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.
Teemo's mushrooms can be used to farm creep waves very effectively.
Place your mushrooms at key locations on the map, such as by the Dragon or Baron Nashor, to reveal when your enemies might be attempting to kill them.
The Swain Teemo synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Teemo, 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 Teemo. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Teemo helps Swain perform poorer in ranked League of Legends matches. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Swain plays on the same team as Teemo, he observes a small increase in his complete damage dealt. This could indicate that Teemo supports by providing protection for him to dish out more damage or that his presence on the team also helps extend the game's duration. Similarly, when Swain is played alongside Teemo on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing synergisticly with Teemo.
Moreover, when Swain plays with Teemo on the same side, he on average takes more damage than when he plays alone. Taking more damage may mean that Teemo does a poor job of protecting Swain in teamfights.
There is no ideal champion pairing for Swain that will always be his ideal teammate. However, overall, Teemo is a good teammate for Swain. By playing on the same side as Swain, he improves their win rate by 2.4% to 53.7%. This proves that there is a good bond between Swain and Teemo that results in them performing at the top of their game together than alone.
Teemo has a lower difficulty than Swain. That means you don't need to be very careful when finding Teemo allies to go into battle on the same side as, as they will require a lower level of skill to fight well with you.
Working alongside, Swain players will likely see an overall large increase in your team’s capability to deal magical damage. Combined, these champions are able to dish out a surprising amount of magic type damage.
In contrast, by pairing Swain and Teemo together, you probably will not be providing your team much AD. Plan to have other champions on your team that fills this hole in their potential.
Regardless of the skill of your Teemo teammate, you need to focus on increasing your income, outlasting your enemies, and clearing objectives. If you do this, you will do well, regardless.
To learn all of the intricacies of Swain in order to work well with Teemo during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends matches, you should keep reading to master additional tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you use the build and suggestions shown above, you will increase your win rate significantly.
The ideal items to use in your Swain and Teemo synergy build consist of Spirit Visage, Rylai's Crystal Scepter, and Malignance. When Swain combined at least these three finished items in his build, he did a lot better when fighting alongside Teemo than with most other commonly used item sets. In fact, Swain had an average winrate of 53.7% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Teemo with these items in his kit.
To have the greatest likelihood of vanquishing your oponents, you should use the Summon Aery, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Scorch, Conditioning, and Overgrowth runes from the Sorcery and Resolve rune sets. Of all the runes players used for this team composition, this mix of runes yielded the best win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 53.7% winrate overall.
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