Swain with Cho'Gath
How to Synergize Swain and Cho'Gath
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Swain Cho'Gath Synergy Summary
Best Swain vs Cho'Gath Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Swain and Cho'Gath
Tips for Playing as Swain with Cho'Gath
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 Cho'Gath Will Play
Using Rupture on creeps in combination with Carnivore is a good way to gain Health and Mana.
If you're having difficulty feasting upon champions, try eating minions until you're larger.
Try to line up your attacks with Vorpal Spikes so that they kill minions and harass enemy champions at the same time.
Swain Cho'Gath Synergy Stats
How to Play with Cho'Gath as Swain in LoL
The Swain Cho'Gath synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Cho'Gath, 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 Cho'Gath. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This negative change shows that Cho'Gath helps Swain perform not as well in ranked League of Legends games. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Swain is paired with Cho'Gath, he sees a small increase in his total damage output. This may signal that Cho'Gath helps provide cover for him to dish out more damage or that his support also helps increase the game's duration. Similarly, when Swain is played with Cho'Gath on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing alongside Cho'Gath.
Moreover, when Swain plays with Cho'Gath on the same side, he on average receives a little more damage than when he plays alone. Getting dealt more damage could mean that Cho'Gath does a poor job of covering Swain during team fights.
Synergies between Swain and Cho'Gath
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Is Swain better when played alongside Cho'Gath?
There is no ideal champion pairing for Swain that will 100% of the time be his best ally. However, Cho'Gath is a very typical companion for Swain. By being on the same side as Swain, he lowers their win rate by -1.0% to 50.3%. This signals that there is only a small synergy between Swain and Cho'Gath that results in them performing worse together than alone.
Cho'Gath has a much lower diffuclty than Swain. That means Swain players don't need to be cautious when enlisting Cho'Gath teammates to play with, as they will require a much lower level of skill to be able to play well with you.
When playing cooperatively, you will likely see an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to to do a lot of AP damage. Together, these champs can blast through enemies with magic damage.
In contrast, by grouping Swain and Cho'Gath together, you will not be granting your other allies a lot of sustained damage output. We recommend you include other champs on your team that nullifies this relative gap in this pairing's playstyle.
Regardless of your Cho'Gath ally's ability, you need to focus on increasing your gold income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, 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
To truly master Swain to pair well with Cho'Gath during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League games, you should continue reading to gather some more tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and tips displayed here, you should grow your win rate by a lot.
The ideal items to have in your Swain and Cho'Gath synergy build consist of Rylai's Crystal Scepter, Riftmaker, and Liandry's Torment. When Swain bought at least these three finished items in his build, he did much better as an ally of Cho'Gath than with many other common item sets. In fact, Swain boasted an average win rate of 50.3% when playing alongside Cho'Gath with these items in his kit.
To have the best probability of coming out on top against your oponents, Swain players should take the Conqueror, Presence of Mind, Legend: Tenacity, Last Stand, Conditioning, and Overgrowth runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the rune builds we have analyed for this team composition, this set of runes resulted in the top win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 50.3% winrate overall.
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