Swain with Kog'Maw
How to Synergize Swain and Kog'Maw
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Swain Kog'Maw Synergy Summary
Best Swain vs Kog'Maw Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Swain and Kog'Maw
Tips for Playing as Swain with Kog'Maw
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 Kog'Maw Will Play
Make the most out of your Icathian Surprise.
Use Void Ooze to set up a perfect Living Artillery.
Kog'Maw can outrange most champions with his Bio-Arcane Barrage ability.
Swain Kog'Maw Synergy Stats
How to Play with Kog'Maw as Swain in LoL
The Swain Kog'Maw synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Kog'Maw, 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 Kog'Maw. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This decrease shows that Kog'Maw helps Swain perform not as well in ranked League of Legends matches. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Swain is an ally to Kog'Maw, he observes a little decrease in his complete damage dealt. This difference could demonstrate that Kog'Maw does not help protection for him to deal more damage or that his allyship also helps extend the round's duration. Similarly, when Swain is played with Kog'Maw on the same team, 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 Kog'Maw.
Moreover, when Swain plays with Kog'Maw on the same team, he often takes a little more damage than when he fights alone. Getting dealt more damage could indicate that Kog'Maw does a poor job of protecting Swain in team fights.
Synergies between Swain and Kog'Maw
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Is Swain better when played alongside Kog'Maw?
There is no top ally for Swain that will no matter what be his ideal teammate. Yet, Kog'Maw is a not very good ally for Swain. By being on the same team as Swain, he decreases their win rate by -2.8% to 48.5%. This shows that there is a negative bond between Swain and Kog'Maw that results in them performing worse together than alone.
Kog'Maw has a lower difficulty than Swain. That means Swain players don't need to be very careful when enlisting Kog'Maw teammates to play with, as they will need a relatively low level of skill to be able to cooperate well with you.
Fighting together, you will likely see an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to deal magic damage. Together, these champions can blast through enemies with magic damage.
Although, by grouping Swain and Kog'Maw together, you probably will not be granting your team enough utility. Plan to include other champions on your team that fills this relative gap in their playstyle.
Regardless of the skill of your Kog'Maw teammate, you need to focus on increasing your income, warding to avoid ambushes, and taking down objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you should do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Swain in order to synergize with Kog'Maw during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League matches, you should continue reading to master some more tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and suggestions shown above, you will increase your win rate significantly.
The top finished items to have in your Swain and Kog'Maw synergy build consist of Rylai's Crystal Scepter, Zhonya's Hourglass, and Liandry's Torment. When Swain combined at least these three finished items in his build, he did much better as an ally of Kog'Maw than with most other commonly used item sets. In fact, Swain boasted an average winrate of 48.5% helping carry Kog'Maw with this build.
To have the greatest chance of coming out on top against your oponents, Swain players should equip the Conqueror, Presence of Mind, Legend: Tenacity, Last Stand, Conditioning, and Overgrowth runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Of all the rune sets that we analyzed for Swain and Kog'Maw pairings, this combination of runes resulted in the top win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 48.5% win rate overall.
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