Swain with Yorick
How to Synergize Swain and Yorick
based on 3,209 Swain with Yorick pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Swain Yorick Synergy Summary
Best Swain vs Yorick Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Swain and Yorick
Tips for Playing as Swain with Yorick
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 Yorick Will Play
You do not need to cast Awakening to regain the ability to cast Last Rites.
You can send the Maiden down a lane alone, be careful though, as she represents a large portion of your combat power.
The Maiden will attempt to assist you in a fight, so choose your targets well.
Swain Yorick Synergy Stats
How to Play with Yorick as Swain in LoL
The Swain Yorick synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Yorick, 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 Yorick. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Yorick helps Swain perform poorer in competitive LoL games. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Swain plays on the same team as Yorick, he sees a little decrease in his complete damage output. This could signal that Yorick does not support by providing cover for him to dish out more damage or that his allyship also helps increase the round's duration. Similarly, when Swain is played together with Yorick on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing alongside Yorick.
Additionally, when Swain plays with Yorick on the same team, he usually takes a little less damage than when he plays alone. Getting dealt not as much damage may indicate that Yorick does a decent job of protecting Swain during team fights.
Synergies between Swain and Yorick
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Is Swain better when played alongside Yorick?
There is no one best champion pairing for Swain that will always be his top synergy. However, Yorick is a decent companion for Swain. By being on the same side as Swain, he improves their win rate by 1.5% to 52.8%. This clearly indicates that there is a somewhat important bond between Swain and Yorick that allows them to perform stronger together than alone.
Yorick has a lower difficulty than Swain. That means you don't need to be very careful when lining up Yorick teammates to fight alongside, as they will have to have a relatively low level of skill to be able to do well with you.
Working alongside, Swain players should expect to witness an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to deal magic damage. Together, these two can deal quite a lot of AP type damage.
In contrast, by pairing Swain and Yorick together, you will not be providing your other allies enough support. We recommend you include other champions on your team that helps cover this gap in this pairing's abilities.
Regardless of the skill of your Yorick ally, you should focus on increasing your gold income, warding to avoid ambushes, and clearing objectives. If you do this, you should do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Swain to synergize with Yorick during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League games, you should continue reading to master some more tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and suggestions presented above, you will increase your win rate significantly.
The top finished items to have in your Swain and Yorick synergy build consist of Rylai's Crystal Scepter, Zhonya's Hourglass, and Liandry's Torment. When Swain incorporated at least these three finished items in his build, he did much better as an ally of Yorick than with many other common builds. In fact, Swain boasted an average winrate of 52.8% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Yorick with these items in his kit.
To have the greatest chance of crushing 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 combinations we have analyed for Swain and Yorick pairings, this sequence of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 52.8% winrate overall.
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