Fiddlesticks with Swain
How to Synergize Fiddlesticks and Swain
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Fiddlesticks Swain Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Fiddlesticks and Swain
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.
Fiddlesticks Swain Synergy Stats
How to Play with Swain as Fiddlesticks in LoL
The Fiddlesticks 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, Fiddlesticks sees a large worsening in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Swain. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Swain helps Fiddlesticks perform not as well in competitive League of Legends rounds. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Fiddlesticks is paired with Swain, he sees a barely noticable drop in his complete damage dealt. This may demonstrate that Swain does not support by providing protection for him to deal more damage or that his support also helps increase the match's duration. Similarly, when Fiddlesticks is played together with Swain on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays without Swain. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing with Swain.
Moreover, when Fiddlesticks plays with Swain on the same team, he often takes a little more damage than when he fights alone. Receiving more damage could mean that Swain does a poor job of protecting Fiddlesticks during team fights.
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Is Fiddlesticks better when played alongside Swain?
There is no ideal champion pairing for Fiddlesticks that will no matter what be his top ally. Yet, Swain is a very typical ally for Fiddlesticks. By locking into the same team as Fiddlesticks, he decreases their win rate by -0.3% to 48.7%. This shows that there is a weak bond between Fiddlesticks and Swain that allows them to perform not as well together than alone.
Swain has a lower difficulty than Fiddlesticks. That means Fiddlesticks players don't need to be careful when arranging Swain allies to fight alongside, as they will need a relatively low level of skill to be able to do well with you.
Working together, you will likely see an overall large increase in your team’s capability to deal magic damage. Together, these champs are able to dish out a surprising amount of magic type damage.
Although, by pairing Fiddlesticks and Swain together, you will not be giving your other allies a great deal of AD. Plan to bring other champions on your team that nullifies this disparity in this pairing's capabilities.
Regardless of your Swain ally's skill level, you should focus on maximizing your income, outlasting your enemies, and taking down objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you will 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 Fiddlesticks to pair well with Swain during both the laning and mid / late game phases of LoL games, you should continue reading to master a few extra lessons on this champion pairing. If you use the build and stats displayed above, you should grow your win rate significantly.
The top items to use in your Fiddlesticks and Swain synergy build include Malignance, Hextech Rocketbelt, and Zhonya's Hourglass. When Fiddlesticks bought at least these three finished items in his build, he performed significantly better when fighting alongside Swain than with most other common item sets. In fact, Fiddlesticks boasted an average win rate of 48.7% when playing alongside Swain with this build.
To have the greatest likelihood of coming out on top against your oponents, you should equip the First Strike, Triple Tonic, Future's Market, Cosmic Insight, Cheap Shot, and Ultimate Hunter runes from the Inspiration and Domination rune sets. Of all the rune combinations players used for Fiddlesticks and Swain pairings, this combo of runes yielded the top win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 48.7% win rate overall.
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