Yorick with Swain
How to Synergize Yorick and Swain
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Yorick Swain Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Yorick and Swain
Tips for Playing as Yorick with Swain
You do not need to cast Awakening to regain the ability to cast Last Rites.
You can send the Maiden down a lane alone, be careful though, as she represents a large portion of your combat power.
The Maiden will attempt to assist you in a fight, so choose your targets well.
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.
Yorick Swain Synergy Stats
How to Play with Swain as Yorick in LoL
The Yorick 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, Yorick 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 drop shows that Swain helps Yorick perform poorer in ranked League games. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is only marginal.
When Yorick tries to synergize with Swain, he observes a little drop in his complete damage output. This could demonstrate that Swain does not provide protection for him to dish out more damage or that his support also helps extend the game's duration. Similarly, when Yorick is played together with Swain on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing synergisticly with Swain.
Moreover, when Yorick plays with Swain on the same team, he often takes a little less damage than when he plays alone. Receiving not as much damage may mean that Swain does a decent job of protecting Yorick during team fights.
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Is Yorick better when played alongside Swain?
There is no top ally for Yorick that will always be his #1 ally. Yet, overall, Swain is a good teammate for Yorick. By locking into the same side as Yorick, he improves their win rate by 2.5% to 52.8%. This demonstrates that there is pretty good strategic relationship between Yorick and Swain that allows them to perform stronger together than alone.
Swain has a greater difficulty than Yorick. That means you should be very careful when finding Swain teammates to play with, as they will need a greater level of skill to play well with you.
When playing on the same side, Yorick players should see an overall large increase in your team’s ability to deal magical damage. Together, these champions can blast through enemies with magic damage.
Conversely, by bringing Yorick and Swain together, you will not be giving your team much crowd control. Make sure to pick other champions on your team that helps cover this gap in this pairing's abilities.
Regardless of the skill of your Swain ally, you need to focus on increasing your gold income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and clearing objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you should 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 Yorick in order to pair well with Swain during both the lane and mid / late game phases of LoL games, you should continue reading to learn some more tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you mind the build and suggestions displayed above, you should increase your win rate by a lot.
The ideal finished items to use in your Yorick and Swain synergy build include Trinity Force, Hullbreaker, and Serylda's Grudge. When Yorick used at least these three finished items in his build, he did a lot better when paired up with Swain than with most other commonly used item sets. In fact, Yorick boasted an average winrate of 52.8% when playing alongside Swain with these items in his kit.
To have the greatest likelihood of coming out on top against your oponents, Yorick players should use the Grasp of the Undying, Demolish, Bone Plating, Overgrowth, Legend: Bloodline, and Presence of Mind runes from the Resolve and Precision rune sets. Of all the rune sets players used for Yorick and Swain pairings, this set of runes resulted in the best win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 52.8% win rate overall.
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