Rakan with Swain
How to Synergize Rakan and Swain
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Rakan Swain Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Rakan and Swain
Tips for Playing as Rakan with Swain
Rakan's dash speeds increase with his Move Speed. Use the extra speed to surprise your enemies!
Danger is as fun as you let it be.
Rakan requires allies near him to make the most out of his tools.
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.
Rakan Swain Synergy Stats
How to Play with Swain as Rakan in LoL
The Rakan 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, Rakan sees a large worsening 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 Rakan perform poorer in competitive League games. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Rakan is paired with Swain, he sees a marginal improvement in his full damage output. This could signal that Swain supports by providing cover for him to deal more damage or that his presence also helps increase the round's duration. Similarly, when Rakan is played together with 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 synergisticly with Swain.
Additionally, when Rakan plays with Swain on the same side, he usually receives a little more damage than when he fights alone. Taking more damage may mean that Swain does a poor job of protecting Rakan during teamfights.
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Is Rakan better when played alongside Swain?
There is no top champion pairing for Rakan that will 100% of the time be his ideal ally. However, Swain is a top-tier teammate for Rakan. By locking into the same team as Rakan, he improves their win rate by 4.1% to 54.7%. This clearly indicates that there is a strong synergy between Rakan and Swain that results in them performing stronger together than without each other.
Swain has a greater difficulty than Rakan. That means you need to be very careful when finding Swain teammates to play with, as they will need a greater level of skill to be able to do well with you.
Working alongside, you will likely see an overall large increase in your team’s ability to deal magic damage. Together, these two are able to dish out a surprising amount of magic type damage.
In contrast, by bringing Rakan and Swain together, you probably will not be granting your team enough attack damage. Make sure to include other champions on your team that offsets this relative hole in this pairing's potential.
Regardless of the skill of your Swain teammate, you need to focus on increasing your income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and taking down objectives. If you do this, you should do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Rakan to work well with Swain during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends games, you should keep reading to learn a few extra tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you mind the build and tips shown here, you should grow your win rate by a lot.
The most crucial items to focus on in your Rakan and Swain synergy build consist of Trailblazer, Frozen Heart, and Solstice Sleigh. When Rakan bought at least these three items in his build, he performed a lot better when fighting alongside Swain than with many other commonly used builds. In fact, Rakan had an average win rate of 54.7% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Swain with this build.
To have the best likelihood of coming out on top against your oponents, you should equip the Guardian, Font of Life, Bone Plating, Unflinching, Ultimate Hunter, and Zombie Ward runes from the Resolve and Domination rune sets. Of all the rune sets players picked for this champion pairing, this combo of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 54.7% win rate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to pair Swain with Rakan are given for all ranked divisions. To narrow the stats and builds to an individual rank, you should use the selection menu earlier on the page.