least these three finished items in his build, he did significantly better as an ally of Swain than with most other common item sets. In fact, Veigar boasted an average winrate of 51.4% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Swain with this build.
To have the highest likelihood of defeating your oponents, Veigar players should take the First Strike, Magical Footwear, Biscuit Delivery, Cosmic Insight, Manaflow Band, and Transcendence runes from the Inspiration and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the rune builds players used for Veigar and Swain pairings, this sequence of runes yielded the highest win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 51.4% winrate overall.
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