Nunu & Willump with Swain
How to Synergize Nunu & Willump and Swain
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Nunu & Willump Swain Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Nunu & Willump and Swain
Tips for Playing as Nunu & Willump with Swain
Consume allows Nunu to stay in a lane against ranged opponents.
You can choose to interrupt Absolute Zero early for partial damage if an opponent is about to run out of range.
It's often beneficial to delay the casting of Absolute Zero until the initial round of disables are used. Try to hang back before rushing into a team fight.
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.
Nunu & Willump Swain Synergy Stats
How to Play with Swain as Nunu & Willump in LoL
The Nunu & Willump 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, Nunu & Willump sees a very large drop in his 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 Nunu & Willump perform not as well in ranked League of Legends matches. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Nunu & Willump is paired with Swain, he sees a little drop in his full damage output. This change could indicate that Swain doesn't help cover for him to dish out more damage or that his support also helps extend the match's duration. Similarly, when Nunu & Willump is played with Swain on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing alongside Swain.
Moreover, when Nunu & Willump plays with Swain on the same side, he on average takes a little more damage than when he fights alone. Taking more damage may indicate that Swain does a poor job of covering Nunu & Willump in team fights.
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Is Nunu & Willump better when played alongside Swain?
There is no universally accepted best companion for Nunu & Willump that will 100% of the time be his best teammate. Yet, Swain is a pretty good companion for Nunu & Willump. By locking into the same team as Nunu & Willump, he raises their win rate by 1.3% to 48.8%. This proves that there is a somewhat important bond between Nunu & Willump and Swain that allows them to perform stronger together than alone.
Swain has a much greater difficulty compared to Nunu & Willump. That means you should be careful when enlisting Swain comrades to fight alongside, as they will require a much higher level of skill to be able to play well with you.
When playing on the same side, Nunu & Willump players should observe an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to deal magic damage. When paired, these champs are able to dish out a surprising amount of magic type damage.
In contrast, by grouping Nunu & Willump and Swain together, you will not be granting your team enough AD. We recommend you bring other champs on your team that helps cover this relative disparity in their kit.
Regardless of the ability 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, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To learn all of the intricacies of Nunu & Willump to work well with Swain during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League matches, you should keep reading to gather 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 ideal items to get in your Nunu & Willump and Swain synergy build consist of Rabadon's Deathcap, Hextech Rocketbelt, and Stormsurge. When Nunu & Willump used at least these three items in his build, he performed much better when fighting alongside Swain than with many other typical item sets. In fact, Nunu & Willump had an average winrate of 48.8% when playing alongside Swain with this build.
To have the greatest chance of beating your oponents, Nunu & Willump players should equip the Dark Harvest, Cheap Shot, Eyeball Collection, Relentless Hunter, Celerity, and Waterwalking runes from the Domination and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations players picked for this champion pairing, this set of runes resulted in the highest win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 48.8% winrate overall.
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