Graves with Swain
How to Synergize Graves and Swain
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Graves Swain Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Graves and Swain
Tips for Playing as Graves with Swain
Smoke Screen can be used both to escape and to set up a kill.
Using Quickdraw to get into range and delivering a point blank Buckshot can do lots of damage.
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.
Graves Swain Synergy Stats
How to Play with Swain as Graves in LoL
The Graves 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, Graves sees a large worsening in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Swain. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Swain helps Graves perform worse in competitive League of Legends games. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is only marginal.
When Graves tries to synergize with Swain, he gets a small decrease in his complete damage output. This change could demonstrate that Swain doesn't help cover for him to dish out more damage or that his support also helps increase the game's duration. Similarly, when Graves is played with Swain on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing with Swain.
Moreover, when Graves plays with Swain on the same side, he usually takes a little less damage than when he fights alone. Receiving not as much damage may indicate that Swain does a decent job of covering Graves in team fights.
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Is Graves better when played alongside Swain?
There is no one best ally for Graves that will always be his best synergy. Yet, Swain is a very typical ally for Graves. By locking into the same team as Graves, he increases their win rate by 0.5% to 51.0%. This shows that there is only a small strategic relationship between Graves and Swain that allows them to perform at the top of their game together than without each other.
Swain has a much greater difficulty compared to Graves. That means Graves players must be careful when lining up Swain comrades to play with, as they will have to have a much greater level of skill to do well with you.
When playing cooperatively, Graves players will likely observe an overall large increase in your team’s ability to deal magic damage. Together, these champions can deal quite a lot of AP type damage.
In contrast, by bringing Graves and Swain together, you may not be granting your other teammates enough crowd control. We recommend you bring other champions on your team that neutralizes this hole in their playstyle.
Regardless of your Swain ally's ability, you need to focus on maximizing your gold income, outlasting your enemies, and clearing objectives. If you do this, you should do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to truly master Graves to synergize with Swain during both the laning and mid / late game phases of LoL matches, you should keep reading to master some more tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you use the build and stats shown above, you will increase your win rate by a lot.
The top items to include in your Graves and Swain synergy build include Youmuu's Ghostblade, The Collector, and Opportunity. When Graves incorporated at least these three great items in his build, he did significantly better as an ally of Swain than with many other commonly used builds. In fact, Graves had an average win rate of 51.0% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Swain with these items in his kit.
To have the best chance of vanquishing your oponents, you should equip the Fleet Footwork, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Coup de Grace, Sudden Impact, and Eyeball Collection runes from the Precision and Domination rune sets. Out of all the rune builds that we analyzed for this team composition, this composite of runes yielded the top win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 51.0% winrate overall.
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