Swain with Gnar
How to Synergize Swain and Gnar
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Swain Gnar Synergy Summary
Best Swain vs Gnar Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Swain and Gnar
Tips for Playing as Swain with Gnar
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 Gnar Will Play
Position yourself next to walls to bait your enemies into getting stunned by your ultimate.
Know your strengths! Mini Gnar is fast, squishy, and has high sustained damage. Mega Gnar is slow, tough, and has high burst.
Managing your Rage is very important. Try to time out your transformations so you can get maximum benefit from both forms.
Swain Gnar Synergy Stats
How to Play with Gnar as Swain in LoL
The Swain Gnar synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Gnar, 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 Gnar. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Gnar helps Swain perform worse in competitive League games. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Swain is paired with Gnar, he sees a little decrease in his total damage output. This change could demonstrate that Gnar doesn't help protection for him to dish out more damage or that his participation also helps increase the match's duration. Similarly, when Swain is played alongside Gnar on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing alongside Gnar.
Moreover, when Swain plays with Gnar on the same team, he usually receives a little less damage than when he plays alone. Getting dealt not as much damage could mean that Gnar does a decent job of covering Swain in team fights.
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Is Swain better when played alongside Gnar?
There is no universally accepted best champion pairing for Swain that will no matter what be his #1 teammate. However, Gnar is a very typical teammate for Swain. By locking into the same team as Swain, he increases their win rate by 0.2% to 51.5%. This signals that there is only a small bond between Swain and Gnar that results in them performing stronger together than alone.
Gnar has a lower difficulty than Swain. That means Swain players don't need to be cautious when arranging Gnar allies to fight alongside, as they will need a relatively low level of skill to play well with you.
Working together, Swain players will likely see an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to deal magic damage. Combined, these champions can deal quite a lot of AP type damage.
In contrast, by bringing Swain and Gnar together, you probably will not be giving your team much anti-tank damage dealing potential. Plan to bring other champions on your team that nullifies this disparity in their abilities.
Regardless of the ability of your Gnar teammate, you need to focus on maximizing your income, outlasting your enemies, and taking down objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you should do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To learn all of the intricacies of Swain in order to work well with Gnar during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends matches, you should continue reading to gather some more tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and tips presented above, you will increase your win rate by a lot.
The top finished items to focus on in your Swain and Gnar synergy build consist of Rylai's Crystal Scepter, Zhonya's Hourglass, and Liandry's Torment. When Swain bought at least these three great items in his build, he did much better when fighting alongside Gnar than with most other commonly used builds. In fact, Swain had an average winrate of 51.5% when playing alongside Gnar with this build.
To have the best probability 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. Of all the rune builds we have analyed for this champion pairing, this composite of runes yielded the best win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 51.5% winrate overall.
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