Swain with Talon
How to Synergize Swain and Talon
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Swain Talon Synergy Summary
Best Swain vs Talon Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Swain and Talon
Tips for Playing as Swain with Talon
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 Talon Will Play
Shadow Assault is a powerful escape tool, but can also be offensively used to assault a group.
You can use Assassin's Path to get behind the enemy and set up for Noxian Diplomacy's melee attack.
Remember to pick your target before the fight. Focusing all of Talon's abilities on one target can be very rewarding, but splitting them up between many may leave you helpless.
Swain Talon Synergy Stats
How to Play with Talon as Swain in LoL
The Swain Talon synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Talon, 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 Talon. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This negative change shows that Talon helps Swain perform worse in competitive LoL matches. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is only marginal.
When Swain plays on the same team as Talon, he gets a little increase in his complete damage output. This change could demonstrate that Talon supports by providing cover for him to deal more damage or that his allyship also helps increase the game's duration. Similarly, when Swain is played together with Talon on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing alongside Talon.
Moreover, when Swain plays with Talon on the same side, he typically receives a little more damage than when he fights alone. Receiving more damage could mean that Talon does a poor job of covering Swain during team fights.
Synergies between Swain and Talon
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Is Swain better when played alongside Talon?
There is no top companion for Swain that will 100% of the time be his top ally. However, Talon is a below average teammate for Swain. By locking into the same side as Swain, he decreases their win rate by -1.4% to 49.9%. This clearly indicates that there is a harmful strategic relationship between Swain and Talon that allows them to perform not as well together than alone.
Talon has a lower difficulty than Swain. That means you don't need to be cautious when finding Talon comrades to go into battle on the same side as, as they will have to have a lower level of skill to play well with you.
When playing on the same side, Swain players should expect to observe an overall large increase in your team’s capability to deal physical damage. Together, these champs can provide a great amount of sustained physical damage.
Conversely, by grouping Swain and Talon together, you will not be giving your side very much support. We recommend you have other champs on your team that neutralizes this hole in this pairing's capabilities.
Regardless of the ability of your Talon teammate, you need to focus on increasing your income, warding to avoid ambushes, and taking down objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you should do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Swain to work well with Talon during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to pick up additional tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and suggestions presented here, you will grow your win rate by a lot.
The ideal finished items to get in your Swain and Talon synergy build include Rylai's Crystal Scepter, Riftmaker, and Liandry's Torment. When Swain incorporated at least these three pieces in his build, he did much better as an ally of Talon than with many other commonly used item sets. In fact, Swain boasted an average win rate of 49.9% when playing alongside Talon with these items in his kit.
To have the greatest likelihood of crushing 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 chose for this champion pairing, this combination of runes resulted in the best win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 49.9% winrate overall.
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