Annie with Swain
How to Synergize Annie and Swain
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Annie Swain Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Annie and Swain
Tips for Playing as Annie with Swain
Molten Shield is a good spell to cast to work up to Annie's stun, so sometimes it's beneficial to grab at least 1 rank in it early.
Striking killing blows on minions with Disintegrate enables Annie to farm extremely well early in the game.
Storing a stun for use with her ultimate can turn the tide of a team fight.
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.
Annie Swain Synergy Stats
How to Play with Swain as Annie in LoL
The Annie 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, Annie sees a very large drop in her KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Swain. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This decrease shows that Swain helps Annie perform poorer in competitive League games. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Annie is paired with Swain, she observes a little decrease in her total damage dealt. This may demonstrate that Swain does not support by providing cover for her to deal more damage or that his support also helps extend the game's duration. Similarly, when Annie is played together with Swain on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when she plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing synergisticly with Swain.
Additionally, when Annie plays with Swain on the same team, she on average receives a little more damage than when she plays alone. Getting dealt more damage could indicate that Swain does a poor job of covering Annie during team fights.
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Is Annie better when played alongside Swain?
There is no top companion for Annie that will always be her ideal synergy. Yet, Swain is a very typical teammate for Annie. By playing on the same side as Annie, he improves their win rate by 0.8% to 50.1%. This proves that there is not really a strong strategic relationship between Annie and Swain that allows them to perform at the top of their game together than alone.
Swain has a greater difficulty than Annie. That means you must be very careful when finding Swain teammates to go into battle on the same side as, as they will have to have a greater level of skill to fight well with you.
Playing cooperatively, Annie players should expect to witness an overall large increase in your team’s capability to deal magical damage. Together, these champions are able to dish out a surprising amount of magic type damage.
In contrast, by bringing Annie and Swain together, you may not be providing your side enough sustained damage output. We recommend you pick other champs on your team that neutralizes this gap in this pairing's kit.
Regardless of the skill of your Swain ally, you need to focus on maximizing your income, warding to avoid ambushes, and clearing objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you should do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Annie in order to synergize with Swain during both the early game and mid / late game phases of LoL rounds, you should keep reading to pick up additional tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and tips shown above, you will grow your win rate by a lot.
The most important finished items to get in your Annie and Swain synergy build consist of Rabadon's Deathcap, Shadowflame, and Stormsurge. When Annie combined at least these three items in her build, she did much better as an ally of Swain than with many other typical builds. In fact, Annie boasted an average win rate of 50.1% when playing alongside Swain with these items in her kit.
To have the highest probability of annihilating your oponents, Annie players should use the Electrocute, Cheap Shot, Eyeball Collection, Relentless Hunter, Absolute Focus, and Manaflow Band runes from the Domination and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the rune combinations players used for this champion pairing, this combo of runes resulted in the top win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 50.1% win rate overall.
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