Poppy with Swain
How to Synergize Poppy and Swain
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Poppy Swain Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Poppy and Swain
Tips for Playing as Poppy with Swain
Keeper's Verdict can be released immediately to send the enemy straight up, take advantage of this in duels.
Iron Ambassador tends to land near walls, try to take advantage of this with Heroic Charge.
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.
Poppy Swain Synergy Stats
How to Play with Swain as Poppy in LoL
The Poppy 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, Poppy sees a large worsening in her KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Swain. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This decrease shows that Swain helps Poppy perform poorer in ranked LoL games. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is only marginal.
When Poppy is paired with Swain, she gets a little decrease in her total damage dealt. This difference may signal that Swain doesn't help protection for her to dish out more damage or that his presence also helps extend the match's duration. Similarly, when Poppy is played together with Swain on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when she plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing with Swain.
Additionally, when Poppy plays with Swain on the same side, she typically takes a little more damage than when she fights alone. Getting dealt more damage could mean that Swain does a poor job of covering Poppy in team fights.
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Is Poppy better when played alongside Swain?
There is no universally accepted best synergy for Poppy that will no matter what be her best ally. Yet, Swain is a decent ally for Poppy. By being on the same side as Poppy, he raises their win rate by 2.5% to 52.2%. This proves that there is a somewhat important bond between Poppy and Swain that results in them performing stronger together than alone.
Swain has a greater difficulty than Poppy. That means Poppy players must be very careful when arranging Swain comrades to play with, as they will need a greater level of skill to be able to do well with you.
Working on the same side, Poppy players should expect to witness an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to soak up damage. When paired, these champions will be a great protective duo.
In contrast, by bringing Poppy and Swain together, you will not be giving your other teammates a lot of sustained damage output. We recommend you bring other champions on your team that nullifies this relative gap in their potential.
Regardless of the skill of your Swain ally, you should focus on increasing your income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and taking down objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you will do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To learn all of the intricacies of Poppy to work well with Swain during both the early game and mid / late game phases of LoL matches, you should keep reading to master additional tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you use the build and suggestions shown here, you will grow your win rate by a lot.
The best items to get in your Poppy and Swain synergy build consist of Sunfire Aegis, Thornmail, and Jak'Sho, The Protean. When Poppy included at least these three great items in her build, she did a lot better when paired up with Swain than with many other common builds. In fact, Poppy boasted an average win rate of 52.2% when playing alongside Swain with this build.
To have the best likelihood of crushing your oponents, Poppy players should use the Grasp of the Undying, Shield Bash, Bone Plating, Revitalize, Biscuit Delivery, and Time Warp Tonic runes from the Resolve and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations players chose for this champion pairing, this mix of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 52.2% winrate overall.
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