Swain with Tahm Kench
How to Synergize Swain and Tahm Kench
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Swain Tahm Kench Synergy Summary
Best Swain vs Tahm Kench Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Swain and Tahm Kench
Tips for Playing as Swain with Tahm Kench
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 Tahm Kench Will Play
Your most important function as a support is to keep fragile allies safe. Keep Devour's range and cooldown in mind and position accordingly!
Consider carefully when to use Thick Skin's active. Sometimes shielding early to avoid further damage is good, but sometimes the healing is more beneficial.
Swain Tahm Kench Synergy Stats
How to Play with Tahm Kench as Swain in LoL
The Swain Tahm Kench synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Tahm Kench, 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 Tahm Kench. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This fall shows that Tahm Kench helps Swain perform poorer in competitive LoL matches. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Swain tries to synergize with Tahm Kench, he sees a barely noticable drop in his total damage output. This change may demonstrate that Tahm Kench does not provide protection for him to deal more damage or that his allyship also helps extend the round's duration. Similarly, when Swain is played with Tahm Kench on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing synergisticly with Tahm Kench.
Moreover, when Swain plays with Tahm Kench on the same side, he typically takes a little less damage than when he plays alone. Taking not as much damage may mean that Tahm Kench does a decent job of covering Swain during teamfights.
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Is Swain better when played alongside Tahm Kench?
There is no top synergy for Swain that will 100% of the time be his top synergy. Yet, Tahm Kench is a very typical ally for Swain. By being on the same team as Swain, he raises their win rate by 0.9% to 52.2%. This demonstrates that there is only a small synergy between Swain and Tahm Kench that allows them to perform at the top of their game together than alone.
Tahm Kench has a much lower diffuclty than Swain. That means Swain players don't need to be cautious when arranging Tahm Kench allies to go into battle on the same side as, as they will need a much lower level of skill to work well with you.
Fighting on the same side, Swain players should expect to witness an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to deal magical damage. Combined, these two can blast through enemies with magic damage.
Conversely, by pairing Swain and Tahm Kench together, you will not be giving your team enough sustained damage output. Make sure to have other champs on your team that neutralizes this relative hole in this pairing's abilities.
Regardless of your Tahm Kench ally's skill level, you need to focus on maximizing your gold income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and clearing objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you will do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Swain in order to work well with Tahm Kench during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League, you should keep reading to gather some more lessons on this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and tips presented above, you should increase your win rate by a lot.
The best finished items to have in your Swain and Tahm Kench synergy build consist of Rylai's Crystal Scepter, Malignance, and Zhonya's Hourglass. When Swain used at least these three great items in his build, he performed much better as an ally of Tahm Kench than with most other typical item sets. In fact, Swain had an average win rate of 52.2% when playing alongside Tahm Kench with this build.
To have the best probability of vanquishing your oponents, you 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 rune builds players used for this team composition, this mixture of runes yielded the top win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 52.2% winrate overall.
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