Swain with Akshan
How to Synergize Swain and Akshan
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Swain Akshan Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Swain and Akshan
Tips for Playing as Swain with Akshan
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 Akshan Will Play
Raising an eyebrow in the face of danger, Akshan fights evil with dashing charisma, righteous vengeance, and a conspicuous lack of shirts. He is highly skilled in the art of stealth combat, able to evade the eyes of his enemies and reappear when they least expect him. With a keen sense of justice and a legendary death-reversing weapon, he rights the wrongs of Runeterra's many scoundrels while living by his own moral code: “Don't be an ass.”
Swain Akshan Synergy Stats
How to Play with Akshan as Swain in LoL
The Swain Akshan synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Akshan, 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 large worsening in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Akshan. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This fall shows that Akshan helps Swain perform poorer in competitive League rounds. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Swain is an ally to Akshan, he sees a little increase in his full damage output. This change may demonstrate that Akshan provides cover for him to dish out more damage or that their presence on the team also helps increase the match's duration. Similarly, when Swain is played together with Akshan on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing synergisticly with Akshan.
Moreover, when Swain plays with Akshan on the same side, he often receives a little more damage than when he fights alone. Getting dealt more damage could mean that Akshan does a poor job of covering Swain during teamfights.
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Is Swain better when played alongside Akshan?
There is no universally accepted best champion pairing for Swain that will always be his #1 teammate. However, overall, Akshan is a very typical companion for Swain. By playing on the same side as Swain, they lowers their win rate by -0.7% to 50.6%. This demonstrates that there is a weak bond between Swain and Akshan that allows them to perform worse together than without each other.
Akshan has a much lower diffuclty than Swain. That means Swain players don't need to be very careful when finding Akshan teammates to play with, as they will require a much lower level of skill to cooperate well with you.
Playing alongside, Swain players should expect to observe an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to to do a lot of AP damage. Together, these champs are able to dish out a surprising amount of magic type damage.
Although, by grouping Swain and Akshan together, you probably will not be giving your other allies very much sustained damage output. We recommend you have other champs on your team that neutralizes this gap in their kit.
Regardless of the ability of your Akshan ally, you should focus on increasing your gold income, outlasting your enemies, and taking down objectives. If you do this, you should 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 Swain in order to work well with Akshan during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League matches, you should continue reading to pick up additional lessons on this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and tips shown here, you will grow your win rate significantly.
The top items to get in your Swain and Akshan synergy build consist of Zhonya's Hourglass, Zaz'Zak's Realmspike, and Liandry's Torment. When Swain included at least these three finished items in his build, he did much better when paired up with Akshan than with most other commonly used item sets. In fact, Swain had an average winrate of 50.6% helping carry Akshan with these items in his kit.
To have the best chance of defeating your oponents, Swain players should equip the Electrocute, Cheap Shot, Eyeball Collection, Ultimate Hunter, Coup de Grace, and Presence of Mind runes from the Domination and Precision rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations that we analyzed for Swain and Akshan pairings, this sequence of runes yielded the top win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 50.6% winrate overall.
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