Swain with Nocturne
How to Synergize Swain and Nocturne
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Swain Nocturne Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Swain and Nocturne
Tips for Playing as Swain with Nocturne
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 Nocturne Will Play
Use Shroud of Darkness in tandem with Paranoia's dash. Your opponents may panic and waste a critical disable on your spell shield.
Using Paranoia at a critical moment is well worth it even if you cannot use the dash.
Duskbringer isn't only an offensive ability. It can be used to close distance out of combat or escape from certain death.
Swain Nocturne Synergy Stats
How to Play with Nocturne as Swain in LoL
The Swain Nocturne synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Nocturne, 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 large worsening in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Nocturne. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This negative change shows that Nocturne helps Swain perform not as well in ranked League of Legends games. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Swain plays on the same team as Nocturne, he gets a small increase in his full damage dealt. This difference may signal that Nocturne provides protection for him to deal more damage or that his presence on the team also helps increase the match's duration. Similarly, when Swain is played alongside Nocturne 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 Nocturne.
Moreover, when Swain plays with Nocturne on the same team, he typically receives a little more damage than when he plays alone. Receiving more damage may indicate that Nocturne does a poor job of covering Swain in teamfights.
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Is Swain better when played alongside Nocturne?
There is no perfect champion pairing for Swain that will no matter what be his ideal synergy. However, overall, Nocturne is a decent teammate for Swain. By being on the same team as Swain, he improves their win rate by 2.7% to 54.0%. This signals that there is a potentially meaningful strategic relationship between Swain and Nocturne that allows them to perform better together than without each other.
Nocturne has a much lower diffuclty than Swain. That means Swain players don't need to be very careful when arranging Nocturne comrades to go into battle on the same side as, as they will need a much lower level of skill to be able to work well with you.
When playing on the same side, Swain players should witness an overall large increase in your team’s ability to dish out massive AD. When paired, these champs can tear through the other team with a lot of physcial damage.
Although, by bringing Swain and Nocturne together, you will not be granting your other teammates very much crowd control. Make sure to have other champs on your team that helps cover this gap in their potential.
Regardless of your Nocturne ally's ability, you need to focus on increasing your income, outlasting your enemies, and taking down objectives. If you do this, you will do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To learn all of the intricacies of Swain in order to pair well with Nocturne during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to master some more tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you use the build and suggestions displayed above, you should increase your win rate by a lot.
The most crucial items to have in your Swain and Nocturne synergy build consist of Spirit Visage, Malignance, and Liandry's Torment. When Swain included at least these three items in his build, he did significantly better when fighting alongside Nocturne than with most other typical item sets. In fact, Swain had an average win rate of 54.0% when playing alongside Nocturne with this build.
To have the greatest chance of defeating your oponents, Swain players should take the Conqueror, Presence of Mind, Legend: Tenacity, Last Stand, Conditioning, and Overgrowth runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the rune builds players chose for this team composition, this blending of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 54.0% winrate overall.
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