Swain with Darius
How to Synergize Swain and Darius
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Swain Darius Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Swain and Darius
Tips for Playing as Swain with Darius
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 Darius Will Play
Noxian Guillotine does more damage the more attacks you can land prior to it. Use Noxian Might to deal maximum damage.
Darius benefits greatly from enhanced survivability. The longer you can prolong a fight, the more powerful he becomes.
Decimate is a powerful harassment ability. Strike an enemy from maximum range for the greatest effect.
Swain Darius Synergy Stats
How to Play with Darius as Swain in LoL
The Swain Darius synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Darius, 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 Darius. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This negative change shows that Darius helps Swain perform poorer in competitive LoL matches. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is only marginal.
When Swain plays on the same team as Darius, he observes a little increase in his complete damage output. This may indicate that Darius helps provide protection for him to dish out more damage or that his allyship also helps increase the match's duration. Similarly, when Swain is played together with Darius on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing alongside Darius.
Moreover, when Swain plays with Darius on the same team, he usually takes a little less damage than when he plays alone. Receiving not as much damage could mean that Darius does a decent job of protecting Swain during team fights.
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Is Swain better when played alongside Darius?
There is no top ally for Swain that will always be his best synergy. However, overall, Darius is a very typical teammate for Swain. By playing on the same side as Swain, he lowers their win rate by -0.7% to 50.6%. This signals that there is not really a strong bond between Swain and Darius that results in them performing worse together than without each other.
Darius has a much lower diffuclty than Swain. That means Swain players don't need to be very careful when enlisting Darius comrades to fight alongside, as they will require a much lower level of skill to work well with you.
Fighting cooperatively, you should expect to observe an overall large increase in your team’s ability to deal physical damage. Together, these two can tear through the other team with a lot of physcial damage.
Conversely, by grouping Swain and Darius together, you will not be granting your other teammates very much support. Make sure to pick other champions on your team that fills this relative disparity in their kit.
Regardless of your Darius ally's skill level, you should focus on increasing your gold income, outlasting your enemies, and taking down objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you will do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to truly master Swain in order to work well with Darius during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends games, you should continue reading to master some more tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and suggestions displayed here, you should grow your win rate by a lot.
The top items to have in your Swain and Darius synergy build include Rylai's Crystal Scepter, Solstice Sleigh, and Liandry's Torment. When Swain used at least these three items in his build, he did significantly better when fighting alongside Darius than with most other commonly used item sets. In fact, Swain had an average winrate of 50.6% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Darius with this build.
To have the highest likelihood of coming out on top against your oponents, Swain players should use the Summon Aery, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Scorch, Conditioning, and Overgrowth runes from the Sorcery and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the runes we have analyed for this champion pairing, this combo of runes yielded the top win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 50.6% win rate overall.
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