Shaco with Swain
How to Synergize Shaco and Swain
based on 4,363 Shaco with Swain pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Shaco Swain Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Shaco and Swain
Tips for Playing as Shaco with Swain
Using Deceive over terrain can help you make a clean escape.
Try getting items with on-hit effects. These will also benefit your Hallucination clone.
Backstab's damage can be increased with increased Critical Damage effects like Infinity Edge.
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.
Shaco Swain Synergy Stats
How to Play with Swain as Shaco in LoL
The Shaco 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, Shaco 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 fall shows that Swain helps Shaco perform worse in competitive League matches. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Shaco tries to synergize with Swain, he gets a small decrease in his total damage output. This difference may signal that Swain does not help protection for him to dish out more damage or that his allyship also helps extend the round's duration. Similarly, when Shaco is played alongside Swain on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing with Swain.
Additionally, when Shaco plays with Swain on the same side, he often takes a little more damage than when he plays alone. Taking more damage may mean that Swain does a poor job of protecting Shaco in teamfights.
Synergies between Shaco and Swain
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Is Shaco better when played alongside Swain?
There is no universally accepted best champion pairing for Shaco that will 100% of the time be his #1 teammate. Yet, Swain is a good ally for Shaco. By being on the same team as Shaco, he improves their win rate by 1.6% to 51.0%. This clearly indicates that there is a somewhat important synergy between Shaco and Swain that allows them to perform stronger together than without each other.
Swain has a lower difficulty than Shaco. That means Shaco players don't need to be cautious when lining up Swain allies to play with, as they will require a lower level of skill to be able to fight well with you.
When playing cooperatively, Shaco players should expect to see an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to deal magic damage. Together, these two can blast through enemies with magic damage.
Conversely, by pairing Shaco and Swain together, you may not be giving your other allies a lot of support. Make sure to bring other champions on your team that nullifies this relative hole in their abilities.
Regardless of your Swain ally's ability, you need to focus on increasing your income, outlasting your enemies, and clearing objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you will do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Shaco to pair well with Swain during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League matches, you should keep reading to master a few extra lessons on this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and tips displayed here, you will increase your win rate by a lot.
The ideal finished items to get in your Shaco and Swain synergy build consist of Bloodsong, Voltaic Cyclosword, and Opportunity. When Shaco included at least these three pieces in his build, he did much better when paired up with Swain than with most other typical item sets. In fact, Shaco had an average win rate of 51.0% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Swain with these items in his kit.
To have the greatest chance of defeating your oponents, Shaco players should equip the Hail of Blades, Sudden Impact, Eyeball Collection, Relentless Hunter, Legend: Alacrity, and Coup de Grace runes from the Domination and Precision rune sets. Of all the rune combinations that we analyzed for Shaco and Swain pairings, this order of runes resulted in the top win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 51.0% winrate overall.
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