Kai'Sa with Swain
How to Synergize Kai'Sa and Swain
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Kai'Sa Swain Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Kai'Sa and Swain
Tips for Playing as Kai'Sa with Swain
Make sure to buy items that will evolve at least 1 or 2 of your spells.
Work with your teammates to set up your Ultimate and optimize damage with your passive.
Try to catch enemy carries alone to burst them with Icathian Rain.
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.
Kai'Sa Swain Synergy Stats
How to Play with Swain as Kai'Sa in LoL
The Kai'Sa 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, Kai'Sa 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 Kai'Sa perform poorer in competitive League of Legends games. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Kai'Sa is an ally to Swain, she gets a small decrease in her complete damage dealt. This change could signal that Swain does not support by providing protection for her to deal more damage or that his support also helps extend the match's duration. Similarly, when Kai'Sa is played together with Swain on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when she plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing synergisticly with Swain.
Moreover, when Kai'Sa plays with Swain on the same team, she often receives a little more damage than when she fights alone. Getting dealt more damage may mean that Swain does a poor job of protecting Kai'Sa in team fights.
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Is Kai'Sa better when played alongside Swain?
There is no perfect champion pairing for Kai'Sa that will 100% of the time be her #1 synergy. However, Swain is a good teammate for Kai'Sa. By locking into the same side as Kai'Sa, he increases their win rate by 1.6% to 48.1%. This signals that there is a good strategic relationship between Kai'Sa and Swain that allows them to perform stronger together than without each other.
Swain has a greater difficulty than Kai'Sa. That means you need to be very careful when enlisting Swain comrades to play with, as they will have to have a greater level of skill to play well with you.
Working alongside, Kai'Sa players should expect to see an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to to do a lot of AP damage. When paired, these champions are able to dish out a surprising amount of magic type damage.
In contrast, by aligning Kai'Sa and Swain together, you will not be giving your team very much crowd control. We recommend you pick other champions on your team that offsets this relative disparity in this pairing's abilities.
Regardless of the ability of your Swain ally, you should focus on increasing your gold income, warding to avoid ambushes, and taking down objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you should do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To learn all of the intricacies of Kai'Sa in order to work well with Swain during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends games, you should continue reading to learn some more tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you mind the build and tips displayed here, you will increase your win rate by a lot.
The best items to build first in your Kai'Sa and Swain synergy build consist of Stormrazor, Nashor's Tooth, and Guinsoo's Rageblade. When Kai'Sa included at least these three pieces in her build, she did a lot better as an ally of Swain than with many other typical item sets. In fact, Kai'Sa boasted an average winrate of 48.1% helping carry Swain with this build.
To have the greatest chance of defeating your oponents, Kai'Sa players should equip the Lethal Tempo, Presence of Mind, Legend: Bloodline, Coup de Grace, Biscuit Delivery, and Magical Footwear runes from the Precision and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the rune combinations that we analyzed for this team composition, this combo of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 48.1% win rate overall.
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