Vladimir with Swain
How to Synergize Vladimir and Swain
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Vladimir Swain Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Vladimir and Swain
Tips for Playing as Vladimir with Swain
Transfusion instantly deals damage to the enemy before healing Vladimir, making it one of the best last hitting tools in the game.
Cast Hemoplague where it will afflict the most units.
Sanguine Pool pops incoming missiles, so it can be used to dodge disables.
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.
Vladimir Swain Synergy Stats
How to Play with Swain as Vladimir in LoL
The Vladimir 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, Vladimir sees a very large drop in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Swain. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Swain helps Vladimir perform poorer in competitive League of Legends rounds. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is only marginal.
When Vladimir tries to synergize with Swain, he gets a little drop in his complete damage output. This change could demonstrate that Swain does not help protection for him to dish out more damage or that his presence on the team also helps extend the match's duration. Similarly, when Vladimir is played with Swain on the same side, 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 Vladimir plays with Swain on the same team, he usually receives a little more damage than when he plays alone. Receiving more damage could mean that Swain does a poor job of protecting Vladimir in teamfights.
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Is Vladimir better when played alongside Swain?
There is no ideal ally for Vladimir that will no matter what be his top synergy. However, Swain is a very typical ally for Vladimir. By locking into the same team as Vladimir, he raises their win rate by 0.6% to 50.6%. This clearly indicates that there is only a small bond between Vladimir and Swain that results in them performing stronger together than without each other.
Swain has a greater difficulty than Vladimir. That means Vladimir players must be cautious when enlisting Swain allies to go into battle on the same side as, as they will need a greater level of skill to cooperate well with you.
When playing alongside, Vladimir players should expect to witness an overall large increase in your team’s ability to deal magic damage. Combined, these two are able to dish out a surprising amount of magic type damage.
In contrast, by grouping Vladimir and Swain together, you may not be granting your side much AD. Plan to include other champs on your team that offsets this gap in this pairing's capabilities.
Regardless of your Swain ally's skill level, you need to focus on maximizing your gold income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and clearing 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 Vladimir to pair well with Swain during both the lane and mid / late game phases of LoL matches, you should keep reading to learn a few extra tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you use the build and suggestions presented above, you will increase your win rate by a lot.
The most important items to have in your Vladimir and Swain synergy build include Zhonya's Hourglass, Riftmaker, and Liandry's Torment. When Vladimir used at least these three items in his build, he performed much better when paired up with Swain than with most other commonly used item sets. In fact, Vladimir boasted an average win rate of 50.6% helping carry Swain with these items in his kit.
To have the best likelihood of defeating your oponents, you should equip the Phase Rush, Nimbus Cloak, Transcendence, Gathering Storm, Magical Footwear, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Sorcery and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the runes we have analyed for this champion pairing, this order of runes yielded the best win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 50.6% win rate overall.
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