Mortal Will activates after 5 spells or basic attacks - plan your way through fights to allow you to activate it more than once.
Whittle the enemy down with Comet Spears before you jump in.
If an enemy is going to get out of range of your Aegis Assault, you can recast the spell to immediately fire the shield slam.
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.
The Pantheon 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, Pantheon 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 worsening shows that Swain helps Pantheon perform worse in ranked League of Legends games. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is only marginal.
When Pantheon is an ally to Swain, he gets a marginal improvement in his complete damage dealt. This difference could indicate that Swain supports by providing protection for him to dish out more damage or that his allyship also helps increase the game's duration. Similarly, when Pantheon is played alongside Swain on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays without Swain. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing with Swain.
Additionally, when Pantheon plays with Swain on the same team, he often receives a little more damage than when he fights alone. Getting dealt more damage may indicate that Swain does a poor job of covering Pantheon during team fights.
There is no perfect champion pairing for Pantheon that will no matter what be his #1 synergy. However, overall, Swain is a good ally for Pantheon. By playing on the same side as Pantheon, he improves their win rate by 2.4% to 51.8%. This shows that there is pretty good bond between Pantheon and Swain that results in them performing stronger together than alone.
Swain has a much greater difficulty compared to Pantheon. That means Pantheon players need to be cautious when enlisting Swain comrades to fight alongside, as they will require a much higher level of skill to be able to cooperate well with you.
Fighting cooperatively, you will likely witness an overall large increase in your team’s capability to to do a lot of AP damage. When paired, these two can blast through enemies with magic damage.
In contrast, by pairing Pantheon and Swain together, you probably will not be providing your other allies a great deal of utility. We recommend you bring other champions on your team that offsets this relative gap in their playstyle.
Regardless of your Swain ally's skill level, you need to focus on maximizing your gold income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and taking down objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you should do well anyway.
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Pantheon in order to work well with Swain during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League rounds, you should continue reading to learn some more tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you mind the build and stats displayed above, you will grow your win rate significantly.
The most crucial items to build first in your Pantheon and Swain synergy build include Sterak's Gage, Spear of Shojin, and Eclipse. When Pantheon included at least these three finished items in his build, he performed much better when fighting alongside Swain than with most other commonly used item sets. In fact, Pantheon had an average win rate of 51.8% when playing alongside Swain with this build.
To have the best chance of beating your oponents, you should take the Press the Attack, Presence of Mind, Legend: Tenacity, Last Stand, Transcendence, and Scorch runes from the Precision and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the rune sets that we analyzed for this team composition, this order of runes yielded the highest win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 51.8% winrate overall.
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