Xin Zhao with Swain
How to Synergize Xin Zhao and Swain
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Xin Zhao Swain Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Xin Zhao and Swain
Tips for Playing as Xin Zhao with Swain
Try to position yourself so your ultimate's knockback is most effective.
Xin Zhao is a great initiator to combat. Lead the front to start a fight and use your ultimate to do the most damage possible.
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.
Xin Zhao Swain Synergy Stats
How to Play with Swain as Xin Zhao in LoL
The Xin Zhao 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, Xin Zhao sees a very large drop in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Swain. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Swain helps Xin Zhao perform worse in ranked LoL games. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Xin Zhao is paired with Swain, he sees a small decrease in his total damage output. This could signal that Swain does not provide cover for him to deal more damage or that his allyship also helps extend the match's duration. Similarly, when Xin Zhao is played with 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 Xin Zhao plays with Swain on the same team, he typically takes a little less damage than when he plays alone. Receiving not as much damage could mean that Swain does a decent job of protecting Xin Zhao during teamfights.
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Is Xin Zhao better when played alongside Swain?
There is no ideal synergy for Xin Zhao that will always be his top ally. Yet, Swain is a good teammate for Xin Zhao. By locking into the same team as Xin Zhao, he improves their win rate by 1.6% to 52.5%. This signals that there is a somewhat important synergy between Xin Zhao and Swain that allows them to perform stronger together than without each other.
Swain has a much greater difficulty compared to Xin Zhao. That means you must be careful when finding Swain allies to fight alongside, as they will require a much greater level of skill to cooperate well with you.
Working cooperatively, Xin Zhao players should see 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.
Conversely, by aligning Xin Zhao and Swain together, you probably will not be providing your other allies much utility. Make sure to pick other champions on your team that helps cover this relative hole in their capabilities.
Regardless of the ability of your Swain teammate, you should focus on maximizing your gold income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, 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 learn all of the intricacies of Xin Zhao in order to work well with Swain during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League rounds, you should continue reading to gather a few extra lessons on this champion pairing. If you use the build and suggestions displayed here, you will increase your win rate by a lot.
The ideal finished items to prioritize in your Xin Zhao and Swain synergy build include Sterak's Gage, Spear of Shojin, and Titanic Hydra. When Xin Zhao incorporated at least these three finished items in his build, he performed much better as an ally of Swain than with most other commonly used item sets. In fact, Xin Zhao had an average winrate of 52.5% when playing alongside Swain with these items in his kit.
To have the greatest chance of annihilating your oponents, Xin Zhao players should equip the Lethal Tempo, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Coup de Grace, Cosmic Insight, and Magical Footwear runes from the Precision and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the runes players used for Xin Zhao and Swain pairings, this mixture of runes yielded the best win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 52.5% win rate overall.
By default, tips, statistics, and builds on how to pair Swain with Xin Zhao are shown for all ranked divisions combined. If you want to scope the statistics and builds to a specific division, you should use the selection menu located earlier in the counter matchup guide.