Katarina with Swain
How to Synergize Katarina and Swain
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Katarina Swain Synergy Summary
Best Katarina vs Swain Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Katarina and Swain
Tips for Playing as Katarina with Swain
Picking up Daggers will significantly reduce Shunpo's cooldown.
Try waiting until the other team is distracted with fighting your team, and use Shunpo to teleport into the fray and unleash a devastating Death Lotus.
Using Shunpo on an allied Champion, Dagger, or minion can be a great escape tactic.
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.
Katarina Swain Synergy Stats
How to Play with Swain as Katarina in LoL
The Katarina 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, Katarina sees a very large drop in her KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Swain. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This fall shows that Swain helps Katarina perform poorer in ranked LoL matches. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Katarina plays on the same team as Swain, she gets a barely noticable drop in her full damage output. This difference may indicate that Swain does not help cover for her to dish out more damage or that his participation also helps extend the round's duration. Similarly, when Katarina is played 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 with Swain.
Moreover, when Katarina plays with Swain on the same side, she on average receives a little more damage than when she fights alone. Taking more damage may mean that Swain does a poor job of covering Katarina during teamfights.
Synergies between Katarina and Swain
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Is Katarina better when played alongside Swain?
There is no universally accepted best synergy for Katarina that will no matter what be her best teammate. Yet, Swain is a very typical companion for Katarina. By playing on the same side as Katarina, he decreases their win rate by -0.3% to 48.5%. This demonstrates that there is not really a strong bond between Katarina and Swain that allows them to perform not as well together than without each other.
Swain has a lower difficulty than Katarina. That means Katarina players don't need to be cautious when enlisting Swain teammates to fight alongside, as they will have to have a lower level of skill to fight well with you.
Playing together, Katarina players will likely witness an overall large increase in your team’s ability to deal magic damage. Combined, these champs can blast through enemies with magic damage.
In contrast, by pairing Katarina and Swain together, you probably will not be granting your other allies enough crowd control. Plan to include other champs on your team that nullifies this hole in this pairing's playstyle.
Regardless of your Swain ally's skill level, you need to focus on maximizing your income, warding to avoid ambushes, and clearing objectives. If you do this, you should do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Katarina in order to synergize with Swain during both the lane and mid / late game phases of LoL matches, you should continue reading to pick up a few extra tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you mind the build and suggestions shown here, you should grow your win rate by a lot.
The most crucial finished items to include in your Katarina and Swain synergy build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Zhonya's Hourglass, and Stormsurge. When Katarina used at least these three finished items in her build, she performed significantly better when paired up with Swain than with most other common builds. In fact, Katarina boasted an average win rate of 48.5% when playing alongside Swain with this build.
To have the best probability of coming out on top against your oponents, Katarina players should use the Electrocute, Sudden Impact, Eyeball Collection, Relentless Hunter, Triumph, and Coup de Grace runes from the Domination and Precision rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations players picked for this team composition, this composite of runes resulted in the best win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 48.5% win rate overall.
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