Swain with Riven
How to Synergize Swain and Riven
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Swain Riven Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Swain and Riven
Tips for Playing as Swain with Riven
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 Riven Will Play
Riven lacks a source of healing or strong defense and must compensate with burst combos. Lead into fights with Broken Wings and Ki Burst, while using Valor to escape and absorb counter-harass.
Riven's Broken Wings locks onto the champion your cursor is over at the time of cast. If you want to move past your opponent, make sure that your cursor is past your opponent as well.
Swain Riven Synergy Stats
How to Play with Riven as Swain in LoL
The Swain Riven synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Riven, 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 Riven. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Riven helps Swain perform not as well in competitive LoL matches. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is only marginal.
When Swain tries to synergize with Riven, he gets a small decrease in his total damage dealt. This difference could signal that Riven does not support by providing cover for him to deal more damage or that her support also helps extend the game's duration. Similarly, when Swain is played together with Riven on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays without Riven. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing synergisticly with Riven.
Moreover, when Swain plays with Riven on the same team, he usually takes a little less damage than when he plays alone. Taking not as much damage could indicate that Riven does a decent job of covering Swain during team fights.
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Is Swain better when played alongside Riven?
There is no top champion pairing for Swain that will 100% of the time be his #1 teammate. Yet, overall, Riven is a very typical teammate for Swain. By being on the same side as Swain, she decreases their win rate by -0.8% to 50.5%. This demonstrates that there is only a small bond between Swain and Riven that results in them performing not as well together than alone.
Riven has a lower difficulty than Swain. That means you don't need to be very careful when enlisting Riven allies to go into battle on the same side as, as they will have to have a lower level of skill to be able to fight well with you.
When playing on the same side, you will likely observe an overall large increase in your team’s ability to soak up damage. Together, these champs will be able to tank for the rest of their team.
Conversely, by aligning Swain and Riven together, you may not be giving your side enough crowd control. Make sure to include other champs on your team that nullifies this relative hole in their potential.
Regardless of your Riven ally's skill level, you should focus on increasing your gold income, warding to avoid ambushes, and taking down objectives. If you do this, you should do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to truly master Swain in order to pair well with Riven during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends matches, you should keep reading to gather some more lessons on this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and tips displayed above, you will grow your win rate significantly.
The most crucial finished items to use in your Swain and Riven synergy build include Rylai's Crystal Scepter, Malignance, and Liandry's Torment. When Swain combined at least these three pieces in his build, he did a lot better when paired up with Riven than with most other common builds. In fact, Swain had an average winrate of 50.5% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Riven with these items in his kit.
To have the greatest likelihood of beating 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 used for Swain and Riven pairings, this mix of runes resulted in the top win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 50.5% winrate overall.
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