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.
Use Subjugate to soften a powerful enemy tank or to create a target for your team to focus fire.
Trundle excels at fighting within his Frozen Domain. Try to draw enemies onto it.
Chomp is good for lowering the physical damage of enemies; try to focus it on enemy physical damage dealers.
The Swain Trundle synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Trundle, 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 Trundle. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This fall shows that Trundle helps Swain perform poorer in ranked LoL rounds. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Swain is paired with Trundle, he gets a little decrease in his total damage dealt. This change may signal that Trundle does not provide protection for him to deal more damage or that his presence on the team also helps increase the match's duration. Similarly, when Swain is played together with Trundle 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 with Trundle.
Moreover, when Swain plays with Trundle on the same team, he on average takes a little less damage than when he fights alone. Receiving not as much damage may mean that Trundle does a decent job of covering Swain during teamfights.
There is no ideal champion pairing for Swain that will 100% of the time be his best ally. Yet, overall, Trundle is a decent teammate for Swain. By playing on the same side as Swain, he raises their win rate by 2.4% to 53.7%. This demonstrates that there is pretty good bond between Swain and Trundle that allows them to perform stronger together than alone.
Trundle has a much lower diffuclty than Swain. That means Swain players don't need to be cautious when arranging Trundle comrades to go into battle on the same side as, as they will need a much lower level of skill to be able to fight well with you.
Playing on the same side, you will likely see an overall large increase in your team’s capability to tank a lot of damage. Together, these two will be a great protective duo.
Although, by pairing Swain and Trundle together, you may not be giving your other teammates much attack damage. Plan to include other champs on your team that nullifies this relative disparity in their playstyle.
Regardless of your Trundle ally's skill level, you need to focus on maximizing your gold income, warding to avoid ambushes, and clearing objectives. If you do this, you should do well, regardless.
To learn all of the intricacies of Swain in order to synergize with Trundle during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends rounds, you should keep reading to master a few extra tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and tips shown above, you should grow your win rate significantly.
The ideal finished items to prioritize in your Swain and Trundle synergy build include Rylai's Crystal Scepter, Cryptbloom, and Liandry's Torment. When Swain combined at least these three great items in his build, he did a lot better as an ally of Trundle than with many other commonly used builds. In fact, Swain boasted an average win rate of 53.7% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Trundle with this build.
To have the best chance of coming out on top against your oponents, Swain players should use the Conqueror, Presence of Mind, Legend: Tenacity, Last Stand, Manaflow Band, and Transcendence runes from the Precision and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the runes we have analyed for this champion pairing, this mix of runes yielded the top win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 53.7% winrate overall.
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