Swain with Irelia
How to Synergize Swain and Irelia
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Swain Irelia Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Swain and Irelia
Tips for Playing as Swain with Irelia
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 Irelia Will Play
Defiant Dance is not interrupted by crowd control, try timing it for incoming disables.
Flawless Duet does not have a maximum travel distance, try using it in creative ways.
Use Bladesurge to cover great distances by targeting low life minions on your way to champion targets.
Swain Irelia Synergy Stats
How to Play with Irelia as Swain in LoL
The Swain Irelia synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Irelia, 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 Irelia. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This fall shows that Irelia helps Swain perform not as well in ranked LoL rounds. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is only marginal.
When Swain is an ally to Irelia, he gets a little decrease in his complete damage output. This could demonstrate that Irelia doesn't help cover for him to deal more damage or that her presence also helps increase the match's duration. Similarly, when Swain is played alongside Irelia on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays without Irelia. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing alongside Irelia.
Moreover, when Swain plays with Irelia on the same side, he on average receives a little less damage than when he fights alone. Getting dealt not as much damage may mean that Irelia does a decent job of protecting Swain in teamfights.
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Is Swain better when played alongside Irelia?
There is no ideal synergy for Swain that will always be his top synergy. Yet, overall, Irelia is a very typical ally for Swain. By being on the same side as Swain, she lowers their win rate by -0.6% to 50.7%. This shows that there is not really a strong synergy between Swain and Irelia that results in them performing worse together than without each other.
Irelia has a much lower diffuclty than Swain. That means Swain players don't need to be careful when enlisting Irelia teammates to fight alongside, as they will have to have a much lower level of skill to do well with you.
Playing together, Swain players should expect to observe an overall large increase in your team’s ability to to do a lot of AP damage. Combined, these champs can blast through enemies with magic damage.
In contrast, by bringing Swain and Irelia together, you will not be giving your team enough utility. Plan to include other champions on your team that neutralizes this gap in their kit.
Regardless of your Irelia ally's ability, you should focus on increasing your income, warding to avoid ambushes, 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 learn all of the intricacies of Swain to synergize with Irelia during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends matches, you should continue reading to master some more tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and suggestions presented here, you should grow your win rate significantly.
The most important items to build first in your Swain and Irelia synergy build consist of Rylai's Crystal Scepter, Zhonya's Hourglass, and Liandry's Torment. When Swain combined at least these three pieces in his build, he performed a lot better when fighting alongside Irelia than with most other common builds. In fact, Swain had an average win rate of 50.7% when playing alongside Irelia with these items in his kit.
To have the greatest chance of defeating your oponents, Swain players 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 players chose for this team composition, this combo of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 50.7% win rate overall.
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