Swain with Soraka
How to Synergize Swain and Soraka
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Swain Soraka Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Swain and Soraka
Tips for Playing as Swain with Soraka
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 Soraka Will Play
Equinox can be used as a powerful zoning tool to keep enemies at bay.
You can use Wish on your allies from across the map to save them from otherwise fatal events.
Soraka is a powerful ally in battle, using her strong healing to keep the party moving forward.
Swain Soraka Synergy Stats
How to Play with Soraka as Swain in LoL
The Swain Soraka synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Soraka, 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 Soraka. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Soraka helps Swain perform worse in competitive League rounds. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Swain is paired with Soraka, he observes a sizeable uptick in his full damage dealt. This change may signal that Soraka supports by providing protection for him to deal more damage or that her presence also helps increase the match's duration. Similarly, when Swain is played alongside Soraka on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays without Soraka. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing synergisticly with Soraka.
Additionally, when Swain plays with Soraka on the same side, he on average receives more damage than when he fights alone. Taking more damage could indicate that Soraka does a poor job of covering Swain during teamfights.
Synergies between Swain and Soraka
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Is Swain better when played alongside Soraka?
There is no top synergy for Swain that will 100% of the time be his ideal synergy. Yet, overall, Soraka is a very typical ally for Swain. By locking into the same team as Swain, she raises their win rate by 0.9% to 52.2%. This signals that there is not really a strong bond between Swain and Soraka that results in them performing at the top of their game together than without each other.
Soraka has a much lower diffuclty than Swain. That means Swain players don't need to be very careful when arranging Soraka allies to fight alongside, as they will need a much lower level of skill to fight well with you.
Fighting on the same side, Swain players should expect to observe an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to to do a lot of AP damage. Combined, these champs can blast through enemies with magic damage.
Although, by bringing Swain and Soraka together, you probably will not be granting your other teammates much sustained damage output. Make sure to pick other champs on your team that nullifies this relative hole in their playstyle.
Regardless of your Soraka ally's ability, you should focus on maximizing your income, warding to avoid ambushes, and taking down objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you will do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To truly master Swain in order to work well with Soraka during both the early game and mid / late game phases of LoL, you should keep reading to master additional tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and suggestions displayed here, you will increase your win rate significantly.
The ideal items to include in your Swain and Soraka synergy build include Rylai's Crystal Scepter, Malignance, and Liandry's Torment. When Swain incorporated at least these three great items in his build, he performed significantly better when paired up with Soraka than with many other common item sets. In fact, Swain boasted an average winrate of 52.2% when playing alongside Soraka with these items in his kit.
To have the highest probability of annihilating your oponents, you should take the Summon Aery, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Scorch, Conditioning, and Overgrowth runes from the Sorcery and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the rune builds players picked for this champion pairing, this blending of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 52.2% win rate overall.
By default, tips, statistics, and builds on how to pair Soraka with Swain are given for all ranked divisions combined. If you would like to scope the statistics and builds to a particular player tier, you should use the selection menu earlier on the page.