Swain with Annie
How to Synergize Swain and Annie
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Swain Annie Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Swain and Annie
Tips for Playing as Swain with Annie
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 Annie Will Play
Molten Shield is a good spell to cast to work up to Annie's stun, so sometimes it's beneficial to grab at least 1 rank in it early.
Striking killing blows on minions with Disintegrate enables Annie to farm extremely well early in the game.
Storing a stun for use with her ultimate can turn the tide of a team fight.
Swain Annie Synergy Stats
How to Play with Annie as Swain in LoL
The Swain Annie synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Annie, 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 Annie. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Annie helps Swain perform worse in competitive League matches. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is only marginal.
When Swain is paired with Annie, he observes a small decrease in his total damage dealt. This may demonstrate that Annie does not support by providing cover for him to deal more damage or that her participation also helps extend the match's duration. Similarly, when Swain is played together with Annie on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays without Annie. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing with Annie.
Moreover, when Swain plays with Annie on the same team, he typically receives a little less damage than when he fights alone. Taking not as much damage may indicate that Annie does a decent job of covering Swain during teamfights.
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Is Swain better when played alongside Annie?
There is no one best companion for Swain that will no matter what be his #1 synergy. However, Annie is a relatively poor companion for Swain. By being on the same team as Swain, she lowers their win rate by -1.2% to 50.1%. This signals that there is a negative bond between Swain and Annie that results in them performing not as well together than without each other.
Annie has a lower difficulty than Swain. That means Swain players don't need to be careful when arranging Annie allies to fight alongside, as they will need a relatively low level of skill to be able to cooperate well with you.
Working alongside, you should witness an overall large increase in your team’s capability to to do a lot of AP damage. When paired, these champions are able to dish out a surprising amount of magic type damage.
In contrast, by bringing Swain and Annie together, you may not be giving your side much AD. Make sure to bring other champions on your team that offsets this relative disparity in this pairing's abilities.
Regardless of your Annie ally's skill level, you should focus on increasing your income, warding to avoid ambushes, and clearing objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you should do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To truly master Swain in order to synergize with Annie during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends games, you should keep reading to master a few extra tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you use the build and stats displayed above, you will grow your win rate by a lot.
The ideal items to get in your Swain and Annie synergy build consist of Rylai's Crystal Scepter, Zhonya's Hourglass, and Liandry's Torment. When Swain incorporated at least these three finished items in his build, he did a lot better when fighting alongside Annie than with most other typical item sets. In fact, Swain had an average winrate of 50.1% when playing alongside Annie with this build.
To have the highest chance of annihilating your oponents, Swain players should equip the Conqueror, Presence of Mind, Legend: Tenacity, Last Stand, Conditioning, and Overgrowth runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Of all the rune combinations players used for this champion pairing, this mix of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 50.1% winrate overall.
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