Gwen with Swain
How to Synergize Gwen and Swain
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Gwen Swain Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Gwen and Swain
Tips for Playing as Gwen with Swain
Gwen can still damage enemies outside her Hallowed Mists, especially with her Ultimate's range.
Some of Gwen's Abilities can apply her passive to multiple enemies, so aim them at groups to get maximum damage and healing.
Always be Attacking - In addition to dealing bonus damage, Gwen's Attacks empower or reset many of her Abilities.
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.
Gwen Swain Synergy Stats
How to Play with Swain as Gwen in LoL
The Gwen 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, Gwen sees a large worsening in her KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Swain. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This fall shows that Swain helps Gwen perform worse in competitive League games. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is only marginal.
When Gwen is an ally to Swain, she sees a little drop in her complete damage output. This change could indicate that Swain does not provide cover for her to deal more damage or that his participation also helps increase the game's duration. Similarly, when Gwen is played together with Swain on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when she plays without Swain. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing alongside Swain.
Additionally, when Gwen plays with Swain on the same side, she on average takes a little more damage than when she fights alone. Getting dealt more damage could mean that Swain does a poor job of protecting Gwen in teamfights.
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Is Gwen better when played alongside Swain?
There is no top ally for Gwen that will always be her ideal synergy. Yet, Swain is a very typical teammate for Gwen. By locking into the same side as Gwen, he increases their win rate by 0.3% to 48.4%. This shows that there is not really a strong bond between Gwen and Swain that allows them to perform stronger together than without each other.
Swain has a greater difficulty than Gwen. That means you must be very careful when arranging Swain allies to play with, as they will need a greater level of skill to be able to fight well with you.
Working together, Gwen players will likely see an overall large increase in your team’s capability to deal magic damage. When paired, these champions can blast through enemies with magic damage.
Although, by pairing Gwen and Swain together, you probably will not be granting your team a great deal of utility. Plan to bring other champs on your team that fills this gap in this pairing's playstyle.
Regardless of your Swain ally's skill level, you should focus on maximizing your gold 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
To learn all of the intricacies of Gwen to work well with Swain during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League, you should keep reading to master additional tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you mind the build and suggestions displayed here, you will grow your win rate significantly.
The top finished items to have in your Gwen and Swain synergy build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Nashor's Tooth, and Riftmaker. When Gwen incorporated at least these three pieces in her build, she did much better as an ally of Swain than with most other commonly used builds. In fact, Gwen boasted an average win rate of 48.4% when synergizing her build and playstyle to Swain with these items in her kit.
To have the best likelihood of defeating your oponents, Gwen players should take the Conqueror, Presence of Mind, Legend: Alacrity, Last Stand, Second Wind, and Unflinching runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Of all the rune builds players chose for this team composition, this combination of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 48.4% win rate overall.
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