Akali with Swain
How to Synergize Akali and Swain
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Akali Swain Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Akali and Swain
Tips for Playing as Akali with Swain
Akali excels at killing fragile champions. Let your team initiate and then strike at the people in the back.
Twilight Shroud offers safety in even the most dangerous situations. Use that time to save up energy for a quick strike later.
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.
Akali Swain Synergy Stats
How to Play with Swain as Akali in LoL
The Akali Swain synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of her gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Swain, compared to her overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how her gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Akali sees a large worsening in her KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Swain. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This decrease shows that Swain helps Akali perform not as well in competitive League games. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Akali plays on the same team as Swain, she sees a little decrease in her total damage dealt. This change may demonstrate that Swain doesn't help protection for her to dish out more damage or that his presence on the team also helps extend the match's duration. Similarly, when Akali is played together with Swain on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when she plays without Swain. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing alongside Swain.
Moreover, when Akali plays with Swain on the same team, she often receives a little more damage than when she fights alone. Receiving more damage could mean that Swain does a poor job of covering Akali during team fights.
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Is Akali better when played alongside Swain?
There is no perfect champion pairing for Akali that will 100% of the time be her #1 ally. However, overall, Swain is a very typical companion for Akali. By locking into the same team as Akali, he increases their win rate by 0.9% to 50.0%. This demonstrates that there is only a small strategic relationship between Akali and Swain that results in them performing better together than alone.
Swain has a greater difficulty than Akali. That means you must be careful when enlisting Swain allies to go into battle on the same side as, as they will need a greater level of skill to be able to play well with you.
When playing together, Akali players should observe an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to deal magic damage. When paired, these two can deal quite a lot of AP type damage.
In contrast, by bringing Akali and Swain together, you probably will not be giving your side very much crowd control. Make sure to bring other champs on your team that nullifies this gap in this pairing's potential.
Regardless of your Swain ally's ability, you should focus on maximizing your gold income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and taking down objectives. If you do this, you will do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To learn all of the intricacies of Akali in order to synergize with Swain during both the lane and mid / late game phases of LoL, you should continue reading to master a few extra tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you mind the build and stats displayed above, you will grow your win rate by a lot.
The top finished items to prioritize in your Akali and Swain synergy build consist of Rabadon's Deathcap, Lich Bane, and Stormsurge. When Akali combined at least these three items in her build, she performed much better when paired up with Swain than with most other common item sets. In fact, Akali boasted an average win rate of 50.0% when synergizing her build and playstyle to Swain with these items in her kit.
To have the highest likelihood of vanquishing your oponents, you should use the Fleet Footwork, Presence of Mind, Legend: Tenacity, Coup de Grace, Overgrowth, and Second Wind runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the rune builds players picked for this team composition, this set of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 50.0% win rate overall.
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