Viktor with Swain
How to Synergize Viktor and Swain
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Viktor Swain Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Viktor and Swain
Tips for Playing as Viktor with Swain
Make sure you choose the right augment at the right time.
Death Ray is a powerful poke and a strong area of denial tool. Use it in combination with Gravity Field to control your enemy's position.
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.
Viktor Swain Synergy Stats
How to Play with Swain as Viktor in LoL
The Viktor 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, Viktor 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 negative change shows that Swain helps Viktor perform poorer in competitive League rounds. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Viktor is paired with Swain, he observes a little drop in his total damage dealt. This may demonstrate that Swain does not support by providing cover for him to deal more damage or that his support also helps increase the match's duration. Similarly, when Viktor is played alongside 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.
Additionally, when Viktor plays with Swain on the same team, he typically receives a little less damage than when he fights alone. Getting dealt not as much damage may mean that Swain does a decent job of protecting Viktor during teamfights.
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Is Viktor better when played alongside Swain?
There is no universally accepted best champion pairing for Viktor that will always be his ideal synergy. Yet, Swain is a very typical companion for Viktor. By playing on the same team as Viktor, he improves their win rate by 0.4% to 50.6%. This signals that there is a weak bond between Viktor and Swain that allows them to perform stronger together than without each other.
Swain has a lower difficulty than Viktor. That means you don't need to be cautious when finding Swain comrades to go into battle on the same side as, as they will have to have a lower level of skill to be able to fight well with you.
Playing alongside, you will likely observe an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to deal magic damage. Combined, these two can deal quite a lot of AP type damage.
Although, by grouping Viktor and Swain together, you may not be granting your other teammates enough sustained damage output. Plan to include other champions on your team that neutralizes this relative gap in this pairing's capabilities.
Regardless of the skill of your Swain ally, you should focus on maximizing your income, warding to avoid ambushes, and taking down objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you should do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To truly master Viktor to synergize with Swain during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends matches, you should keep reading to master a few extra lessons on this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and tips presented here, you should grow your win rate by a lot.
The most crucial finished items to have in your Viktor and Swain synergy build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Zhonya's Hourglass, and Luden's Companion. When Viktor included at least these three items in his build, he did much better when paired up with Swain than with most other typical builds. In fact, Viktor had an average win rate of 50.6% helping carry Swain with this build.
To have the greatest probability of beating your oponents, Viktor 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 runes players picked for this team composition, this mixture of runes yielded the top win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 50.6% win rate overall.
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