Swain with Xerath
How to Synergize Swain and Xerath
based on 3,105 Swain with Xerath pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Swain Xerath Synergy Summary
Best Swain vs Xerath Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Swain and Xerath
Tips for Playing as Swain with Xerath
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 Xerath Will Play
If you stun an enemy with Shocking Orb, follow up with a guaranteed center hit on Eye of Destruction.
It's easier to land Arcanopulse on an enemy when they're moving toward or away from you, rather than side to side.
Eye of Destruction will make landing Arcanopulse easier as the target will be slowed.
Swain Xerath Synergy Stats
How to Play with Xerath as Swain in LoL
The Swain Xerath synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Xerath, 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 Xerath. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This fall shows that Xerath helps Swain perform not as well in ranked League of Legends games. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Swain plays on the same team as Xerath, he sees a little decrease in his complete damage dealt. This could indicate that Xerath does not support by providing protection for him to deal more damage or that his support also helps extend the match's duration. Similarly, when Swain is played together with Xerath 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 synergisticly with Xerath.
Moreover, when Swain plays with Xerath on the same team, he usually receives a little more damage than when he plays alone. Getting dealt more damage may indicate that Xerath does a poor job of protecting Swain in team fights.
Synergies between Swain and Xerath
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Is Swain better when played alongside Xerath?
There is no top companion for Swain that will always be his ideal synergy. Yet, Xerath is a very typical companion for Swain. By locking into the same team as Swain, he increases their win rate by 0.6% to 51.9%. This proves that there is not really a strong bond between Swain and Xerath that results in them performing at the top of their game together than alone.
Xerath has a lower difficulty than Swain. That means you don't need to be careful when lining up Xerath allies to fight alongside, as they will have to have a lower level of skill to do well with you.
Fighting alongside, Swain players should witness an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to to do a lot of AP damage. When paired, these two can blast through enemies with magic damage.
Although, by bringing Swain and Xerath together, you will not be giving your team a lot of attack damage. Make sure to include other champs on your team that neutralizes this hole in this pairing's kit.
Regardless of your Xerath ally's skill level, you need to focus on increasing your gold income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and clearing objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you will do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To truly master Swain in order to work well with Xerath during both the early game and mid / late game phases of LoL matches, you should continue reading to master additional tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you use the build and tips displayed here, you will grow your win rate by a lot.
The most important items to use in your Swain and Xerath synergy build consist of Rylai's Crystal Scepter, Riftmaker, and Liandry's Torment. When Swain incorporated at least these three pieces in his build, he did significantly better as an ally of Xerath than with most other commonly used builds. In fact, Swain boasted an average win rate of 51.9% helping carry Xerath with this build.
To have the greatest likelihood of coming out on top against 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 that we analyzed for this champion pairing, this set of runes yielded the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 51.9% winrate overall.
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