Aatrox with Swain
How to Synergize Aatrox and Swain
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Aatrox Swain Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Aatrox and Swain
Tips for Playing as Aatrox with Swain
Cast World Ender when you are sure you can force a fight.
Use Umbral Dash while casting The Darkin Blade to increase your chances of hitting the enemy.
Crowd Control abilities like Infernal Chains or your allies' immobilizing effects will help you set up The Darkin Blade.
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.
Aatrox Swain Synergy Stats
How to Play with Swain as Aatrox in LoL
The Aatrox 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, Aatrox sees a very large drop in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Swain. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This negative change shows that Swain helps Aatrox perform poorer in ranked League of Legends matches. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Aatrox plays on the same team as Swain, he sees a small decrease in his full damage dealt. This change could indicate that Swain does not support by providing cover for him to deal more damage or that his presence also helps extend the match's duration. Similarly, when Aatrox is played alongside Swain on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing with Swain.
Moreover, when Aatrox plays with Swain on the same team, he typically receives a little less damage than when he plays alone. Getting dealt not as much damage could mean that Swain does a decent job of protecting Aatrox in teamfights.
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Is Aatrox better when played alongside Swain?
There is no ideal companion for Aatrox that will 100% of the time be his ideal synergy. Yet, Swain is a pretty good ally for Aatrox. By being on the same team as Aatrox, he raises their win rate by 1.8% to 52.2%. This signals that there is a good strategic relationship between Aatrox and Swain that allows them to perform at the top of their game together than alone.
Swain has a much greater difficulty compared to Aatrox. That means Aatrox players should be careful when lining up Swain comrades to go into battle on the same side as, as they will have to have a much greater level of skill to play well with you.
Playing alongside, Aatrox players will likely see an overall large increase in your team’s capability to deal magical damage. Combined, these champs can deal quite a lot of AP type damage.
In contrast, by bringing Aatrox and Swain together, you may not be giving your side a lot of support. We recommend you include other champs on your team that nullifies this gap in their playstyle.
Regardless of your Swain ally's skill level, you should focus on maximizing your income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and clearing objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you should do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to truly master Aatrox to work well with Swain during both the early game and mid / late game phases of LoL, you should keep reading to learn some more lessons on this champion pairing. If you mind the build and stats displayed above, you will increase your win rate significantly.
The most important items to build first in your Aatrox and Swain synergy build include Sterak's Gage, Sundered Sky, and Jak'Sho, The Protean. When Aatrox incorporated at least these three great items in his build, he performed a lot better as an ally of Swain than with many other commonly used item sets. In fact, Aatrox had an average winrate of 52.2% helping carry Swain with this build.
To have the best probability of coming out on top against your oponents, Aatrox players should equip the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Tenacity, Last Stand, Revitalize, and Bone Plating runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Of all the rune combinations players chose for this team composition, this blending of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 52.2% winrate overall.
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