Sona with Swain
How to Synergize Sona and Swain
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Sona Swain Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Sona and Swain
Tips for Playing as Sona with Swain
Make sure to tag your allies while Sona's auras are active, but avoid getting caught out by enemies.
Save Crescendo for the game-altering moment.
Well-timed uses of Aria of Perseverance will grant you maximum survivability.
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.
Sona Swain Synergy Stats
How to Play with Swain as Sona in LoL
The Sona 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, Sona 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 decrease shows that Swain helps Sona perform poorer in ranked LoL matches. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Sona is paired with Swain, she gets a little increase in her total damage output. This may signal that Swain provides cover for her to dish out more damage or that his allyship also helps extend the match's duration. Similarly, when Sona is played alongside Swain on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when she plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing with Swain.
Additionally, when Sona plays with Swain on the same side, she typically takes a little less damage than when she fights alone. Getting dealt not as much damage could mean that Swain does a decent job of covering Sona during teamfights.
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Is Sona better when played alongside Swain?
There is no universally accepted best ally for Sona that will 100% of the time be her ideal synergy. Yet, Swain is a decent teammate for Sona. By locking into the same side as Sona, he increases their win rate by 2.9% to 53.3%. This demonstrates that there is a potentially meaningful strategic relationship between Sona and Swain that allows them to perform at the top of their game together than alone.
Swain has a much greater difficulty compared to Sona. That means you should be very careful when finding Swain teammates to play with, as they will need a much greater level of skill to do well with you.
Working cooperatively, you will likely observe an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to deal magic damage. When paired, these champions can blast through enemies with magic damage.
Although, by grouping Sona and Swain together, you will not be giving your side much AD. We recommend you bring other champions on your team that nullifies this relative gap in their playstyle.
Regardless of the skill of your Swain teammate, you should focus on maximizing your income, warding to avoid ambushes, and taking down objectives. If you do this, you will 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 Sona in order to synergize with Swain during both the early game and mid / late game phases of LoL matches, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you mind the build and suggestions displayed above, you should grow your win rate by a lot.
The best items to get in your Sona and Swain synergy build consist of Redemption, Dream Maker, and Moonstone Renewer. When Sona combined at least these three items in her build, she performed significantly better when fighting alongside Swain than with most other common builds. In fact, Sona boasted an average win rate of 53.3% when synergizing her build and playstyle to Swain with these items in her kit.
To have the best likelihood of crushing your oponents, you should use the Summon Aery, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Gathering Storm, Conditioning, and Revitalize runes from the Sorcery and Resolve rune sets. Of all the runes we have analyed for this champion pairing, this combo of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 53.3% win rate overall.
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