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.
Udyr is one of the best junglers in the game. Taking advantage of this can give your team a large XP advantage and map control.
Damage is applied to turtle shield post-mitigation. Therefore, buying defensive items can drastically increase your survivability.
The Swain Udyr synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Udyr, 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 Udyr. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This decrease shows that Udyr helps Swain perform worse in competitive LoL rounds. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Swain is an ally to Udyr, he gets a small increase in his total damage dealt. This change may demonstrate that Udyr supports by providing protection for him to dish out more damage or that his presence on the team also helps increase the match's duration. Similarly, when Swain is played together with Udyr 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 Udyr.
Moreover, when Swain plays with Udyr on the same team, he on average receives a little less damage than when he fights alone. Getting dealt not as much damage may indicate that Udyr does a decent job of protecting Swain during team fights.
There is no perfect ally for Swain that will 100% of the time be his top synergy. Yet, overall, Udyr is a very typical companion for Swain. By locking into the same team as Swain, he improves their win rate by 0.8% to 52.1%. This proves that there is not really a strong synergy between Swain and Udyr that results in them performing stronger together than without each other.
Udyr has a lower difficulty than Swain. That means Swain players don't need to be cautious when lining up Udyr allies to fight alongside, as they will require a lower level of skill to be able to do well with you.
Playing cooperatively, Swain players will likely witness an overall large increase in your team’s ability to to do a lot of AP damage. Combined, these champs can blast through enemies with magic damage.
Although, by grouping Swain and Udyr together, you may not be providing your other teammates very much crowd control. We recommend you include other champions on your team that nullifies this relative hole in their playstyle.
Regardless of the skill of your Udyr ally, you should focus on increasing your gold income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and taking down objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you should do well anyway.
To truly master Swain to work well with Udyr during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League, you should keep reading to learn some more tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you mind the build and suggestions presented above, you will grow your win rate significantly.
The ideal items to get in your Swain and Udyr synergy build consist of Rylai's Crystal Scepter, Malignance, and Riftmaker. When Swain incorporated at least these three great items in his build, he did significantly better when paired up with Udyr than with many other typical builds. In fact, Swain had an average win rate of 52.1% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Udyr with these items in his kit.
To have the greatest probability of annihilating your oponents, Swain players should equip 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 combinations we have analyed for Swain and Udyr pairings, this mix of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 52.1% win rate overall.
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