Swain with Gragas
How to Synergize Swain and Gragas
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Swain Gragas Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Swain and Gragas
Tips for Playing as Swain with Gragas
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 Gragas Will Play
Try to knock enemies back into your towers with Explosive Cask.
Try to combo Body Slam with Explosive Cask to set up kills for your team.
The damage reduction from Drunken Rage is applied when you start drinking, try to use it when you see damage coming your way.
Swain Gragas Synergy Stats
How to Play with Gragas as Swain in LoL
The Swain Gragas synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Gragas, 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 Gragas. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This decrease shows that Gragas helps Swain perform worse in ranked League of Legends matches. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Swain is paired with Gragas, he observes a small decrease in his complete damage dealt. This difference may indicate that Gragas does not support by providing cover for him to deal more damage or that his participation also helps increase the game's duration. Similarly, when Swain is played with Gragas 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 alongside Gragas.
Moreover, when Swain plays with Gragas on the same team, he on average receives a little more damage than when he plays alone. Getting dealt more damage may indicate that Gragas does a poor job of covering Swain in team fights.
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Is Swain better when played alongside Gragas?
There is no universally accepted best companion for Swain that will 100% of the time be his top ally. Yet, overall, Gragas is a terrible teammate for Swain. By being on the same side as Swain, he decreases their win rate by -3.4% to 47.9%. This demonstrates that there is a terrible synergy between Swain and Gragas that results in them performing worse together than without each other.
Gragas has a much lower diffuclty than Swain. That means Swain players don't need to be careful when finding Gragas teammates to play with, as they will need a much lower level of skill to work well with you.
When playing together, you should observe an overall large increase in your team’s ability to deal magical damage. Together, these two are able to dish out a surprising amount of magic type damage.
In contrast, by grouping Swain and Gragas together, you may not be providing your other allies enough attack damage. Make sure to pick other champs on your team that fills this disparity in their kit.
Regardless of the ability of your Gragas ally, you should focus on maximizing your gold income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and clearing objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you should do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Swain to work well with Gragas during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends games, you should keep reading to master a few extra tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and suggestions displayed above, you will grow your win rate significantly.
The most crucial items to have in your Swain and Gragas synergy build include Rylai's Crystal Scepter, Zhonya's Hourglass, and Liandry's Torment. When Swain used at least these three items in his build, he performed significantly better when paired up with Gragas than with many other common builds. In fact, Swain boasted an average winrate of 47.9% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Gragas with this build.
To have the best likelihood of beating your oponents, Swain players should equip the Electrocute, Cheap Shot, Eyeball Collection, Ultimate Hunter, Coup de Grace, and Presence of Mind runes from the Domination and Precision rune sets. Out of all the rune builds we have analyed for this team composition, this order of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 47.9% win rate overall.
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