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.
You can use Comet of Legend's flight to grow Starsurge to massive proportions.
Comet of Legend allows you to move quickly around the map; use it to put pressure on other lanes.
Save Voice of Light to use as a defense against melee opponents if you need to - otherwise, use its slow to start a fight at long range.
The Swain Aurelion Sol synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Aurelion Sol, 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 Aurelion Sol. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This negative change shows that Aurelion Sol helps Swain perform poorer in ranked League of Legends rounds. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Swain is an ally to Aurelion Sol, he sees a little drop in his complete damage output. This change could signal that Aurelion Sol doesn't help protection for him to dish out more damage or that his allyship also helps extend the game's duration. Similarly, when Swain is played together with Aurelion Sol on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing with Aurelion Sol.
Additionally, when Swain plays with Aurelion Sol on the same side, he typically receives a little more damage than when he plays alone. Getting dealt more damage could mean that Aurelion Sol does a poor job of protecting Swain in team fights.
There is no universally accepted best companion for Swain that will always be his ideal teammate. Yet, overall, Aurelion Sol is a below average ally for Swain. By locking into the same side as Swain, he lowers their win rate by -1.1% to 50.2%. This shows that there is a negative strategic relationship between Swain and Aurelion Sol that results in them performing not as well together than without each other.
Aurelion Sol has a lower difficulty than Swain. That means you don't need to be very careful when finding Aurelion Sol teammates to fight alongside, as they will have to have a relatively low level of skill to do well with you.
Playing cooperatively, Swain players will likely observe an overall large increase in your team’s ability to deal magic damage. Combined, these two can blast through enemies with magic damage.
In contrast, by aligning Swain and Aurelion Sol together, you probably will not be granting your other allies a lot of anti-tank damage dealing potential. We recommend you have other champs on your team that nullifies this relative hole in this pairing's abilities.
Regardless of the skill of your Aurelion Sol ally, you need to focus on maximizing your income, warding to avoid ambushes, and clearing objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you will do well anyway.
To truly master Swain to synergize with Aurelion Sol during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League games, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and suggestions shown above, you will grow your win rate significantly.
The ideal finished items to have in your Swain and Aurelion Sol synergy build include Rylai's Crystal Scepter, Malignance, and Liandry's Torment. When Swain included at least these three great items in his build, he did significantly better when fighting alongside Aurelion Sol than with many other common item sets. In fact, Swain boasted an average winrate of 50.2% helping carry Aurelion Sol with this build.
To have the greatest chance of vanquishing 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 runes players used for Swain and Aurelion Sol pairings, this sequence of runes yielded the top win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 50.2% win rate overall.
By default, tips, statistics, and builds on how to pair Aurelion Sol with Swain are given for every ranked division. If you would like to narrow the stats and builds to a specific player tier, you should use the selection menu at the top of this page.