Mordekaiser with Swain
How to Synergize Mordekaiser and Swain
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Mordekaiser Swain Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Mordekaiser and Swain
Tips for Playing as Mordekaiser with Swain
Hitting multiple champions with the same ability can help quickly activate Darkness Rise.
Offense is your defense. Keep fighting to build up larger Indestructible shields.
Use Realm of Death on a low health enemy to guarantee the kill and keep their stats for the rest of a teamfight.
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.
Mordekaiser Swain Synergy Stats
How to Play with Swain as Mordekaiser in LoL
The Mordekaiser 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, Mordekaiser 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 negative change shows that Swain helps Mordekaiser perform not as well in ranked League games. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Mordekaiser is paired with Swain, he gets a little decrease in his full damage dealt. This change may indicate that Swain does not support by providing cover for him to dish out more damage or that his support also helps extend the match's duration. Similarly, when Mordekaiser is played together with Swain on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays without Swain. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing with Swain.
Moreover, when Mordekaiser plays with Swain on the same side, he usually takes a little less damage than when he fights alone. Getting dealt not as much damage may indicate that Swain does a decent job of protecting Mordekaiser in teamfights.
Synergies between Mordekaiser and Swain
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Is Mordekaiser better when played alongside Swain?
There is no universally accepted best synergy for Mordekaiser that will no matter what be his ideal synergy. However, overall, Swain is a very typical ally for Mordekaiser. By being on the same team as Mordekaiser, he lowers their win rate by -0.3% to 52.2%. This clearly indicates that there is a weak synergy between Mordekaiser and Swain that results in them performing worse together than alone.
Swain has a much greater difficulty compared to Mordekaiser. That means you need to be cautious when lining up Swain teammates to play with, as they will require a much higher level of skill to be able to work well with you.
Working on the same side, you should expect to observe an overall large increase in your team’s capability to to do a lot of AP damage. Combined, these two are able to dish out a surprising amount of magic type damage.
In contrast, by grouping Mordekaiser and Swain together, you may not be giving your other teammates enough anti-tank damage dealing potential. Make sure to bring other champs on your team that fills this relative gap in this pairing's kit.
Regardless of the skill of your Swain ally, you need to focus on maximizing your gold income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and clearing objectives. If you do this, you will do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Mordekaiser in order to pair well with Swain during both the early game and mid / late game phases of LoL, you should keep reading to master a few extra tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you use the build and suggestions presented above, you will grow your win rate significantly.
The top items to focus on in your Mordekaiser and Swain synergy build include Spirit Visage, Zhonya's Hourglass, and Riftmaker. When Mordekaiser combined at least these three pieces in his build, he did significantly better as an ally of Swain than with most other common item sets. In fact, Mordekaiser boasted an average winrate of 52.2% helping carry Swain with this build.
To have the highest chance of vanquishing your oponents, you should use the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Tenacity, Last Stand, Gathering Storm, and Transcendence runes from the Precision and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the runes players used for this champion pairing, this blending of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 52.2% win rate overall.
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