Swain with Shaco
How to Synergize Swain and Shaco
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Swain Shaco Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Swain and Shaco
Tips for Playing as Swain with Shaco
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 Shaco Will Play
Using Deceive over terrain can help you make a clean escape.
Try getting items with on-hit effects. These will also benefit your Hallucination clone.
Backstab's damage can be increased with increased Critical Damage effects like Infinity Edge.
Swain Shaco Synergy Stats
How to Play with Shaco as Swain in LoL
The Swain Shaco synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Shaco, 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 Shaco. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Shaco helps Swain perform poorer in ranked LoL rounds. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Swain tries to synergize with Shaco, he observes a marginal improvement in his total damage dealt. This difference could demonstrate that Shaco supports by providing protection for him to dish out more damage or that his support also helps extend the round's duration. Similarly, when Swain is played together with Shaco 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 alongside Shaco.
Additionally, when Swain plays with Shaco on the same side, he on average takes more damage than when he fights alone. Getting dealt more damage could indicate that Shaco does a poor job of protecting Swain during teamfights.
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Is Swain better when played alongside Shaco?
There is no one best synergy for Swain that will no matter what be his #1 synergy. However, Shaco is a very typical teammate for Swain. By being on the same side as Swain, he drops their win rate by -0.3% to 51.0%. This demonstrates that there is only a small bond between Swain and Shaco that results in them performing worse together than without each other.
Shaco has a greater difficulty than Swain. That means Swain players should be careful when finding Shaco allies to play with, as they will require a greater level of skill to be able to work well with you.
Playing alongside, Swain players should expect to witness an overall large increase in your team’s ability to to do a lot of AP damage. When paired, these champions can deal quite a lot of AP type damage.
Although, by bringing Swain and Shaco together, you may not be granting your other allies a great deal of utility. Make sure to have other champs on your team that neutralizes this hole in this pairing's potential.
Regardless of your Shaco ally's skill level, you should focus on increasing your income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and clearing objectives. If you do this, you will do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to truly master Swain to work well with Shaco during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends matches, you should keep reading to pick up additional lessons on this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and suggestions shown above, you should increase your win rate significantly.
The top items to have in your Swain and Shaco synergy build consist of Malignance, Riftmaker, and Liandry's Torment. When Swain combined at least these three finished items in his build, he performed significantly better when fighting alongside Shaco than with most other commonly used builds. In fact, Swain had an average winrate of 51.0% when playing alongside Shaco with these items in his kit.
To have the highest 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 players used for this team composition, this combo of runes resulted in the best win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 51.0% winrate overall.
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