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 Seraphine synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Seraphine, 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 Seraphine. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This decrease shows that Seraphine helps Swain perform not as well in competitive League rounds. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Swain is an ally to Seraphine, he observes a little increase in his total damage output. This difference may indicate that Seraphine supports by providing cover for him to deal more damage or that her allyship also helps extend the game's duration. Similarly, when Swain is played together with Seraphine on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing alongside Seraphine.
Moreover, when Swain plays with Seraphine on the same team, he usually takes a little less damage than when he plays alone. Taking not as much damage could mean that Seraphine does a decent job of covering Swain during team fights.
There is no perfect synergy for Swain that will no matter what be his #1 synergy. However, Seraphine is a decent teammate for Swain. By playing on the same side as Swain, she raises their win rate by 1.2% to 52.5%. This shows that there is pretty good synergy between Swain and Seraphine that allows them to perform better together than alone.
Seraphine has a much lower diffuclty than Swain. That means you don't need to be very careful when finding Seraphine comrades to go into battle on the same side as, as they will need a much lower level of skill to be able to play well with you.
Fighting together, you will likely see an overall large increase in your team’s capability to provide utility and CC for your side. Combined, these two will help their other teammates secure a victory.
Conversely, by pairing Swain and Seraphine together, you probably will not be giving your other allies much attack damage. We recommend you bring other champs on your team that fills this relative gap in this pairing's potential.
Regardless of your Seraphine ally's skill level, you should focus on maximizing your income, warding to avoid ambushes, and clearing objectives. If you do this, you should do well, regardless.
If you would like to truly master Swain in order to work well with Seraphine during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League, you should keep reading to master additional lessons on this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and suggestions shown above, you will grow your win rate by a lot.
The most important finished items to have in your Swain and Seraphine synergy build include Rylai's Crystal Scepter, Riftmaker, and Liandry's Torment. When Swain bought at least these three pieces in his build, he did a lot better when fighting alongside Seraphine than with many other common item sets. In fact, Swain had an average win rate of 52.5% helping carry Seraphine with these items in his kit.
To have the best chance of vanquishing your oponents, Swain players should use the Conqueror, Presence of Mind, Legend: Tenacity, Last Stand, Conditioning, and Overgrowth runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Of all the runes that we analyzed for Swain and Seraphine pairings, this set of runes yielded the top win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 52.5% winrate overall.
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