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.
The Swain Lillia synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Lillia, 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 Lillia. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Lillia helps Swain perform not as well in competitive LoL rounds. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Swain plays on the same team as Lillia, he sees a barely noticable drop in his total damage output. This change could demonstrate that Lillia doesn't help protection for him to deal more damage or that her presence on the team also helps increase the round's duration. Similarly, when Swain is played together with Lillia on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing synergisticly with Lillia.
Moreover, when Swain plays with Lillia on the same side, he often takes a little more damage than when he fights alone. Receiving more damage could indicate that Lillia does a poor job of protecting Swain during teamfights.
There is no universally accepted best companion for Swain that will always be his #1 synergy. Yet, overall, Lillia is a top-tier teammate for Swain. By playing on the same team as Swain, she raises their win rate by 3.2% to 54.5%. This shows that there is an important strategic relationship between Swain and Lillia that allows them to perform at the top of their game together than alone.
Lillia has a lower difficulty than Swain. That means Swain players don't need to be cautious when finding Lillia comrades to play with, as they will have to have a relatively low level of skill to cooperate well with you.
Playing on the same side, you should see an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to deal magical damage. When paired, these champions are able to dish out a surprising amount of magic type damage.
Conversely, by grouping Swain and Lillia together, you may not be providing your team much AD. We recommend you include other champs on your team that offsets this relative gap in their kit.
Regardless of your Lillia ally's skill level, you should focus on increasing your income, warding to avoid ambushes, and clearing objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you should do well anyway.
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Swain in order to work well with Lillia during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends rounds, you should keep reading to gather a few extra tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and tips shown above, you should grow your win rate by a lot.
The top items to have in your Swain and Lillia synergy build consist of Frozen Heart, Rylai's Crystal Scepter, and Liandry's Torment. When Swain combined at least these three pieces in his build, he performed a lot better when paired up with Lillia than with most other commonly used builds. In fact, Swain had an average winrate of 54.5% when playing alongside Lillia with this build.
To have the highest chance of beating your oponents, Swain players should equip the Summon Aery, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Scorch, Conditioning, and Overgrowth runes from the Sorcery and Resolve rune sets. Of all the runes players picked for Swain and Lillia pairings, this combination of runes yielded the highest win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 54.5% winrate overall.
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