Leona with Swain
How to Synergize Leona and Swain
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Leona Swain Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Leona and Swain
Tips for Playing as Leona with Swain
Shield of Daybreak and Zenith Blade form a powerful offensive combo.
Lead the charge and mark your foes with Sunlight before your allies deal damage.
You can absorb a huge amount of damage using Eclipse, but you must stay near enemies to gain the bonus duration.
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.
Leona Swain Synergy Stats
How to Play with Swain as Leona in LoL
The Leona 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, Leona sees a very large drop in her KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Swain. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This decrease shows that Swain helps Leona perform not as well in competitive League of Legends matches. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Leona is an ally to Swain, she gets a marginal improvement in her total damage dealt. This could signal that Swain provides protection for her to deal more damage or that his allyship also helps increase the round's duration. Similarly, when Leona is played together with Swain on the same team, 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 alongside Swain.
Additionally, when Leona plays with Swain on the same side, she on average receives a little more damage than when she fights alone. Getting dealt more damage could mean that Swain does a poor job of protecting Leona in teamfights.
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Is Leona better when played alongside Swain?
There is no perfect synergy for Leona that will always be her top ally. Yet, Swain is a superb companion for Leona. By locking into the same side as Leona, he improves their win rate by 3.4% to 55.6%. This shows that there is a strong synergy between Leona and Swain that allows them to perform at the top of their game together than without each other.
Swain has a much greater difficulty compared to Leona. That means you should be very careful when finding Swain teammates to go into battle on the same side as, as they will require a much higher level of skill to be able to work well with you.
Working cooperatively, Leona players should see an overall large increase in your team’s capability to soak up damage. When paired, these champs will be a great protective duo.
In contrast, by pairing Leona and Swain together, you probably will not be granting your other teammates much AD. Plan to pick other champions on your team that neutralizes this relative hole in their kit.
Regardless of the skill of your Swain teammate, you need to focus on increasing your income, outlasting your enemies, 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 Leona to work well with Swain during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to gather additional tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and tips presented here, you will grow your win rate significantly.
The top finished items to focus on in your Leona and Swain synergy build consist of Knight's Vow, Locket of the Iron Solari, and Solstice Sleigh. When Leona bought at least these three finished items in her build, she performed much better when fighting alongside Swain than with most other commonly used builds. In fact, Leona boasted an average win rate of 55.6% when playing alongside Swain with these items in her kit.
To have the greatest chance of annihilating your oponents, Leona players should take the Aftershock, Font of Life, Second Wind, Overgrowth, Legend: Tenacity, and Triumph runes from the Resolve and Precision rune sets. Out of all the rune sets players used for this champion pairing, this blending of runes resulted in the top win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 55.6% win rate overall.
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