Shyvana with Swain
How to Synergize Shyvana and Swain
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Shyvana Swain Synergy Summary
Best Shyvana vs Swain Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Shyvana and Swain
Tips for Playing as Shyvana with Swain
It can be valuable to purchase one of the items that can slow enemies: Frozen Mallet, Dead Man's Plate, or Entropy.
Shyvana's abilities all benefit from attacking units. As a result, Attack Speed items are more valuable on her than most champions.
Burnout is an ideal choice for jungling. Monsters will be hit by the full duration, and the speed boost improves her ganking potential.
Flame Breath is great to level-up against difficult lane opponents.
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.
Shyvana Swain Synergy Stats
How to Play with Swain as Shyvana in LoL
The Shyvana 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, Shyvana sees a very large drop in her KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Swain. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This fall shows that Swain helps Shyvana perform poorer in competitive League rounds. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Shyvana plays on the same team as Swain, she sees a little decrease in her full damage dealt. This difference could demonstrate that Swain does not help cover for her to deal more damage or that his presence also helps extend the match's duration. Similarly, when Shyvana is played together with Swain on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when she plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing alongside Swain.
Moreover, when Shyvana plays with Swain on the same team, she usually takes a little more damage than when she fights alone. Taking more damage could indicate that Swain does a poor job of protecting Shyvana in team fights.
Synergies between Shyvana and Swain
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Is Shyvana better when played alongside Swain?
There is no top ally for Shyvana that will 100% of the time be her #1 ally. Yet, Swain is a good ally for Shyvana. By being on the same side as Shyvana, he raises their win rate by 2.9% to 52.0%. This demonstrates that there is a good bond between Shyvana and Swain that results in them performing better together than without each other.
Swain has a much greater difficulty compared to Shyvana. That means you need to be cautious 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 be able to fight well with you.
Playing cooperatively, you will likely observe an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to deal magic damage. Together, these champions are able to dish out a surprising amount of magic type damage.
Conversely, by grouping Shyvana and Swain together, you will not be providing your team much crowd control. Make sure to bring other champions on your team that fills this gap in this pairing's abilities.
Regardless of your Swain ally's skill level, you should focus on maximizing your income, warding to avoid ambushes, 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 Shyvana to work well with Swain during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to learn a few extra lessons on this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and suggestions shown above, you will grow your win rate significantly.
The ideal items to build first in your Shyvana and Swain synergy build consist of Rabadon's Deathcap, Nashor's Tooth, and Stormsurge. When Shyvana included at least these three great items in her build, she did a lot better when paired up with Swain than with most other typical builds. In fact, Shyvana had an average winrate of 52.0% when playing alongside Swain with this build.
To have the greatest likelihood of defeating your oponents, you should equip the Press the Attack, Triumph, Legend: Tenacity, Last Stand, Conditioning, and Unflinching runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the rune sets players used for this champion pairing, this combo of runes yielded the best win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 52.0% win rate overall.
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