Swain with Graves
How to Synergize Swain and Graves
based on 6,641 Swain with Graves pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Swain Graves Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Swain and Graves
Tips for Playing as Swain with Graves
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 Graves Will Play
Smoke Screen can be used both to escape and to set up a kill.
Using Quickdraw to get into range and delivering a point blank Buckshot can do lots of damage.
Swain Graves Synergy Stats
How to Play with Graves as Swain in LoL
The Swain Graves synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Graves, 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 Graves. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Graves helps Swain perform not as well in competitive League matches. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is only marginal.
When Swain is paired with Graves, he sees a little drop in his total damage dealt. This could signal that Graves does not help protection for him to deal more damage or that his participation also helps increase the round's duration. Similarly, when Swain is played together with Graves 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 synergisticly with Graves.
Additionally, when Swain plays with Graves on the same side, he usually takes a little less damage than when he plays alone. Taking not as much damage could indicate that Graves does a decent job of covering Swain in team fights.
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Is Swain better when played alongside Graves?
There is no one best ally for Swain that will always be his ideal ally. Yet, overall, Graves is a very typical companion for Swain. By locking into the same team as Swain, he decreases their win rate by -0.3% to 51.0%. This proves that there is not really a strong strategic relationship between Swain and Graves that allows them to perform worse together than alone.
Graves has a much lower diffuclty than Swain. That means Swain players don't need to be cautious when arranging Graves comrades to fight alongside, as they will require a much lower level of skill to cooperate well with you.
Playing together, Swain players should witness an overall large increase in your team’s ability to deal magical damage. When paired, these two are able to dish out a surprising amount of magic type damage.
Conversely, by grouping Swain and Graves together, you will not be giving your other teammates very much utility. We recommend you bring other champions on your team that fills this gap in this pairing's capabilities.
Regardless of the ability of your Graves ally, you need to focus on increasing your income, outlasting your enemies, and taking down objectives. If you do this, you should do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To truly master Swain in order to synergize with Graves during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends games, you should continue reading to master additional tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you mind the build and stats displayed above, you will increase your win rate by a lot.
The ideal finished items to include in your Swain and Graves synergy build consist of Rylai's Crystal Scepter, Cosmic Drive, and Liandry's Torment. When Swain used at least these three great items in his build, he did a lot better as an ally of Graves than with most other commonly used item sets. In fact, Swain had an average win rate of 51.0% when playing alongside Graves with this build.
To have the highest probability of beating your oponents, you should equip the Summon Aery, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Scorch, Conditioning, and Overgrowth runes from the Sorcery and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations players chose for Swain and Graves pairings, this mix of runes resulted in the top win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 51.0% winrate overall.
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