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.
If you have trouble landing Prismatic Barrier, remember that it returns to you after it reaches max range. Try positioning yourself to hit your allies with its return trip.
Lux has great zone control abilities. Try to set up Lucent Singularity to prevent an enemy's advance or escape.
Lucent Singularity is a great scouting tool. Try throwing it into brush before walking into it to check for ambushes.
The Swain Lux synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Lux, 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 Lux. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This negative change shows that Lux helps Swain perform not as well in competitive League rounds. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Swain is an ally to Lux, he sees a little increase in his total damage dealt. This could indicate that Lux supports by providing cover for him to deal more damage or that her participation also helps extend the match's duration. Similarly, when Swain is played with Lux on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing synergisticly with Lux.
Moreover, when Swain plays with Lux on the same side, he usually takes a little more damage than when he fights alone. Getting dealt more damage could mean that Lux does a poor job of covering Swain during teamfights.
There is no one best ally for Swain that will no matter what be his top teammate. However, overall, Lux is a very typical ally for Swain. By playing on the same side as Swain, she decreases their win rate by -0.6% to 50.7%. This signals that there is only a small bond between Swain and Lux that allows them to perform not as well together than without each other.
Lux has a much lower diffuclty than Swain. That means you don't need to be very careful when lining up Lux allies to fight alongside, as they will need a much lower level of skill to play well with you.
Working together, you will likely witness an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to deal magic damage. Combined, these two can blast through enemies with magic damage.
In contrast, by aligning Swain and Lux together, you probably will not be providing your team much AD. Make sure to include other champions on your team that offsets this relative gap in this pairing's kit.
Regardless of the ability of your Lux teammate, you should focus on maximizing your gold income, outlasting your enemies, and clearing objectives. If you do this, you will do well, regardless.
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Swain in order to work well with Lux during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League rounds, you should keep reading to learn a few extra tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and tips shown here, you will increase your win rate significantly.
The top items to have in your Swain and Lux synergy build include Rylai's Crystal Scepter, Malignance, and Riftmaker. When Swain used at least these three items in his build, he performed a lot better when paired up with Lux than with most other commonly used item sets. In fact, Swain had an average winrate of 50.7% when playing alongside Lux with this build.
To have the greatest chance of crushing your oponents, Swain players should equip the Summon Aery, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Scorch, Conditioning, and Overgrowth runes from the Sorcery and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the rune sets we have analyed for this champion pairing, this mixture of runes resulted in the top win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 50.7% win rate overall.
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