Zac with Swain
How to Synergize Zac and Swain
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Zac Swain Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Zac and Swain
Tips for Playing as Zac with Swain
Picking up goo chunks is very important to staying alive.
When Cell Division is ready, try to die in a position that makes it difficult for the enemy team to kill your bloblets.
Charging Elastic Slingshot from the fog of war will give opponents less time to react.
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.
Zac Swain Synergy Stats
How to Play with Swain as Zac in LoL
The Zac 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, Zac sees a large worsening in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Swain. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Swain helps Zac perform not as well in competitive League of Legends rounds. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Zac tries to synergize with Swain, he observes a barely noticable drop in his full damage dealt. This difference could signal that Swain does not support by providing protection for him to dish out more damage or that his presence also helps extend the game's duration. Similarly, when Zac is played with Swain on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays without Swain. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing synergisticly with Swain.
Moreover, when Zac plays with Swain on the same team, he often receives a little more damage than when he plays alone. Receiving more damage could indicate that Swain does a poor job of protecting Zac during teamfights.
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Is Zac better when played alongside Swain?
There is no ideal ally for Zac that will 100% of the time be his top ally. However, overall, Swain is a very typical companion for Zac. By locking into the same side as Zac, he has no effect on their win rate by 0.0% to 51.8%. This signals that there is only a small synergy between Zac and Swain that results in them performing at the same level together than alone.
Swain has a lower difficulty than Zac. That means Zac players don't need to be cautious when lining up Swain comrades to go into battle on the same side as, as they will have to have a lower level of skill to do well with you.
When playing alongside, Zac players should witness an overall large increase in your team’s ability to to do a lot of AP damage. Together, these champions can deal quite a lot of AP type damage.
In contrast, by aligning Zac and Swain together, you may not be giving your other teammates much sustained damage output. Plan to have other champions on your team that neutralizes this gap in this pairing's playstyle.
Regardless of the ability of your Swain teammate, 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 truly master Zac to synergize with Swain during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League games, you should continue reading to pick up some more tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and tips shown above, you will grow your win rate significantly.
The most crucial items to focus on in your Zac and Swain synergy build include Spirit Visage, Sunfire Aegis, and Randuin's Omen. When Zac incorporated at least these three great items in his build, he did a lot better when fighting alongside Swain than with most other common item sets. In fact, Zac had an average win rate of 51.8% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Swain with these items in his kit.
To have the highest chance of coming out on top against your oponents, you should take the Aftershock, Font of Life, Conditioning, Revitalize, Cosmic Insight, and Magical Footwear runes from the Resolve and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the rune combinations that we analyzed for this team composition, this mixture of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 51.8% win rate overall.
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