Volibear with Swain
How to Synergize Volibear and Swain
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Volibear Swain Synergy Summary
Best Volibear vs Swain Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Volibear and Swain
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.
Volibear Swain Synergy Stats
How to Play with Swain as Volibear in LoL
The Volibear 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, Volibear sees a large worsening in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Swain. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Swain helps Volibear perform not as well in competitive LoL matches. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Volibear is an ally to Swain, he sees a small decrease in his total damage dealt. This may indicate that Swain does not support by providing protection for him to deal more damage or that his participation also helps increase the game's duration. Similarly, when Volibear is played together with Swain on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays without Swain. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing synergisticly with Swain.
Moreover, when Volibear plays with Swain on the same team, he typically receives a little more damage than when he fights alone. Getting dealt more damage may indicate that Swain does a poor job of covering Volibear in teamfights.
Synergies between Volibear and Swain
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Is Volibear better when played alongside Swain?
There is no top ally for Volibear that will always be his best ally. However, Swain is a fantastic companion for Volibear. By playing on the same team as Volibear, he improves their win rate by 3.0% to 51.0%. This clearly indicates that there is a very real bond between Volibear and Swain that results in them performing at the top of their game together than without each other.
Swain has a much greater difficulty compared to Volibear. That means you must be very careful when lining up Swain comrades to fight alongside, as they will require a much higher level of skill to be able to do well with you.
Working together, you will likely see an overall large increase in your team’s capability to deal magic damage. Combined, these champs can blast through enemies with magic damage.
Although, by pairing Volibear and Swain together, you may not be providing your other allies a lot of utility. Plan to have other champs on your team that nullifies this disparity in their capabilities.
Regardless of your Swain ally's skill level, you need to focus on increasing your gold income, warding to avoid ambushes, and clearing objectives. If you do this, you should do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to truly master Volibear in order to work well with Swain during both the lane and mid / late game phases of LoL matches, you should continue reading to pick up additional tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and suggestions shown above, you will grow your win rate significantly.
The most important items to prioritize in your Volibear and Swain synergy build consist of Rabadon's Deathcap, Nashor's Tooth, and Riftmaker. When Volibear bought at least these three items in his build, he performed significantly better when paired up with Swain than with most other commonly used builds. In fact, Volibear had an average winrate of 51.0% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Swain with these items in his kit.
To have the highest probability of vanquishing your oponents, Volibear players should use the Lethal Tempo, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Last Stand, Demolish, and Revitalize runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Of all the rune builds players picked for this champion pairing, this mix of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 51.0% winrate overall.
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