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.
Mortal Will activates after 5 spells or basic attacks - plan your way through fights to allow you to activate it more than once.
Whittle the enemy down with Comet Spears before you jump in.
If an enemy is going to get out of range of your Aegis Assault, you can recast the spell to immediately fire the shield slam.
The Swain Pantheon synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Pantheon, 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 Pantheon. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Pantheon helps Swain perform not as well in ranked League rounds. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Swain tries to synergize with Pantheon, he observes a small increase in his total damage output. This could signal that Pantheon helps provide protection for him to dish out more damage or that his allyship also helps extend the match's duration. Similarly, when Swain is played together with Pantheon on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays without Pantheon. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing alongside Pantheon.
Moreover, when Swain plays with Pantheon on the same team, he typically takes a little more damage than when he fights alone. Taking more damage may indicate that Pantheon does a poor job of covering Swain in teamfights.
There is no one best companion for Swain that will 100% of the time be his top teammate. However, Pantheon is a very typical ally for Swain. By locking into the same team as Swain, he raises their win rate by 0.5% to 51.8%. This shows that there is only a small strategic relationship between Swain and Pantheon that results in them performing better together than without each other.
Pantheon has a much lower diffuclty than Swain. That means you don't need to be very careful when finding Pantheon comrades to go into battle on the same side as, as they will have to have a much lower level of skill to be able to fight well with you.
When playing on the same side, you should expect to witness an overall large increase in your team’s ability to to do a lot of AP damage. Together, these two can blast through enemies with magic damage.
Conversely, by grouping Swain and Pantheon together, you will not be giving your side a lot of utility. We recommend you have other champions on your team that nullifies this hole in this pairing's capabilities.
Regardless of your Pantheon ally's ability, you should focus on increasing your income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and clearing objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you will do well anyway.
To learn all of the intricacies of Swain in order to work well with Pantheon during both the laning and mid / late game phases of LoL matches, you should continue reading to master additional lessons on this champion pairing. If you mind the build and suggestions displayed above, you will increase your win rate by a lot.
The best items to have in your Swain and Pantheon synergy build consist of Frozen Heart, Rylai's Crystal Scepter, and Liandry's Torment. When Swain incorporated at least these three items in his build, he did a lot better when fighting alongside Pantheon than with many other common builds. In fact, Swain had an average winrate of 51.8% helping carry Pantheon with this build.
To have the highest chance of beating your oponents, Swain players should equip the Summon Aery, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Scorch, Conditioning, and Overgrowth runes from the Sorcery and Resolve rune sets. Of all the runes players used for this team composition, this combination of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 51.8% winrate overall.
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