Kindred with Swain
How to Synergize Kindred and Swain
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Kindred Swain Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Kindred and Swain
Tips for Playing as Kindred with Swain
Pick which Hunts you want to pursue carefully; getting many of them is the key to success as the game goes on.
Don't go in first to a large team fight. Wait for your teammates to initiate.
Moving around between attacks while jungling will help you avoid damage and also generate more heals from Wolf's Frenzy.
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.
Kindred Swain Synergy Stats
How to Play with Swain as Kindred in LoL
The Kindred Swain synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of their gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Swain, compared to their overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how their gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Kindred sees a large worsening in their KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Swain. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Swain helps Kindred perform poorer in competitive League of Legends rounds. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Kindred tries to synergize with Swain, they gets a small decrease in their total damage dealt. This change could demonstrate that Swain doesn't help protection for them to dish out more damage or that his presence also helps extend the round's duration. Similarly, when Kindred is played alongside Swain on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when they plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that they is worse when playing synergisticly with Swain.
Additionally, when Kindred plays with Swain on the same side, they usually takes a little more damage than when they plays alone. Receiving more damage may mean that Swain does a poor job of covering Kindred in teamfights.
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Is Kindred better when played alongside Swain?
There is no ideal champion pairing for Kindred that will 100% of the time be their #1 synergy. Yet, overall, Swain is a great ally for Kindred. By being on the same side as Kindred, he increases their win rate by 3.3% to 51.6%. This signals that there is a very strong bond between Kindred and Swain that results in them performing better together than without each other.
Swain has a much greater difficulty compared to Kindred. That means you should be very careful when lining up Swain allies to play with, as they will have to have a much greater level of skill to be able to fight well with you.
Playing cooperatively, you should witness an overall large increase in your team’s ability to deal magic damage. Together, these champions are able to dish out a surprising amount of magic type damage.
Conversely, by pairing Kindred and Swain together, you probably will not be providing your team a great deal of crowd control. Plan to include other champs on your team that helps cover this relative disparity in this pairing's capabilities.
Regardless of the ability of your Swain ally, you should focus on increasing your income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and taking down objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you will do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To truly master Kindred to work well with Swain during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League, you should continue reading to learn some more lessons on this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and suggestions presented here, you will increase your win rate significantly.
The most important items to get in your Kindred and Swain synergy build include Guardian Angel, Trinity Force, and Kraken Slayer. When Kindred combined at least these three pieces in their build, they performed significantly better when paired up with Swain than with many other common builds. In fact, Kindred boasted an average win rate of 51.6% when playing alongside Swain with these items in their kit.
To have the greatest probability of vanquishing your oponents, Kindred players should equip the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Coup de Grace, Sudden Impact, and Treasure Hunter runes from the Precision and Domination rune sets. Of all the runes players picked for this team composition, this mix of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 51.6% winrate overall.
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