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.
Cleavers are a powerful tool for killing neutral monsters. Instead of returning to base, farm neutral monsters until your ultimate can heal you.
A well-timed Sadism can bait enemy champions into attacking you even when they lack the damage to finish you.
Spirit Visage will increase the healing done by your ultimate and lower cooldowns on all of your abilities.
The Swain Dr. Mundo synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Dr. Mundo, 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 Dr. Mundo. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This decrease shows that Dr. Mundo helps Swain perform not as well in ranked League matches. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Swain plays on the same team as Dr. Mundo, he observes a barely noticable drop in his total damage output. This difference may demonstrate that Dr. Mundo does not help protection for him to deal more damage or that his presence also helps extend the round's duration. Similarly, when Swain is played with Dr. Mundo 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 Dr. Mundo.
Moreover, when Swain plays with Dr. Mundo on the same team, he typically takes a little less damage than when he plays alone. Getting dealt not as much damage may mean that Dr. Mundo does a decent job of covering Swain during team fights.
There is no perfect synergy for Swain that will 100% of the time be his top synergy. Yet, overall, Dr. Mundo is a decent companion for Swain. By being on the same side as Swain, he improves their win rate by 1.0% to 52.3%. This clearly indicates that there is pretty good strategic relationship between Swain and Dr. Mundo that results in them performing stronger together than alone.
Dr. Mundo has a much lower diffuclty than Swain. That means Swain players don't need to be careful when arranging Dr. Mundo allies to go into battle on the same side as, as they will require a much lower level of skill to be able to work well with you.
Working together, Swain players will likely see an overall large increase in your team’s capability to to do a lot of AP damage. Together, these champions are able to dish out a surprising amount of magic type damage.
Conversely, by grouping Swain and Dr. Mundo together, you may not be giving your other allies very much anti-tank damage dealing potential. Make sure to bring other champs on your team that offsets this hole in this pairing's capabilities.
Regardless of the skill of your Dr. Mundo teammate, you should focus on maximizing your income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and clearing objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you should do well, regardless.
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Swain in order to work well with Dr. Mundo during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends games, you should continue reading to learn a few extra tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and suggestions displayed here, you should grow your win rate by a lot.
The most crucial items to have in your Swain and Dr. Mundo synergy build consist of Rylai's Crystal Scepter, Zhonya's Hourglass, and Zaz'Zak's Realmspike. When Swain bought at least these three items in his build, he did much better when paired up with Dr. Mundo than with many other commonly used item sets. In fact, Swain had an average win rate of 52.3% helping carry Dr. Mundo with these items in his kit.
To have the greatest likelihood of crushing 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 sets players chose for this champion pairing, this order of runes resulted in the top win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 52.3% winrate overall.
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