Warwick with Swain
How to Synergize Warwick and Swain
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Warwick Swain Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Warwick and Swain
Tips for Playing as Warwick with Swain
Infinite Duress (R)'s distance scales with any Move Speed you gain, even from ally buffs and summoner spells.
Follow your Blood Hunt trails to low health enemy champions.
Jaws of the Beast (Q) will follow enemies who run, dash or teleport if you keep the button held down.
Advice to Understand How Swain Will Play
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.
While laning, try to use Death's Hand's piercing damage to damage opponents from a safe distance.
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.
Warwick Swain Synergy Stats
How to Play with Swain as Warwick in LoL
The Warwick 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, Warwick sees a large worsening in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Swain. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Swain helps Warwick perform not as well in ranked League matches. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is only marginal.
When Warwick plays on the same team as Swain, he sees a small decrease in his full damage dealt. This could signal that Swain doesn't help protection for him to deal more damage or that his presence on the team also helps increase the round's duration. Similarly, when Warwick 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 alongside Swain.
Moreover, when Warwick plays with Swain on the same side, he often takes a little less damage than when he plays alone. Taking not as much damage could mean that Swain does a decent job of protecting Warwick in team fights.
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Is Warwick better when played alongside Swain?
There is no perfect ally for Warwick that will no matter what be his top synergy. Yet, overall, Swain is a great companion for Warwick. By locking into the same team as Warwick, he raises their win rate by 3.1% to 53.4%. This demonstrates that there is a very real bond between Warwick and Swain that allows them to perform stronger together than alone.
Swain has a much greater difficulty compared to Warwick. That means you need to be cautious when arranging Swain allies to play with, as they will require a much higher level of skill to be able to play well with you.
Working alongside, you should observe an overall large increase in your team’s capability to to do a lot of AP damage. Combined, these two are able to dish out a surprising amount of magic type damage.
In contrast, by pairing Warwick and Swain together, you probably will not be granting your other teammates a lot of support. We recommend you bring other champions on your team that helps cover this relative disparity in their playstyle.
Regardless of your Swain ally's skill level, you need to focus on maximizing your gold income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and taking down objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you will do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Warwick to synergize with Swain during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League matches, you should keep reading to master a few extra lessons on this champion pairing. If you mind the build and suggestions presented above, you will grow your win rate significantly.
The most important finished items to build first in your Warwick and Swain synergy build consist of Jak'Sho, The Protean, Blade of The Ruined King, and Titanic Hydra. When Warwick incorporated at least these three items in his build, he performed much better when fighting alongside Swain than with many other common item sets. In fact, Warwick had an average winrate of 53.4% helping carry Swain with this build.
To have the highest chance of crushing your oponents, Warwick players should take the Press the Attack, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Last Stand, Celerity, and Waterwalking runes from the Precision and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the rune sets players chose for this team composition, this composite of runes resulted in the best win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 53.4% winrate overall.
By default, tips, statistics, and builds on how to team up Swain with Warwick are presented for all skill levels combined. If you would like to narrow the statistics and builds to an individual rank, you may use the selection menu earlier on the page.