Durante la fase de calles, intenta utilizar La mano de la muerte para infligir daño desde una distancia segura.
Visión del imperio es difícil de acertar de por sí. Intenta lanzarla donde haya un combate en el mapa con el que los enemigos estén distraídos o bajo los efectos de control de adversario para que sea más fácil acertarla.
Si te cuesta inmovilizar a un enemigo con Paralizar, intenta lanzarla cuando esté cerca de sus súbditos para que la explosión lo coja por sorpresa.
Ascensión demoníaca hace que sea más difícil acabar con Swain pero es bastante fácil escapar de él. Intenta comprar objetos que ralenticen para poder atacar desde lejos si el rival cuenta con mucha movilidad.
Sembrar la destrucción es muy útil para matar súbditos reiteradamente y hostigar a los campeones enemigos.
Pídeles a tus aliados que te avisen cuándo usar Réquiem para poder matar en distintas calles.
The Swain Karthus synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Karthus, compared to his overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how his gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Swain sees a very large drop in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Karthus. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Karthus helps Swain perform poorer in ranked League rounds. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Swain is paired with Karthus, he observes a little decrease in his total damage dealt. This change could demonstrate that Karthus does not support by providing cover for him to dish out more damage or that his presence also helps increase the game's duration. Similarly, when Swain is played alongside Karthus on the same team, 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 Karthus.
Moreover, when Swain plays with Karthus on the same side, he typically receives more damage than when he fights alone. Taking more damage could mean that Karthus does a poor job of protecting Swain in team fights.
There is no perfect ally for Swain that will no matter what be his ideal ally. Yet, Karthus is a terrible teammate for Swain. By playing on the same side as Swain, he decreases their win rate by -4.7% to 46.6%. This signals that there is an easy to overcome and exploit synergy between Swain and Karthus that allows them to perform worse together than without each other.
Karthus has a lower difficulty than Swain. That means Swain players don't need to be careful when finding Karthus comrades to fight alongside, as they will require a relatively low level of skill to be able to cooperate well with you.
Fighting together, Swain players will likely observe an overall large increase in your team’s capability to deal magical damage. Combined, these champions are able to dish out a surprising amount of magic type damage.
In contrast, by aligning Swain and Karthus together, you may not be providing your team very much sustained damage output. Plan to bring other champs on your team that nullifies this hole in this pairing's potential.
Regardless of your Karthus ally's ability, 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.
To learn all of the intricacies of Swain in order to synergize with Karthus during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League games, you should keep reading to gather additional tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and tips presented here, you will increase your win rate significantly.
The best items to prioritize in your Swain and Karthus synergy build include Cetro de cristal de Rylai, Malignidad, and Tormento de Liandry. When Swain bought at least these three great items in his build, he performed a lot better when paired up with Karthus than with most other commonly used item sets. In fact, Swain had an average winrate of 46.6% when playing alongside Karthus with this build.
To have the best likelihood of annihilating your oponents, Swain players should take the Conquistador, Claridad mental, Leyenda: Tenacidad, Último esfuerzo, Condicionamiento, and Sobrecrecimiento runes from the Precisión and Valor rune sets. Of all the rune builds players used for Swain and Karthus pairings, this order of runes yielded the top win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 46.6% win rate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to pair Karthus with Swain are given for all ranked divisions. If you want to scope the stats and builds to a specific player tier, you may use the selection menu located earlier in the counter matchup guide.