Rek'Sai with Swain
How to Synergize Rek'Sai and Swain
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Rek'Sai Swain Synergy Summary
Best Rek'Sai vs Swain Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Rek'Sai and Swain
Tips for Playing as Rek'Sai with Swain
Keeping tunnels spread out across the map will ensure you have choices when you want to cast Void Rush.
Cast Burrow before travelling around the map to take advantage of the increased Move Speed and the safety provided by Tremor Sense.
Tremor Sense can warn you of enemies closing in, and is particularly useful when entering enemy territory.
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.
Rek'Sai Swain Synergy Stats
How to Play with Swain as Rek'Sai in LoL
The Rek'Sai 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, Rek'Sai 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 decrease shows that Swain helps Rek'Sai perform worse in ranked League games. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is only marginal.
When Rek'Sai tries to synergize with Swain, he sees a little drop in his full damage output. This could indicate that Swain doesn't help cover for him to deal more damage or that his presence also helps increase the match's duration. Similarly, when Rek'Sai is played alongside Swain on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing alongside Swain.
Moreover, when Rek'Sai plays with Swain on the same team, he typically receives a little more damage than when he fights alone. Taking more damage may indicate that Swain does a poor job of protecting Rek'Sai during teamfights.
Synergies between Rek'Sai and Swain
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Is Rek'Sai better when played alongside Swain?
There is no ideal synergy for Rek'Sai that will 100% of the time be his #1 synergy. However, Swain is a pretty good teammate for Rek'Sai. By locking into the same team as Rek'Sai, he increases their win rate by 2.1% to 50.5%. This signals that there is a somewhat important bond between Rek'Sai and Swain that allows them to perform at the top of their game together than without each other.
Swain has a much greater difficulty compared to Rek'Sai. That means Rek'Sai players must be careful when enlisting Swain allies to go into battle on the same side as, as they will have to have a much higher level of skill to work well with you.
Working on the same side, Rek'Sai players should expect to observe an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to to do a lot of AP damage. When paired, these two are able to dish out a surprising amount of magic type damage.
Conversely, by aligning Rek'Sai and Swain together, you probably will not be providing your side very much utility. Make sure to have other champs on your team that neutralizes this relative disparity in their capabilities.
Regardless of your Swain ally's ability, you should focus on maximizing your gold income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and taking down objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you should do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To truly master Rek'Sai to pair well with Swain during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League, you should continue reading to master some more tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and suggestions shown above, you will increase your win rate by a lot.
The best finished items to use in your Rek'Sai and Swain synergy build consist of Sterak's Gage, Black Cleaver, and Titanic Hydra. When Rek'Sai included at least these three great items in his build, he did significantly better when paired up with Swain than with most other common item sets. In fact, Rek'Sai had an average winrate of 50.5% helping carry Swain with these items in his kit.
To have the highest probability of coming out on top against your oponents, Rek'Sai players should use the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Coup de Grace, Magical Footwear, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Precision and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the rune sets players used for this team composition, this mixture of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 50.5% win rate overall.
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