Swain with Nidalee
How to Synergize Swain and Nidalee
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Swain Nidalee Synergy Summary
Best Swain vs Nidalee Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Swain and Nidalee
Tips for Playing as Swain with Nidalee
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 Nidalee Will Play
Use brush to your advantage! Moving in and out of brush can heavily alter your effectiveness in battle.
Start team fights by harassing with your Javelin Toss, and then switch to cougar form to chase down Hunted targets.
Bushwhack traps deal damage based on their victim's current Health. Set them up in your team's backline before fights break out during sieges to help your team deal damage to the enemy frontline.
Swain Nidalee Synergy Stats
How to Play with Nidalee as Swain in LoL
The Swain Nidalee synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Nidalee, 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 Nidalee. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This negative change shows that Nidalee helps Swain perform poorer in ranked LoL rounds. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is only marginal.
When Swain is paired with Nidalee, he gets a little decrease in his total damage dealt. This change could indicate that Nidalee does not support by providing protection for him to dish out more damage or that her allyship also helps extend the match's duration. Similarly, when Swain is played with Nidalee on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays without Nidalee. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing alongside Nidalee.
Additionally, when Swain plays with Nidalee on the same team, he on average takes a little less damage than when he plays alone. Getting dealt not as much damage could mean that Nidalee does a decent job of protecting Swain in teamfights.
Synergies between Swain and Nidalee
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Is Swain better when played alongside Nidalee?
There is no universally accepted best synergy for Swain that will always be his #1 ally. Yet, overall, Nidalee is a very bad ally for Swain. By playing on the same side as Swain, she lowers their win rate by -5.8% to 45.5%. This proves that there is a very bad bond between Swain and Nidalee that results in them performing not as well together than alone.
Nidalee has a lower difficulty than Swain. That means Swain players don't need to be cautious when finding Nidalee allies to fight alongside, as they will need a lower level of skill to work well with you.
Playing together, you should expect to see an overall large increase in your team’s ability to deal magic damage. Combined, these two can deal quite a lot of AP type damage.
In contrast, by aligning Swain and Nidalee together, you probably will not be granting your team a lot of AD. Plan to have other champs on your team that nullifies this relative gap in their potential.
Regardless of the ability of your Nidalee ally, you should focus on increasing your income, warding to avoid ambushes, and clearing objectives. If you do this, you will do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to truly master Swain to work well with Nidalee during both the laning and mid / late game phases of LoL, you should continue reading to gather a few extra tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you mind the build and suggestions shown above, you will grow your win rate significantly.
The best items to have in your Swain and Nidalee synergy build consist of Rylai's Crystal Scepter, Malignance, and Liandry's Torment. When Swain bought at least these three finished items in his build, he did much better as an ally of Nidalee than with many other common item sets. In fact, Swain had an average winrate of 45.5% when playing alongside Nidalee with these items in his kit.
To have the best likelihood of crushing your oponents, you should use the Conqueror, Presence of Mind, Legend: Tenacity, Last Stand, Conditioning, and Overgrowth runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Of all the rune sets players used for this champion pairing, this sequence of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 45.5% win rate overall.
By default, tips, statistics, and builds on how to team up Nidalee with Swain are given for all skill levels, merged. To scope the statistics and builds to a distinct skill level, you can use the selection menu located earlier in the counter matchup guide.