Brand with Swain
How to Synergize Brand and Swain
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Brand Swain Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Brand and Swain
Tips for Playing as Brand with Swain
You can use Brand's abilities in a variety of combinations to maximize his damage in different situations.
You can deter enemies from standing near their minions by setting them ablaze, due to Conflagration.
Pyroclasm bounces randomly between enemies, so try to cast it on a small group of enemies if you want to hit the same target multiple times.
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.
Brand Swain Synergy Stats
How to Play with Swain as Brand in LoL
The Brand 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, Brand sees a very large drop in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Swain. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Swain helps Brand perform worse in ranked League of Legends matches. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is only marginal.
When Brand plays on the same team as Swain, he sees a little drop in his complete damage output. This change could signal that Swain does not provide protection for him to dish out more damage or that his presence also helps extend the round's duration. Similarly, when Brand is played with Swain on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing synergisticly with Swain.
Moreover, when Brand plays with Swain on the same side, he often receives a little more damage than when he fights alone. Getting dealt more damage could mean that Swain does a poor job of protecting Brand during team fights.
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Is Brand better when played alongside Swain?
There is no top companion for Brand that will 100% of the time be his top ally. However, Swain is a pretty good ally for Brand. By playing on the same side as Brand, he increases their win rate by 1.1% to 52.5%. This clearly indicates that there is a somewhat important strategic relationship between Brand and Swain that results in them performing stronger together than without each other.
Swain has a much greater difficulty compared to Brand. That means you should be careful when finding Swain comrades to go into battle on the same side as, as they will have to have a much greater level of skill to be able to fight well with you.
Working together, Brand players should observe an overall large increase in your team’s capability to deal magic damage. Together, these champs can blast through enemies with magic damage.
In contrast, by grouping Brand and Swain together, you will not be giving your other allies much anti-tank damage dealing potential. We recommend you have other champions on your team that nullifies this relative hole in their capabilities.
Regardless of the skill of your Swain ally, you need to focus on increasing 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
To learn all of the intricacies of Brand to pair well with Swain during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends games, you should keep reading to learn a few extra lessons on this champion pairing. If you mind the build and suggestions presented here, you will grow your win rate by a lot.
The ideal items to get in your Brand and Swain synergy build consist of Malignance, Cryptbloom, and Liandry's Torment. When Brand bought at least these three finished items in his build, he did a lot better when fighting alongside Swain than with most other commonly used builds. In fact, Brand boasted an average win rate of 52.5% helping carry Swain with these items in his kit.
To have the highest probability of vanquishing your oponents, Brand players should equip the Dark Harvest, Taste of Blood, Eyeball Collection, Treasure Hunter, Manaflow Band, and Scorch runes from the Domination and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the rune builds players chose for this champion pairing, this combo of runes yielded the top win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 52.5% win rate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to team up Swain with Brand are given for all ranked divisions combined. If you would like to filter the statistics and builds to a particular skill level, you may use the selection menu earlier on the page.