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.
The Swain Qiyana synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Qiyana, 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 Qiyana. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This decrease shows that Qiyana helps Swain perform poorer in ranked League of Legends games. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is only marginal.
When Swain is an ally to Qiyana, he sees a little drop in his complete damage dealt. This could indicate that Qiyana does not help protection for him to dish out more damage or that her allyship also helps increase the match's duration. Similarly, when Swain is played with Qiyana on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing synergisticly with Qiyana.
Additionally, when Swain plays with Qiyana on the same team, he often takes a little less damage than when he plays alone. Taking not as much damage may indicate that Qiyana does a decent job of covering Swain in team fights.
There is no top champion pairing for Swain that will no matter what be his best ally. Yet, overall, Qiyana is a very typical ally for Swain. By being on the same team as Swain, she drops their win rate by -1.0% to 50.3%. This signals that there is a weak bond between Swain and Qiyana that results in them performing worse together than without each other.
Qiyana has a lower difficulty than Swain. That means you don't need to be careful when enlisting Qiyana comrades to play with, as they will require a relatively low level of skill to do well with you.
Playing cooperatively, Swain players should see an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to to do a lot of AP damage. Together, these champions can blast through enemies with magic damage.
In contrast, by aligning Swain and Qiyana together, you probably will not be giving your other teammates a lot of AD. Plan to include other champions on your team that nullifies this disparity in their abilities.
Regardless of your Qiyana ally's ability, you should focus on maximizing your gold income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and clearing objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you should do well, regardless.
To learn all of the intricacies of Swain to work well with Qiyana during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends games, you should keep reading to gather some more lessons on this champion pairing. If you mind the build and tips shown here, you will increase your win rate significantly.
The most important items to prioritize in your Swain and Qiyana synergy build consist of Rylai's Crystal Scepter, Malignance, and Liandry's Torment. When Swain included at least these three great items in his build, he performed a lot better when fighting alongside Qiyana than with many other typical builds. In fact, Swain had an average winrate of 50.3% helping carry Qiyana with these items in his kit.
To have the highest 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 rune sets that we analyzed for this champion pairing, this mix of runes resulted in the top win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 50.3% win rate overall.
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