Kalista with Swain
How to Synergize Kalista and Swain
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Kalista Swain Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Kalista and Swain
Tips for Playing as Kalista with Swain
Rend is a valuable last hitting aid, since its cooldown resets if it kills a target.
Entering a move order once to trigger Martial Poise will not clear Kalista's basic attack target.
Due to her passive, Kalista's Move Speed is effectively increased by Attack Speed.
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.
Kalista Swain Synergy Stats
How to Play with Swain as Kalista in LoL
The Kalista 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, Kalista sees a large worsening in her KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Swain. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This negative change shows that Swain helps Kalista perform worse in ranked LoL matches. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Kalista is paired with Swain, she gets a small decrease in her complete damage output. This change may signal that Swain does not provide protection for her to dish out more damage or that his presence on the team also helps extend the game's duration. Similarly, when Kalista is played alongside Swain on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when she plays without Swain. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing alongside Swain.
Moreover, when Kalista plays with Swain on the same team, she often takes a little less damage than when she plays alone. Receiving not as much damage could indicate that Swain does a decent job of protecting Kalista during teamfights.
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Is Kalista better when played alongside Swain?
There is no perfect companion for Kalista that will 100% of the time be her #1 synergy. However, overall, Swain is a pretty good teammate for Kalista. By playing on the same side as Kalista, he improves their win rate by 1.8% to 49.2%. This signals that there is a somewhat important strategic relationship between Kalista and Swain that allows them to perform stronger together than without each other.
Swain has a greater difficulty than Kalista. That means Kalista players must be very careful when enlisting Swain comrades to go into battle on the same side as, as they will require a greater level of skill to be able to cooperate well with you.
Fighting together, Kalista players should see an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to to do a lot of AP damage. Together, these champs can blast through enemies with magic damage.
Although, by aligning Kalista and Swain together, you will not be granting your side much support. We recommend you pick other champs on your team that offsets this relative disparity in this pairing's potential.
Regardless of your Swain ally's skill level, you need to focus on maximizing your gold income, outlasting your enemies, and clearing objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you will do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to truly master Kalista in order to work well with Swain during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League games, you should continue reading to gather additional lessons on this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and tips displayed here, you will increase your win rate by a lot.
The ideal items to include in your Kalista and Swain synergy build include Wit's End, Guinsoo's Rageblade, and Blade of The Ruined King. When Kalista included at least these three finished items in her build, she did a lot better as an ally of Swain than with many other typical builds. In fact, Kalista had an average win rate of 49.2% when synergizing her build and playstyle to Swain with these items in her kit.
To have the highest likelihood of defeating your oponents, Kalista players should use the Lethal Tempo, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Coup de Grace, Taste of Blood, and Treasure Hunter runes from the Precision and Domination rune sets. Of all the rune combinations players used for this team composition, this sequence of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 49.2% winrate overall.
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