Kog'Maw with Swain
How to Synergize Kog'Maw and Swain
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Kog'Maw Swain Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Kog'Maw and Swain
Tips for Playing as Kog'Maw with Swain
Make the most out of your Icathian Surprise.
Use Void Ooze to set up a perfect Living Artillery.
Kog'Maw can outrange most champions with his Bio-Arcane Barrage ability.
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.
Kog'Maw Swain Synergy Stats
How to Play with Swain as Kog'Maw in LoL
The Kog'Maw Swain synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Swain, compared to his overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how his gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Kog'Maw sees a large worsening in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Swain. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This fall shows that Swain helps Kog'Maw perform poorer in ranked League matches. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Kog'Maw is paired with Swain, he gets a moderate decrease in his total damage output. This difference may signal that Swain does not support by providing protection for him to deal more damage or that his support also helps extend the game's duration. Similarly, when Kog'Maw is played with Swain on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing alongside Swain.
Additionally, when Kog'Maw plays with Swain on the same team, he usually takes a little less damage than when he fights alone. Taking not as much damage could mean that Swain does a decent job of protecting Kog'Maw during team fights.
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Is Kog'Maw better when played alongside Swain?
There is no top champion pairing for Kog'Maw that will no matter what be his ideal teammate. Yet, overall, Swain is a very typical companion for Kog'Maw. By locking into the same side as Kog'Maw, he drops their win rate by -0.5% to 48.5%. This signals that there is not really a strong bond between Kog'Maw and Swain that results in them performing worse together than alone.
Swain has a greater difficulty than Kog'Maw. That means Kog'Maw players should be careful when enlisting Swain allies to fight alongside, as they will require a greater level of skill to be able to play well with you.
Fighting cooperatively, you should see an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to deal magical damage. When paired, these two can deal quite a lot of AP type damage.
Conversely, by pairing Kog'Maw and Swain together, you will not be giving your side enough support. We recommend you have other champs on your team that offsets this relative disparity in this pairing's capabilities.
Regardless of your Swain ally's skill level, you should focus on increasing your gold income, outlasting your enemies, and clearing 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 truly master Kog'Maw to pair well with Swain during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League rounds, you should continue reading to gather additional lessons on this champion pairing. If you use the build and suggestions displayed above, you will increase your win rate significantly.
The ideal finished items to include in your Kog'Maw and Swain synergy build consist of Runaan's Hurricane, Blade of The Ruined King, and Terminus. When Kog'Maw bought at least these three finished items in his build, he did much better when paired up with Swain than with most other common item sets. In fact, Kog'Maw boasted an average winrate of 48.5% helping carry Swain with these items in his kit.
To have the greatest chance of crushing your oponents, you should take the Lethal Tempo, Triumph, Legend: Bloodline, Last Stand, Conditioning, and Overgrowth runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the rune builds players chose for Kog'Maw and Swain pairings, this sequence of runes resulted in the best win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 48.5% win rate overall.
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