Lead your enemy when targeting with Noxious Blast to ensure the hit.
Use Twin Fang on poisoned stationary targets like monsters and units stunned by her Petrifying Gaze for maximum damage.
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.
The Cassiopeia 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, Cassiopeia sees a large worsening in her KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Swain. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This negative change shows that Swain helps Cassiopeia perform worse in ranked League rounds. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is only marginal.
When Cassiopeia is paired with Swain, she gets a little drop in her total damage output. This change may demonstrate that Swain doesn't help protection for her to dish out more damage or that his presence also helps increase the game's duration. Similarly, when Cassiopeia is played alongside Swain on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when she plays without Swain. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing with Swain.
Additionally, when Cassiopeia plays with Swain on the same team, she on average takes a little less damage than when she fights alone. Taking not as much damage may indicate that Swain does a decent job of protecting Cassiopeia during teamfights.
There is no one best ally for Cassiopeia that will no matter what be her #1 synergy. Yet, Swain is a very typical companion for Cassiopeia. By locking into the same side as Cassiopeia, he increases their win rate by 0.2% to 50.5%. This signals that there is not really a strong bond between Cassiopeia and Swain that allows them to perform better together than alone.
Swain has a lower difficulty than Cassiopeia. That means Cassiopeia players don't need to be cautious when arranging Swain teammates to go into battle on the same side as, as they will have to have a lower level of skill to play well with you.
When playing together, Cassiopeia players will likely observe an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to deal magic damage. Combined, these champs can blast through enemies with magic damage.
In contrast, by aligning Cassiopeia and Swain together, you probably will not be giving your other allies a great deal of anti-tank damage dealing potential. We recommend you pick other champs on your team that offsets this disparity in this pairing's capabilities.
Regardless of the ability of your Swain teammate, you need to focus on maximizing your gold income, warding to avoid ambushes, and taking down objectives. If you do this, you should do well anyway.
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Cassiopeia to pair well with Swain during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League rounds, you should continue reading to learn additional tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and tips displayed here, you will increase your win rate by a lot.
The most important items to have in your Cassiopeia and Swain synergy build include Seraph's Embrace, Rylai's Crystal Scepter, and Cosmic Drive. When Cassiopeia used at least these three great items in her build, she performed significantly better as an ally of Swain than with many other common builds. In fact, Cassiopeia had an average winrate of 50.5% when synergizing her build and playstyle to Swain with these items in her kit.
To have the greatest probability of annihilating your oponents, Cassiopeia players should use the Conqueror, Presence of Mind, Legend: Tenacity, Last Stand, Manaflow Band, and Transcendence runes from the Precision and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the runes players chose for this team composition, this order of runes yielded the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 50.5% winrate overall.
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