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.
Cull the Meek drains an enormous amount of life when used in the middle of the fray. You can use this to bait opponents into thinking you are weaker than you really are.
Slice and Dice excels at harassing maneuvers. Slice in, follow up with another skill and then Dice back out to safety.
Cooldown reduction is especially good for Renekton, allowing him to both quickly build up and use his Fury.
The Swain Renekton synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Renekton, 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 Renekton. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This decrease shows that Renekton helps Swain perform not as well in ranked League games. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Swain tries to synergize with Renekton, he gets a small increase in his full damage output. This difference could signal that Renekton provides protection for him to deal more damage or that his presence also helps extend the round's duration. Similarly, when Swain is played with Renekton on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing synergisticly with Renekton.
Moreover, when Swain plays with Renekton on the same side, he often takes a little less damage than when he plays alone. Taking not as much damage could indicate that Renekton does a decent job of covering Swain during teamfights.
There is no perfect synergy for Swain that will no matter what be his ideal teammate. Yet, overall, Renekton is a relatively poor ally for Swain. By being on the same team as Swain, he lowers their win rate by -3.0% to 48.3%. This shows that there is a harmful bond between Swain and Renekton that results in them performing not as well together than alone.
Renekton has a much lower diffuclty than Swain. That means you don't need to be very careful when enlisting Renekton teammates to fight alongside, as they will need a much lower level of skill to fight well with you.
Playing alongside, you should witness an overall large increase in your team’s ability to deal magic damage. Together, these two can deal quite a lot of AP type damage.
In contrast, by bringing Swain and Renekton together, you may not be providing your team very much crowd control. Plan to have other champs on your team that neutralizes this relative hole in this pairing's kit.
Regardless of the ability of your Renekton ally, you should focus on maximizing your gold income, warding to avoid ambushes, and clearing objectives. If you do this, you will do well anyway.
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Swain in order to work well with Renekton during both the early game and mid / late game phases of LoL matches, you should keep reading to pick up some more tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you mind the build and suggestions shown here, you will increase your win rate significantly.
The ideal items to build first in your Swain and Renekton synergy build consist of Rylai's Crystal Scepter, Malignance, and Zhonya's Hourglass. When Swain used at least these three great items in his build, he performed much better when paired up with Renekton than with many other commonly used item sets. In fact, Swain had an average win rate of 48.3% when playing alongside Renekton with this build.
To have the greatest likelihood of vanquishing your oponents, you should equip 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 that we analyzed for this champion pairing, this blending of runes yielded the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 48.3% winrate overall.
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