Swain with Katarina
How to Synergize Swain and Katarina
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Swain Katarina Synergy Summary
Best Swain vs Katarina Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Swain and Katarina
Tips for Playing as Swain with Katarina
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 Katarina Will Play
Picking up Daggers will significantly reduce Shunpo's cooldown.
Try waiting until the other team is distracted with fighting your team, and use Shunpo to teleport into the fray and unleash a devastating Death Lotus.
Using Shunpo on an allied Champion, Dagger, or minion can be a great escape tactic.
Swain Katarina Synergy Stats
How to Play with Katarina as Swain in LoL
The Swain Katarina synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Katarina, 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 Katarina. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Katarina helps Swain perform poorer in ranked League rounds. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is only marginal.
When Swain is paired with Katarina, he observes a little decrease in his total damage dealt. This could indicate that Katarina does not support by providing protection for him to deal more damage or that her support also helps extend the game's duration. Similarly, when Swain is played together with Katarina on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays without Katarina. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing alongside Katarina.
Moreover, when Swain plays with Katarina on the same team, he on average receives a little less damage than when he fights alone. Taking not as much damage may mean that Katarina does a decent job of protecting Swain in team fights.
Synergies between Swain and Katarina
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Is Swain better when played alongside Katarina?
There is no perfect companion for Swain that will no matter what be his top teammate. However, overall, Katarina is a relatively poor teammate for Swain. By being on the same team as Swain, she lowers their win rate by -2.8% to 48.5%. This shows that there is a bad bond between Swain and Katarina that allows them to perform not as well together than alone.
Katarina has a lower difficulty than Swain. That means Swain players don't need to be cautious when enlisting Katarina teammates to fight alongside, as they will have to have a lower level of skill to do well with you.
Playing together, Swain players should see an overall large increase in your team’s capability to to do a lot of AP damage. When paired, these champs can deal quite a lot of AP type damage.
In contrast, by aligning Swain and Katarina together, you will not be providing your team a lot of utility. Plan to bring other champions on your team that nullifies this gap in their abilities.
Regardless of the skill of your Katarina ally, you should focus on increasing your income, outlasting your enemies, and taking down objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you will 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 Katarina during both the early game and mid / late game phases of LoL, you should keep reading to gather a few extra lessons on this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and tips shown above, you will increase your win rate by a lot.
The most crucial items to have in your Swain and Katarina synergy build consist of Rylai's Crystal Scepter, Riftmaker, and Liandry's Torment. When Swain used at least these three pieces in his build, he did a lot better as an ally of Katarina than with many other commonly used item sets. In fact, Swain had an average winrate of 48.5% helping carry Katarina with this build.
To have the greatest likelihood of beating 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 used for Swain and Katarina pairings, this combo of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 48.5% win rate overall.
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