Swain with Akali
How to Synergize Swain and Akali
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Swain Akali Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Swain and Akali
Tips for Playing as Swain with Akali
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.
Advice to Understand How Akali Will Play
Akali excels at killing fragile champions. Let your team initiate and then strike at the people in the back.
Twilight Shroud offers safety in even the most dangerous situations. Use that time to save up energy for a quick strike later.
Swain Akali Synergy Stats
How to Play with Akali as Swain in LoL
The Swain Akali synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Akali, compared to his overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how his gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Swain sees a very large drop in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Akali. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Akali helps Swain perform not as well in competitive League rounds. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Swain is an ally to Akali, he observes a small decrease in his complete damage dealt. This change may demonstrate that Akali does not provide cover for him to dish out more damage or that her presence on the team also helps increase the match's duration. Similarly, when Swain is played alongside Akali on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays without Akali. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing with Akali.
Additionally, when Swain plays with Akali on the same side, he on average takes a little less damage than when he fights alone. Taking not as much damage could indicate that Akali does a decent job of covering Swain in teamfights.
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Is Swain better when played alongside Akali?
There is no top ally for Swain that will no matter what be his ideal teammate. Yet, overall, Akali is a not very good ally for Swain. By being on the same team as Swain, she lowers their win rate by -1.3% to 50.0%. This signals that there is a negative strategic relationship between Swain and Akali that allows them to perform not as well together than without each other.
Akali has a lower difficulty than Swain. That means you don't need to be cautious when arranging Akali comrades to play with, as they will require a lower level of skill to be able to fight well with you.
Fighting cooperatively, Swain players should expect to witness an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to deal magical damage. When paired, these champs can blast through enemies with magic damage.
Conversely, by bringing Swain and Akali together, you will not be giving your other teammates a great deal of crowd control. Make sure to bring other champs on your team that fills this hole in this pairing's potential.
Regardless of the skill of your Akali ally, you should focus on increasing your gold income, outlasting your enemies, and taking down objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you will do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To truly master Swain in order to pair well with Akali during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League games, you should continue reading to learn a few extra tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you mind the build and stats shown above, you should grow your win rate significantly.
The top items to prioritize in your Swain and Akali synergy build include Cryptbloom, Zaz'Zak's Realmspike, and Liandry's Torment. When Swain bought at least these three great items in his build, he did a lot better when fighting alongside Akali than with most other commonly used item sets. In fact, Swain had an average win rate of 50.0% when playing alongside Akali with these items in his kit.
To have the greatest chance of beating your oponents, you should use the Electrocute, Cheap Shot, Eyeball Collection, Ultimate Hunter, Cosmic Insight, and Triple Tonic runes from the Domination and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the rune combinations players picked for this champion pairing, this sequence of runes yielded the top win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 50.0% win rate overall.
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