Ziggs with Swain
How to Synergize Ziggs and Swain
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Ziggs Swain Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Ziggs and Swain
Tips for Playing as Ziggs with Swain
Even if you're far from a fight you can still help from afar with Mega Inferno Bomb.
Slowing your enemies with Hexplosive Minefield makes it easier to land other abilities.
Knocking yourself over walls with Satchel Charge can be great when chasing after or escaping from enemies.
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.
Ziggs Swain Synergy Stats
How to Play with Swain as Ziggs in LoL
The Ziggs 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, Ziggs sees a very large drop in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Swain. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This fall shows that Swain helps Ziggs perform poorer in ranked LoL games. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Ziggs is paired with Swain, he sees a little drop in his full damage dealt. This may signal that Swain doesn't help protection for him to deal more damage or that his support also helps extend the round's duration. Similarly, when Ziggs is played with Swain on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing with Swain.
Additionally, when Ziggs plays with Swain on the same team, he often receives a little more damage than when he plays alone. Taking more damage could indicate that Swain does a poor job of protecting Ziggs in team fights.
Synergies between Ziggs and Swain
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Is Ziggs better when played alongside Swain?
There is no ideal champion pairing for Ziggs that will always be his ideal ally. However, Swain is a very typical companion for Ziggs. By playing on the same side as Ziggs, he decreases their win rate by -0.1% to 48.0%. This shows that there is not really a strong bond between Ziggs and Swain that allows them to perform worse together than alone.
Swain has a much greater difficulty compared to Ziggs. That means Ziggs players need to be very careful when lining up Swain teammates to fight alongside, as they will have to have a much higher level of skill to do well with you.
Working alongside, Ziggs players will likely observe an overall large increase in your team’s ability to deal magical damage. Together, these champs can deal quite a lot of AP type damage.
Although, by grouping Ziggs and Swain together, you probably will not be giving your other teammates a lot of attack damage. Plan to include other champs on your team that nullifies this disparity in this pairing's playstyle.
Regardless of your Swain ally's ability, you need to focus on increasing your gold income, warding to avoid ambushes, and taking down objectives. If you heed this simple advice, 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 Ziggs in order to synergize with Swain during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League rounds, you should continue reading to master a few extra tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and suggestions displayed here, you will grow your win rate significantly.
The ideal items to focus on in your Ziggs and Swain synergy build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Liandry's Torment, and Luden's Companion. When Ziggs included at least these three great items in his build, he did a lot better when paired up with Swain than with many other common item sets. In fact, Ziggs had an average winrate of 48.0% when playing alongside Swain with this build.
To have the greatest probability of vanquishing your oponents, Ziggs players should equip the Arcane Comet, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Scorch, Biscuit Delivery, and Magical Footwear runes from the Sorcery and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the runes players chose for this team composition, this set of runes yielded the highest win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 48.0% winrate overall.
By default, tips, statistics, and builds on how to pair Swain with Ziggs are displayed for all skill levels, merged. If you want to narrow the stats and builds to an individual player tier, you should use the selection menu located earlier in the counter matchup guide.