Gangplank with Swain
How to Synergize Gangplank and Swain
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Gangplank Swain Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Gangplank and Swain
Tips for Playing as Gangplank with Swain
Try placing Cannon Barrage on the path of escape to cut off fleeing enemies.
Parrrley applies On Hit effects like Frozen Mallet or Black Cleaver.
Paying attention to low-health enemies on the map can land you a surprise kill with Cannon Barrage.
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.
Gangplank Swain Synergy Stats
How to Play with Swain as Gangplank in LoL
The Gangplank 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, Gangplank sees a very large drop in his 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 Gangplank perform not as well in ranked LoL games. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Gangplank plays on the same team as Swain, he sees a barely noticable drop in his complete damage output. This difference may demonstrate that Swain does not help cover for him to deal more damage or that his presence also helps extend the round's duration. Similarly, when Gangplank is played alongside Swain on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing synergisticly with Swain.
Additionally, when Gangplank plays with Swain on the same side, he usually takes a little less damage than when he plays alone. Getting dealt not as much damage may indicate that Swain does a decent job of protecting Gangplank in teamfights.
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Is Gangplank better when played alongside Swain?
There is no ideal ally for Gangplank that will always be his ideal synergy. Yet, Swain is a pretty good companion for Gangplank. By playing on the same team as Gangplank, he raises their win rate by 2.0% to 50.6%. This signals that there is a somewhat important bond between Gangplank and Swain that allows them to perform better together than without each other.
Swain has a lower difficulty than Gangplank. That means you don't need to be very careful when finding Swain teammates to play with, as they will have to have a relatively low level of skill to be able to fight well with you.
When playing together, Gangplank players should expect to witness an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to to do a lot of AP damage. When paired, these two can deal quite a lot of AP type damage.
Conversely, by grouping Gangplank and Swain together, you may not be granting your side very much support. We recommend you have other champions on your team that offsets this relative hole in their capabilities.
Regardless of your Swain ally's ability, you need to focus on maximizing your income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and taking down objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you should do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To learn all of the intricacies of Gangplank in order to pair well with Swain during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to gather additional tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and tips displayed above, you will increase your win rate by a lot.
The most crucial items to use in your Gangplank and Swain synergy build consist of Bloodthirster, Navori Quickblades, and The Collector. When Gangplank used at least these three items in his build, he performed significantly better as an ally of Swain than with many other commonly used item sets. In fact, Gangplank had an average winrate of 50.6% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Swain with these items in his kit.
To have the highest chance of crushing your oponents, you should use the First Strike, Magical Footwear, Future's Market, Cosmic Insight, Bone Plating, and Overgrowth runes from the Inspiration and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the runes that we analyzed for Gangplank and Swain pairings, this order of runes yielded the best win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 50.6% win rate overall.
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