Swain with Blitzcrank
How to Synergize Swain and Blitzcrank
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Swain Blitzcrank Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Swain and Blitzcrank
Tips for Playing as Swain with Blitzcrank
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 Blitzcrank Will Play
Using Blitzcrank's grab to pull an enemy into your tower range followed by a Power Fist will allow the tower to get several hits on them.
The 1-2-3 combo of Rocket Grab, Power Fist, and Static Field can devastate an individual opponent.
Swain Blitzcrank Synergy Stats
How to Play with Blitzcrank as Swain in LoL
The Swain Blitzcrank synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Blitzcrank, 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 Blitzcrank. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Blitzcrank helps Swain perform not as well in competitive League of Legends games. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is only marginal.
When Swain plays on the same team as Blitzcrank, he gets a very large increase in his total damage dealt. This could indicate that Blitzcrank provides protection for him to deal more damage or that his presence also helps increase the game's duration. Similarly, when Swain is played together with Blitzcrank on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing synergisticly with Blitzcrank.
Additionally, when Swain plays with Blitzcrank on the same team, he often takes a little more damage than when he fights alone. Taking more damage may indicate that Blitzcrank does a poor job of covering Swain during teamfights.
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Is Swain better when played alongside Blitzcrank?
There is no one best ally for Swain that will no matter what be his #1 ally. However, overall, Blitzcrank is a fantastic ally for Swain. By being on the same team as Swain, he raises their win rate by 3.3% to 54.6%. This clearly indicates that there is a very strong bond between Swain and Blitzcrank that results in them performing stronger together than alone.
Blitzcrank has a much lower diffuclty than Swain. That means Swain players don't need to be careful when arranging Blitzcrank comrades to go into battle on the same side as, as they will require a much lower level of skill to be able to do well with you.
Working alongside, Swain players should expect to witness an overall large increase in your team’s capability to to do a lot of AP damage. Combined, these two are able to dish out a surprising amount of magic type damage.
In contrast, by aligning Swain and Blitzcrank together, you probably will not be providing your other teammates a lot of attack damage. Make sure to have other champions on your team that nullifies this hole in this pairing's abilities.
Regardless of your Blitzcrank ally's skill level, you should focus on maximizing your gold income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and clearing objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you will do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to truly master Swain in order to pair well with Blitzcrank during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League, you should continue reading to gather additional tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you use the build and suggestions presented above, you should grow your win rate by a lot.
The most important items to get in your Swain and Blitzcrank synergy build include Rylai's Crystal Scepter, Zhonya's Hourglass, and Riftmaker. When Swain bought at least these three pieces in his build, he performed significantly better when fighting alongside Blitzcrank than with most other common item sets. In fact, Swain had an average winrate of 54.6% helping carry Blitzcrank with this build.
To have the highest probability of beating your oponents, Swain players should use the Summon Aery, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Scorch, Conditioning, and Overgrowth runes from the Sorcery and Resolve rune sets. Of all the rune builds players picked for this champion pairing, this blending of runes yielded the best win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 54.6% winrate overall.
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