Swain with Leona
How to Synergize Swain and Leona
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Swain Leona Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Swain and Leona
Tips for Playing as Swain with Leona
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 Leona Will Play
Shield of Daybreak and Zenith Blade form a powerful offensive combo.
Lead the charge and mark your foes with Sunlight before your allies deal damage.
You can absorb a huge amount of damage using Eclipse, but you must stay near enemies to gain the bonus duration.
Swain Leona Synergy Stats
How to Play with Leona as Swain in LoL
The Swain Leona synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Leona, 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 Leona. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This negative change shows that Leona helps Swain perform poorer in competitive League matches. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Swain is paired with Leona, he sees a big jump in his total damage output. This may demonstrate that Leona provides cover for him to deal more damage or that her presence on the team also helps extend the game's duration. Similarly, when Swain is played with Leona on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays without Leona. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing alongside Leona.
Moreover, when Swain plays with Leona on the same team, he usually receives a little more damage than when he fights alone. Receiving more damage may mean that Leona does a poor job of protecting Swain in team fights.
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Is Swain better when played alongside Leona?
There is no universally accepted best ally for Swain that will always be his #1 synergy. However, overall, Leona is a great ally for Swain. By being on the same team as Swain, she raises their win rate by 4.3% to 55.6%. This signals that there is a very strong bond between Swain and Leona that allows them to perform stronger together than without each other.
Leona has a much lower diffuclty than Swain. That means you don't need to be careful when lining up Leona teammates to play with, as they will have to have a much lower level of skill to be able to do well with you.
Playing cooperatively, you will likely see an overall large increase in your team’s capability to tank a lot of damage. When paired, these champions will be a great protective duo.
In contrast, by pairing Swain and Leona together, you may not be providing your other allies enough attack damage. We recommend you include other champions on your team that neutralizes this disparity in their abilities.
Regardless of the skill of your Leona teammate, you should focus on maximizing your income, outlasting your enemies, and clearing objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you should do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To truly master Swain to synergize with Leona during both the laning and mid / late game phases of LoL matches, you should keep reading to gather some more tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you use the build and tips shown here, you should grow your win rate by a lot.
The most crucial items to have in your Swain and Leona synergy build include Malignance, Riftmaker, and Liandry's Torment. When Swain incorporated at least these three great items in his build, he did significantly better as an ally of Leona than with many other typical builds. In fact, Swain boasted an average win rate of 55.6% helping carry Leona with these items in his kit.
To have the best probability of crushing your oponents, Swain players should use the Summon Aery, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Scorch, Conditioning, and Overgrowth runes from the Sorcery and Resolve rune sets. Of all the rune sets we have analyed for this team composition, this set of runes yielded the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 55.6% winrate overall.
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