Swain with Skarner
How to Synergize Swain and Skarner
based on 475 Swain with Skarner pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Swain Skarner Synergy Summary
Best Swain vs Skarner Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Swain and Skarner
Tips for Playing as Swain with Skarner
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 Skarner Will Play
Impale is extremely powerful when you use it to position an enemy so your allies can attack them.
Basic attacks reduce the cooldown of Crystal Slash. Use them as often as possible for maximum damage.
Capturing Crystal Spires before attempting neutral objectives or team fights around them improves Skarner's performance in said fights dramatically.
Swain Skarner Synergy Stats
How to Play with Skarner as Swain in LoL
The Swain Skarner synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Skarner, 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 Skarner. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Skarner helps Swain perform worse in competitive League of Legends games. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Swain is paired with Skarner, he sees a marginal improvement in his total damage output. This change could signal that Skarner helps provide cover for him to deal more damage or that his presence on the team also helps increase the round's duration. Similarly, when Swain is played together with Skarner on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays without Skarner. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing alongside Skarner.
Additionally, when Swain plays with Skarner on the same team, he often takes a little less damage than when he fights alone. Receiving not as much damage could indicate that Skarner does a decent job of covering Swain in team fights.
Synergies between Swain and Skarner
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Is Swain better when played alongside Skarner?
There is no ideal champion pairing for Swain that will no matter what be his #1 synergy. Yet, overall, Skarner is a very typical companion for Swain. By playing on the same side as Swain, he lowers their win rate by -0.4% to 50.9%. This clearly indicates that there is a weak bond between Swain and Skarner that allows them to perform worse together than alone.
Skarner has a much lower diffuclty than Swain. That means you don't need to be very careful when lining up Skarner allies to go into battle on the same side as, as they will need a much lower level of skill to be able to do well with you.
Fighting together, Swain players should observe an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to deal magic damage. Combined, these champs are able to dish out a surprising amount of magic type damage.
Conversely, by pairing Swain and Skarner together, you may not be providing your team enough attack damage. Make sure to have other champions on your team that nullifies this relative disparity in their capabilities.
Regardless of the skill of your Skarner ally, you need to focus on increasing your income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and taking down objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you should do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To learn all of the intricacies of Swain to work well with Skarner during both the early game and mid / late game phases of LoL rounds, you should continue reading to learn additional tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you mind the build and tips displayed here, you should grow your win rate significantly.
The ideal items to use in your Swain and Skarner synergy build consist of Rylai's Crystal Scepter, Malignance, and Liandry's Torment. When Swain incorporated at least these three great items in his build, he did a lot better when paired up with Skarner than with many other common item sets. In fact, Swain boasted an average winrate of 50.9% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Skarner with these items in his kit.
To have the best chance of annihilating 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 players picked for Swain and Skarner pairings, this mix of runes yielded the top win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 50.9% win rate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to synergize Skarner with Swain are shown for all ranked divisions combined. If you want to narrow the statistics and builds to a specific rank, you should use the selection menu earlier in the counter matchup guide.