Swain with Poppy
How to Synergize Swain and Poppy
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Swain Poppy Synergy Summary
Best Swain vs Poppy Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Swain and Poppy
Tips for Playing as Swain with Poppy
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 Poppy Will Play
Keeper's Verdict can be released immediately to send the enemy straight up, take advantage of this in duels.
Iron Ambassador tends to land near walls, try to take advantage of this with Heroic Charge.
Swain Poppy Synergy Stats
How to Play with Poppy as Swain in LoL
The Swain Poppy synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Poppy, 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 Poppy. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Poppy helps Swain perform worse in competitive LoL rounds. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Swain is an ally to Poppy, he observes a marginal improvement in his complete damage dealt. This difference could signal that Poppy supports by providing protection for him to deal more damage or that her participation also helps extend the round's duration. Similarly, when Swain is played alongside Poppy on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing alongside Poppy.
Moreover, when Swain plays with Poppy on the same team, he often receives a little more damage than when he fights alone. Receiving more damage may indicate that Poppy does a poor job of covering Swain during team fights.
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Is Swain better when played alongside Poppy?
There is no perfect companion for Swain that will 100% of the time be his #1 teammate. Yet, Poppy is a very typical companion for Swain. By being on the same team as Swain, she improves their win rate by 0.9% to 52.2%. This clearly indicates that there is not really a strong synergy between Swain and Poppy that results in them performing stronger together than alone.
Poppy has a lower difficulty than Swain. That means you don't need to be careful when finding Poppy teammates to fight alongside, as they will need a lower level of skill to be able to cooperate well with you.
Playing alongside, Swain players should see an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to tank a lot of damage. Together, these champions will be able to tank for the rest of their team.
In contrast, by pairing Swain and Poppy together, you probably will not be providing your other allies much sustained damage output. We recommend you include other champs on your team that neutralizes this hole in their playstyle.
Regardless of your Poppy ally's ability, you need to focus on maximizing your gold income, warding to avoid ambushes, 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
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Swain to synergize with Poppy during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends rounds, you should keep reading to learn a few extra lessons on this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and suggestions displayed here, you will grow your win rate by a lot.
The top finished items to have in your Swain and Poppy synergy build consist of Rylai's Crystal Scepter, Malignance, and Liandry's Torment. When Swain combined at least these three finished items in his build, he did much better when paired up with Poppy than with most other typical item sets. In fact, Swain had an average win rate of 52.2% when playing alongside Poppy with these items in his kit.
To have the greatest chance of crushing your oponents, you 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 runes players chose for this team composition, this blending of runes yielded the top win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 52.2% winrate overall.
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