Olaf with Swain
How to Synergize Olaf and Swain
based on 1,284 Olaf with Swain pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Olaf Swain Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Olaf and Swain
Tips for Playing as Olaf with Swain
Olaf can combine Berserker Rage, Vicious Strikes, and Ragnarok at low life to become deceptively strong.
The bonus healing granted by Vicious Strikes amplifies your Life Steal from all sources as well as heals from allies.
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.
Olaf Swain Synergy Stats
How to Play with Swain as Olaf in LoL
The Olaf 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, Olaf sees a very large drop in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Swain. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This fall shows that Swain helps Olaf perform not as well in ranked League matches. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Olaf is paired with Swain, he sees a little increase in his complete damage dealt. This could indicate that Swain provides cover for him to deal more damage or that his allyship also helps increase the round's duration. Similarly, when Olaf is played together with Swain on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing with Swain.
Additionally, when Olaf plays with Swain on the same side, he typically takes a little more damage than when he plays alone. Getting dealt more damage may indicate that Swain does a poor job of covering Olaf in team fights.
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Is Olaf better when played alongside Swain?
There is no ideal champion pairing for Olaf that will no matter what be his best ally. Yet, Swain is a pretty good companion for Olaf. By being on the same team as Olaf, he raises their win rate by 1.2% to 50.2%. This shows that there is a somewhat important strategic relationship between Olaf and Swain that allows them to perform stronger together than without each other.
Swain has a much greater difficulty compared to Olaf. That means you need to be careful when lining up Swain comrades to fight alongside, as they will have to have a much higher level of skill to work well with you.
Fighting together, you will likely observe an overall large increase in your team’s capability to deal magical damage. When paired, these champions are able to dish out a surprising amount of magic type damage.
In contrast, by pairing Olaf and Swain together, you may not be granting your side a great deal of support. Plan to bring other champions on your team that helps cover this relative hole in this pairing's kit.
Regardless of the ability of your Swain ally, you should focus on maximizing your income, warding to avoid ambushes, and clearing objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you will do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To learn all of the intricacies of Olaf to work well with Swain during both the lane and mid / late game phases of LoL games, you should keep reading to learn some more tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you use the build and suggestions displayed above, you will increase your win rate significantly.
The ideal items to use in your Olaf and Swain synergy build include Sterak's Gage, Ravenous Hydra, and Stridebreaker. When Olaf combined at least these three items in his build, he performed a lot better when paired up with Swain than with many other commonly used builds. In fact, Olaf had an average winrate of 50.2% when playing alongside Swain with these items in his kit.
To have the greatest probability of coming out on top against your oponents, you should take the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Last Stand, Biscuit Delivery, and Approach Velocity runes from the Precision and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the runes we have analyed for this champion pairing, this mix of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 50.2% win rate overall.
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