Swain with Neeko
How to Synergize Swain and Neeko
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Swain Neeko Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Swain and Neeko
Tips for Playing as Swain with Neeko
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 Neeko Will Play
You can set her passive to use hotkeys in the options menu. The default is Shift+F1~F5
Try to use Inherent Glamour sparingly, ineffective uses will put enemies on the alert.
Swain Neeko Synergy Stats
How to Play with Neeko as Swain in LoL
The Swain Neeko synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Neeko, 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 Neeko. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This decrease shows that Neeko helps Swain perform not as well in ranked LoL rounds. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is only marginal.
When Swain is paired with Neeko, he observes a small increase in his total damage output. This could indicate that Neeko supports by providing protection for him to deal more damage or that her participation also helps increase the match's duration. Similarly, when Swain is played alongside Neeko on the same team, 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 Neeko.
Additionally, when Swain plays with Neeko on the same team, he usually receives a little more damage than when he plays alone. Taking more damage could indicate that Neeko does a poor job of covering Swain during teamfights.
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Is Swain better when played alongside Neeko?
There is no ideal champion pairing for Swain that will 100% of the time be his best teammate. Yet, Neeko is a very typical ally for Swain. By playing on the same side as Swain, she decreases their win rate by -1.0% to 50.3%. This demonstrates that there is not really a strong bond between Swain and Neeko that allows them to perform not as well together than alone.
Neeko has a much lower diffuclty than Swain. That means Swain players don't need to be cautious when finding Neeko comrades to play with, as they will require a much lower level of skill to be able to cooperate well with you.
Fighting on the same side, you should witness an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to to do a lot of AP damage. When paired, these two are able to dish out a surprising amount of magic type damage.
Although, by pairing Swain and Neeko together, you will not be providing your team very much AD. Make sure to include other champions on your team that neutralizes this gap in this pairing's playstyle.
Regardless of your Neeko ally's ability, you should focus on maximizing your gold income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and taking down objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you should do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Swain to synergize with Neeko during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League matches, you should continue reading to master additional lessons on this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and suggestions shown here, you will increase your win rate by a lot.
The best finished items to focus on in your Swain and Neeko synergy build include Malignance, Zhonya's Hourglass, and Liandry's Torment. When Swain combined at least these three finished items in his build, he did much better as an ally of Neeko than with most other common builds. In fact, Swain had an average winrate of 50.3% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Neeko with this build.
To have the greatest likelihood of beating your oponents, Swain players should equip the Electrocute, Cheap Shot, Eyeball Collection, Ultimate Hunter, Coup de Grace, and Presence of Mind runes from the Domination and Precision rune sets. Out of all the runes players chose for this champion pairing, this sequence of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 50.3% winrate overall.
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