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.
Calm down, breathe, and focus.
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The Swain Hwei synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Hwei, 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 Hwei. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This negative change shows that Hwei helps Swain perform worse in ranked LoL rounds. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is only marginal.
When Swain is paired with Hwei, he observes a little decrease in his complete damage dealt. This may signal that Hwei does not help cover for him to dish out more damage or that their allyship also helps extend the match's duration. Similarly, when Swain is played with Hwei 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 with Hwei.
Moreover, when Swain plays with Hwei on the same side, he on average receives a little more damage than when he fights alone. Getting dealt more damage may indicate that Hwei does a poor job of covering Swain during teamfights.
There is no perfect champion pairing for Swain that will no matter what be his best ally. Yet, Hwei is a very bad companion for Swain. By locking into the same team as Swain, they decreases their win rate by -4.5% to 46.8%. This demonstrates that there is a terrible bond between Swain and Hwei that allows them to perform worse together than alone.
Hwei has a greater difficulty than Swain. That means Swain players must be careful when lining up Hwei allies to fight alongside, as they will require a greater level of skill to be able to cooperate well with you.
Playing cooperatively, you should expect to see an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to deal magical damage. Together, these champs are able to dish out a surprising amount of magic type damage.
In contrast, by aligning Swain and Hwei together, you will not be giving your other allies enough engage. We recommend you pick other champs on your team that neutralizes this relative disparity in their potential.
Regardless of the ability of your Hwei ally, you should focus on maximizing your gold income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and clearing objectives. If you do this, you will do well anyway.
To learn all of the intricacies of Swain to work well with Hwei during both the laning and mid / late game phases of LoL, you should keep reading to master some more tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you use the build and suggestions displayed above, you should grow your win rate by a lot.
The most important finished items to have in your Swain and Hwei synergy build consist of Rylai's Crystal Scepter, Zhonya's Hourglass, and Solstice Sleigh. When Swain included at least these three finished items in his build, he did a lot better when fighting alongside Hwei than with many other commonly used builds. In fact, Swain had an average win rate of 46.8% when playing alongside Hwei with this build.
To have the best chance of crushing your oponents, you should use the Conqueror, Presence of Mind, Legend: Tenacity, Last Stand, Conditioning, and Overgrowth runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Of all the rune combinations we have analyed for Swain and Hwei pairings, this blending of runes yielded the top win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 46.8% winrate overall.
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