Zed with Swain
How to Synergize Zed and Swain
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Zed Swain Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Zed and Swain
Tips for Playing as Zed with Swain
Placing a Living Shadow before using Death Mark can give Zed a safe escape from combat.
Saving energy and spell cooldowns until you use your ultimate will maximize Death Mark's damage.
Quickly double tapping Living Shadow will teleport Zed to his shadow immediately for rapid escapes.
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.
Zed Swain Synergy Stats
How to Play with Swain as Zed in LoL
The Zed 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, Zed 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 negative change shows that Swain helps Zed perform poorer in ranked League matches. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is only marginal.
When Zed tries to synergize with Swain, he sees a little decrease in his full damage output. This change may signal that Swain does not provide protection for him to dish out more damage or that his allyship also helps increase the game's duration. Similarly, when Zed 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 Zed plays with Swain on the same side, he often receives a little more damage than when he plays alone. Receiving more damage may indicate that Swain does a poor job of covering Zed during teamfights.
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Is Zed better when played alongside Swain?
There is no top companion for Zed that will always be his top ally. Yet, overall, Swain is a decent companion for Zed. By being on the same side as Zed, he raises their win rate by 1.8% to 50.2%. This shows that there is a potentially meaningful synergy between Zed and Swain that results in them performing stronger together than alone.
Swain has a greater difficulty than Zed. That means Zed players must be cautious when enlisting Swain teammates to fight alongside, as they will have to have a greater level of skill to be able to work well with you.
When playing cooperatively, Zed players should expect to observe an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to destroy wih physical damage. Together, these champions should be able to take down targets with auto-attacks and other AD damage abilities.
Conversely, by bringing Zed and Swain together, you may not be granting your team much support. Plan to include other champs on your team that fills this relative disparity in their abilities.
Regardless of the skill of your Swain ally, you should focus on increasing your income, outlasting your enemies, and taking down objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you will 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 Zed to work well with Swain during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League games, you should keep reading to learn a few extra tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you use the build and stats shown above, you should increase your win rate significantly.
The most important items to focus on in your Zed and Swain synergy build consist of Axiom Arc, Profane Hydra, and Voltaic Cyclosword. When Zed combined at least these three items in his build, he performed significantly better when paired up with Swain than with many other commonly used builds. In fact, Zed boasted an average winrate of 50.2% when playing alongside Swain with these items in his kit.
To have the greatest likelihood of vanquishing your oponents, you should equip the Electrocute, Taste of Blood, Eyeball Collection, Ultimate Hunter, Transcendence, and Scorch runes from the Domination and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the rune builds we have analyed for this team composition, this composite of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 50.2% winrate overall.
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