Swain with LeBlanc
How to Synergize Swain and LeBlanc
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Swain LeBlanc Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Swain and LeBlanc
Tips for Playing as Swain with LeBlanc
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 LeBlanc Will Play
Using Distortion can help your positioning to land Ethereal Chains.
You can chain Sigil of Malice and Ethereal Chains to prevent characters with blink from escaping for up to 4 seconds.
Distortion allows you to be aggressive with your other spells while being able to return to safety.
Swain LeBlanc Synergy Stats
How to Play with LeBlanc as Swain in LoL
The Swain LeBlanc synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with LeBlanc, 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 LeBlanc. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that LeBlanc helps Swain perform poorer in competitive League rounds. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Swain is an ally to LeBlanc, he sees a small decrease in his total damage dealt. This change may signal that LeBlanc does not provide protection 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 together with LeBlanc on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays without LeBlanc. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing alongside LeBlanc.
Moreover, when Swain plays with LeBlanc on the same side, he typically receives a little more damage than when he plays alone. Taking more damage could mean that LeBlanc does a poor job of covering Swain during teamfights.
Synergies between Swain and LeBlanc
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Is Swain better when played alongside LeBlanc?
There is no ideal companion for Swain that will 100% of the time be his top synergy. Yet, overall, LeBlanc is a terrible teammate for Swain. By locking into the same team as Swain, she lowers their win rate by -3.4% to 47.9%. This clearly indicates that there is a terrible strategic relationship between Swain and LeBlanc that results in them performing not as well together than without each other.
LeBlanc has a greater difficulty than Swain. That means Swain players must be cautious when arranging LeBlanc allies to go into battle on the same side as, as they will require a greater level of skill to be able to fight well with you.
Working together, you should expect to observe an overall large increase in your team’s ability to deal magical damage. Together, these champions can blast through enemies with magic damage.
Conversely, by aligning Swain and LeBlanc together, you may not be providing your other allies enough attack damage. Make sure to have other champions on your team that fills this relative hole in this pairing's potential.
Regardless of the ability of your LeBlanc teammate, you need to focus on maximizing your income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and clearing objectives. If you heed this simple advice, 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 LeBlanc during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends games, you should keep reading to pick up additional tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and suggestions shown above, you will grow your win rate significantly.
The most important items to include in your Swain and LeBlanc synergy build consist of Rylai's Crystal Scepter, Malignance, and Liandry's Torment. When Swain incorporated at least these three items in his build, he did a lot better when fighting alongside LeBlanc than with most other commonly used item sets. In fact, Swain had an average winrate of 47.9% when playing alongside LeBlanc with these items in his kit.
To have the greatest probability of vanquishing your oponents, Swain players should take 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 we have analyed for this team composition, this sequence of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 47.9% win rate overall.
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