Swain with Vladimir
How to Synergize Swain and Vladimir
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Swain Vladimir Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Swain and Vladimir
Tips for Playing as Swain with Vladimir
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 Vladimir Will Play
Transfusion instantly deals damage to the enemy before healing Vladimir, making it one of the best last hitting tools in the game.
Cast Hemoplague where it will afflict the most units.
Sanguine Pool pops incoming missiles, so it can be used to dodge disables.
Swain Vladimir Synergy Stats
How to Play with Vladimir as Swain in LoL
The Swain Vladimir synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Vladimir, 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 Vladimir. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Vladimir helps Swain perform worse in ranked LoL rounds. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Swain plays on the same team as Vladimir, he observes a small decrease in his complete damage output. This change may demonstrate that Vladimir doesn't help 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 alongside Vladimir on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays without Vladimir. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing alongside Vladimir.
Additionally, when Swain plays with Vladimir on the same side, he typically receives a little less damage than when he fights alone. Receiving not as much damage may mean that Vladimir does a decent job of covering Swain in team fights.
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Is Swain better when played alongside Vladimir?
There is no one best synergy for Swain that will 100% of the time be his #1 teammate. Yet, Vladimir is a very typical teammate for Swain. By playing on the same side as Swain, he decreases their win rate by -0.7% to 50.6%. This signals that there is not really a strong bond between Swain and Vladimir that allows them to perform worse together than alone.
Vladimir has a lower difficulty than Swain. That means you don't need to be cautious when lining up Vladimir comrades to go into battle on the same side as, as they will require a relatively low level of skill to be able to do well with you.
Fighting on the same side, Swain players will likely observe an overall large increase in your team’s capability to deal magical damage. When paired, these champs can blast through enemies with magic damage.
In contrast, by aligning Swain and Vladimir together, you may not be giving your other teammates much anti-tank damage dealing potential. Plan to have other champions on your team that fills this gap in their abilities.
Regardless of your Vladimir ally's skill level, you should focus on maximizing your gold income, warding to avoid ambushes, and clearing objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you will 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 in order to pair well with Vladimir during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends rounds, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you use the build and tips displayed above, you will grow your win rate significantly.
The best items to get in your Swain and Vladimir synergy build include Zhonya's Hourglass, Zaz'Zak's Realmspike, and Liandry's Torment. When Swain included at least these three pieces in his build, he did much better when fighting alongside Vladimir than with many other common builds. In fact, Swain had an average winrate of 50.6% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Vladimir with these items in his kit.
To have the highest probability of coming out on top against your oponents, you should take the Conqueror, Presence of Mind, Legend: Tenacity, Last Stand, Conditioning, and Overgrowth runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Of all the rune combinations players used for this champion pairing, this blending of runes yielded the top win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 50.6% win rate overall.
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