Swain with Kalista
How to Synergize Swain and Kalista
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Swain Kalista Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Swain and Kalista
Tips for Playing as Swain with Kalista
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 Kalista Will Play
Rend is a valuable last hitting aid, since its cooldown resets if it kills a target.
Entering a move order once to trigger Martial Poise will not clear Kalista's basic attack target.
Due to her passive, Kalista's Move Speed is effectively increased by Attack Speed.
Swain Kalista Synergy Stats
How to Play with Kalista as Swain in LoL
The Swain Kalista synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Kalista, 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 Kalista. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Kalista helps Swain perform worse in ranked League of Legends matches. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is only marginal.
When Swain tries to synergize with Kalista, he gets a barely noticable drop in his full damage dealt. This difference could indicate that Kalista doesn't help cover for him to dish out more damage or that her presence on the team also helps extend the game's duration. Similarly, when Swain is played alongside Kalista on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing alongside Kalista.
Additionally, when Swain plays with Kalista on the same team, he typically takes a little less damage than when he plays alone. Taking not as much damage may mean that Kalista does a decent job of covering Swain in teamfights.
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Is Swain better when played alongside Kalista?
There is no one best champion pairing for Swain that will always be his ideal ally. Yet, Kalista is a relatively poor companion for Swain. By locking into the same side as Swain, she drops their win rate by -2.1% to 49.2%. This demonstrates that there is a bad bond between Swain and Kalista that allows them to perform not as well together than without each other.
Kalista has a lower difficulty than Swain. That means Swain players don't need to be cautious when arranging Kalista comrades to go into battle on the same side as, as they will require a lower level of skill to do well with you.
When playing cooperatively, you should see an overall large increase in your team’s ability to deal magical damage. Combined, these two can deal quite a lot of AP type damage.
Although, by bringing Swain and Kalista together, you probably will not be providing your other allies enough support. Make sure to pick other champs on your team that neutralizes this relative gap in their playstyle.
Regardless of the skill of your Kalista teammate, you should focus on maximizing your gold income, outlasting your enemies, and clearing objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you will do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To learn all of the intricacies of Swain to work well with Kalista during both the lane and mid / late game phases of LoL rounds, you should keep reading to pick up some more tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you mind the build and stats displayed above, you will grow your win rate by a lot.
The most crucial finished items to have in your Swain and Kalista synergy build consist of Rylai's Crystal Scepter, Zaz'Zak's Realmspike, and Liandry's Torment. When Swain bought at least these three finished items in his build, he performed significantly better when fighting alongside Kalista than with most other typical item sets. In fact, Swain had an average win rate of 49.2% when playing alongside Kalista with these items in his kit.
To have the highest chance of annihilating your oponents, you should equip 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 sets players chose for this champion pairing, this mixture of runes yielded the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 49.2% winrate overall.
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