Swain with Veigar
How to Synergize Swain and Veigar
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Swain Veigar Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Swain and Veigar
Tips for Playing as Swain with Veigar
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 Veigar Will Play
Veigar is extremely Mana and Cooldown Reduction dependent. Try buying items with these stats in order to increase the effectiveness of your passive and Baleful Strike.
Veigar is very fragile. It is valuable to select at least one summoner spell that can be used defensively.
Use Event Horizon to increase your chances of landing Dark Matter.
Swain Veigar Synergy Stats
How to Play with Veigar as Swain in LoL
The Swain Veigar synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Veigar, 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 large worsening in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Veigar. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This negative change shows that Veigar helps Swain perform not as well in ranked League games. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Swain is an ally to Veigar, he gets a little decrease in his total damage output. This change could indicate that Veigar does not help protection for him to deal more damage or that his allyship also helps increase the game's duration. Similarly, when Swain is played together with Veigar on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing alongside Veigar.
Moreover, when Swain plays with Veigar on the same side, he usually receives a little less damage than when he plays alone. Taking not as much damage could indicate that Veigar does a decent job of covering Swain during team fights.
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Is Swain better when played alongside Veigar?
There is no one best companion for Swain that will always be his best teammate. However, overall, Veigar is a very typical companion for Swain. By locking into the same team as Swain, he increases their win rate by 0.1% to 51.4%. This proves that there is a weak strategic relationship between Swain and Veigar that results in them performing stronger together than without each other.
Veigar has a lower difficulty than Swain. That means Swain players don't need to be cautious when finding Veigar comrades to play with, as they will have to have a relatively low level of skill to fight well with you.
Playing alongside, Swain players should expect to see an overall large increase in your team’s ability to deal magic damage. When paired, these two can blast through enemies with magic damage.
Although, by grouping Swain and Veigar together, you probably will not be providing your side very much sustained damage output. Plan to bring other champions on your team that offsets this disparity in their abilities.
Regardless of your Veigar ally's skill level, you need to focus on increasing your income, outlasting your enemies, and clearing objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you should do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To learn all of the intricacies of Swain to pair well with Veigar during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends matches, you should continue reading to master additional tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and suggestions displayed above, you will increase your win rate significantly.
The ideal finished items to get in your Swain and Veigar synergy build include Rylai's Crystal Scepter, Malignance, and Solstice Sleigh. When Swain bought at least these three items in his build, he performed much better when paired up with Veigar than with most other typical builds. In fact, Swain had an average win rate of 51.4% helping carry Veigar with this build.
To have the greatest likelihood of annihilating your oponents, Swain players should use 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 builds players used for Swain and Veigar pairings, this combo of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 51.4% win rate overall.
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