Swain with Nami
How to Synergize Swain and Nami
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Swain Nami Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Swain and Nami
Tips for Playing as Swain with Nami
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 Nami Will Play
Nami's ultimate can come in very handy for initiating on enemies who are far away.
Using Ebb and Flow during an engagement with enemy champions will help sway the battle in your favor.
Aqua Prison has a long cooldown, make sure to use it at the right moment.
Swain Nami Synergy Stats
How to Play with Nami as Swain in LoL
The Swain Nami synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Nami, 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 Nami. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This decrease shows that Nami helps Swain perform not as well in competitive League matches. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Swain is an ally to Nami, he gets a noticable increase in his complete damage output. This could indicate that Nami supports by providing protection for him to deal more damage or that her presence also helps increase the round's duration. Similarly, when Swain is played alongside Nami on the same side, 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 Nami.
Additionally, when Swain plays with Nami on the same team, he usually takes a little more damage than when he fights alone. Taking more damage may mean that Nami does a poor job of covering Swain during teamfights.
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Is Swain better when played alongside Nami?
There is no perfect champion pairing for Swain that will no matter what be his best synergy. However, Nami is a good companion for Swain. By locking into the same team as Swain, she increases their win rate by 1.1% to 52.4%. This demonstrates that there is a somewhat important bond between Swain and Nami that results in them performing better together than without each other.
Nami has a much lower diffuclty than Swain. That means Swain players don't need to be careful when finding Nami allies to play with, as they will have to have a much lower level of skill to be able to cooperate well with you.
When playing cooperatively, you will likely see an overall large increase in your team’s ability to deal magical damage. Together, these two can deal quite a lot of AP type damage.
Although, by pairing Swain and Nami together, you probably will not be providing your other allies a lot of anti-tank damage dealing potential. Make sure to include other champions on your team that helps cover this hole in this pairing's playstyle.
Regardless of your Nami ally's skill level, you should focus on maximizing your income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and clearing objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you will do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to truly master Swain in order to work well with Nami during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League rounds, you should continue reading to gather some more tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and stats displayed here, you will increase your win rate significantly.
The ideal finished items to have in your Swain and Nami synergy build include Rylai's Crystal Scepter, Malignance, and Liandry's Torment. When Swain used at least these three finished items in his build, he did a lot better as an ally of Nami than with many other common builds. In fact, Swain had an average winrate of 52.4% helping carry Nami with this build.
To have the highest likelihood of coming out on top against your oponents, Swain players should take the Summon Aery, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Scorch, Conditioning, and Overgrowth runes from the Sorcery and Resolve rune sets. Of all the rune combinations players picked for Swain and Nami pairings, this order of runes resulted in the top win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 52.4% win rate overall.
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