Swain with Syndra
How to Synergize Swain and Syndra
based on 2,034 Swain with Syndra pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Swain Syndra Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Swain and Syndra
Tips for Playing as Swain with Syndra
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 Syndra Will Play
To maximize your ultimate's damage use it when there are many spheres on the battlefield.
After you hit an enemy champion with Force of Will follow up with Dark Sphere, they'll be slowed and have a hard time avoiding it.
Get one of your spells to rank 5 as quickly as possible, they gain powerful bonus effects at max rank.
Swain Syndra Synergy Stats
How to Play with Syndra as Swain in LoL
The Swain Syndra synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Syndra, 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 large worsening in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Syndra. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This decrease shows that Syndra helps Swain perform not as well in competitive League of Legends rounds. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is only marginal.
When Swain is paired with Syndra, he sees a small decrease in his full damage dealt. This may demonstrate that Syndra does not help protection for him to dish out more damage or that her support also helps increase the match's duration. Similarly, when Swain is played together with Syndra 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 synergisticly with Syndra.
Additionally, when Swain plays with Syndra on the same team, he typically receives a little less damage than when he fights alone. Getting dealt not as much damage could mean that Syndra does a decent job of protecting Swain during team fights.
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Is Swain better when played alongside Syndra?
There is no top synergy for Swain that will 100% of the time be his best synergy. However, overall, Syndra is a not very good companion for Swain. By locking into the same side as Swain, she lowers their win rate by -2.4% to 48.9%. This signals that there is a bad bond between Swain and Syndra that allows them to perform not as well together than without each other.
Syndra has a lower difficulty than Swain. That means Swain players don't need to be careful when enlisting Syndra comrades to go into battle on the same side as, as they will require a relatively low level of skill to be able to work well with you.
Playing together, Swain players will likely observe an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to deal magic damage. Together, these champs can blast through enemies with magic damage.
Although, by aligning Swain and Syndra together, you will not be granting your side much sustained damage output. Plan to pick other champs on your team that offsets this relative gap in their capabilities.
Regardless of your Syndra ally's ability, you should focus on increasing your gold income, warding to avoid ambushes, and clearing objectives. If you do this, you should do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To truly master Swain to work well with Syndra during both the laning and mid / late game phases of LoL, you should keep reading to master some more lessons on this champion pairing. If you use the build and tips presented here, you should grow your win rate significantly.
The best finished items to use in your Swain and Syndra synergy build include Rylai's Crystal Scepter, Malignance, and Liandry's Torment. When Swain used at least these three pieces in his build, he did significantly better when paired up with Syndra than with most other common builds. In fact, Swain had an average winrate of 48.9% when playing alongside Syndra with these items in his kit.
To have the highest chance of annihilating 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. Out of all the rune sets that we analyzed for this team composition, this composite of runes resulted in the best win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 48.9% win rate overall.
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