Swain with Kai'Sa
How to Synergize Swain and Kai'Sa
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Swain Kai'Sa Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Swain and Kai'Sa
Tips for Playing as Swain with Kai'Sa
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 Kai'Sa Will Play
Make sure to buy items that will evolve at least 1 or 2 of your spells.
Work with your teammates to set up your Ultimate and optimize damage with your passive.
Try to catch enemy carries alone to burst them with Icathian Rain.
Swain Kai'Sa Synergy Stats
How to Play with Kai'Sa as Swain in LoL
The Swain Kai'Sa synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Kai'Sa, 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 Kai'Sa. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Kai'Sa helps Swain perform poorer in ranked League of Legends rounds. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Swain is paired with Kai'Sa, he gets a barely noticable drop in his total damage dealt. This may indicate that Kai'Sa does not support by providing cover for him to deal more damage or that her participation also helps increase the match's duration. Similarly, when Swain is played together with Kai'Sa on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing alongside Kai'Sa.
Moreover, when Swain plays with Kai'Sa on the same team, he usually receives a little more damage than when he fights alone. Getting dealt more damage may mean that Kai'Sa does a poor job of covering Swain in teamfights.
Synergies between Swain and Kai'Sa
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Is Swain better when played alongside Kai'Sa?
There is no perfect ally for Swain that will always be his #1 synergy. However, Kai'Sa is a very bad ally for Swain. By being on the same side as Swain, she decreases their win rate by -3.2% to 48.1%. This proves that there is a terrible bond between Swain and Kai'Sa that allows them to perform not as well together than alone.
Kai'Sa has a lower difficulty than Swain. That means you don't need to be very careful when lining up Kai'Sa comrades to play with, as they will need a relatively low level of skill to fight well with you.
Playing cooperatively, Swain players should expect to witness an overall large increase in your team’s capability to deal magic damage. When paired, these two are able to dish out a surprising amount of magic type damage.
In contrast, by aligning Swain and Kai'Sa together, you probably will not be granting your side much crowd control. We recommend you bring other champs on your team that nullifies this disparity in this pairing's potential.
Regardless of your Kai'Sa ally's skill level, you should focus on increasing your income, warding to avoid ambushes, and clearing objectives. If you do this, you will do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to truly master Swain in order to pair well with Kai'Sa during both the lane and mid / late game phases of LoL, you should keep reading to gather a few extra lessons on this champion pairing. If you use the build and tips displayed above, you should increase your win rate by a lot.
The top items to prioritize in your Swain and Kai'Sa synergy build consist of Rylai's Crystal Scepter, Malignance, and Riftmaker. When Swain bought at least these three pieces in his build, he performed significantly better when paired up with Kai'Sa than with most other common item sets. In fact, Swain boasted an average winrate of 48.1% when playing alongside Kai'Sa with this build.
To have the greatest likelihood of coming out on top against your oponents, you should take the Conqueror, Presence of Mind, Legend: Tenacity, Last Stand, Conditioning, and Overgrowth runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations players picked for Swain and Kai'Sa pairings, this combination of runes yielded the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 48.1% winrate overall.
By default, tips, statistics, and builds on how to synergize Kai'Sa with Swain are given for all skill levels combined. If you would like to scope the statistics and builds to an individual skill level, you can use the selection menu located at the top of this page.