Swain with Zac
How to Synergize Swain and Zac
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Swain Zac Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Swain and Zac
Tips for Playing as Swain with Zac
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 Zac Will Play
Picking up goo chunks is very important to staying alive.
When Cell Division is ready, try to die in a position that makes it difficult for the enemy team to kill your bloblets.
Charging Elastic Slingshot from the fog of war will give opponents less time to react.
Swain Zac Synergy Stats
How to Play with Zac as Swain in LoL
The Swain Zac synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Zac, 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 Zac. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This negative change shows that Zac helps Swain perform not as well in competitive LoL games. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is only marginal.
When Swain is paired with Zac, he sees a small increase in his full damage output. This difference may demonstrate that Zac provides cover for him to dish out more damage or that his allyship also helps increase the match's duration. Similarly, when Swain is played together with Zac 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 Zac.
Moreover, when Swain plays with Zac on the same side, he typically receives a little more damage than when he fights alone. Receiving more damage could mean that Zac does a poor job of protecting Swain during teamfights.
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Is Swain better when played alongside Zac?
There is no ideal companion for Swain that will 100% of the time be his best ally. However, Zac is a very typical companion for Swain. By being on the same side as Swain, he raises their win rate by 0.5% to 51.8%. This shows that there is not really a strong bond between Swain and Zac that results in them performing at the top of their game together than without each other.
Zac has a lower difficulty than Swain. That means you don't need to be careful when arranging Zac comrades to go into battle on the same side as, as they will need a lower level of skill to fight well with you.
Working together, you should expect to see an overall large increase in your team’s capability to deal magical damage. Combined, these champions can deal quite a lot of AP type damage.
Conversely, by pairing Swain and Zac together, you probably will not be granting your other teammates very much anti-tank damage dealing potential. Make sure to bring other champs on your team that helps cover this relative hole in their capabilities.
Regardless of the ability of your Zac 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 will do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To learn all of the intricacies of Swain in order to pair well with Zac during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League, you should continue reading to learn some more lessons on this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and stats shown here, you should increase your win rate significantly.
The ideal finished items to focus on in your Swain and Zac synergy build include Rylai's Crystal Scepter, Zhonya's Hourglass, and Zaz'Zak's Realmspike. When Swain combined at least these three finished items in his build, he did much better as an ally of Zac than with most other common item sets. In fact, Swain boasted an average winrate of 51.8% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Zac with these items in his kit.
To have the greatest chance of vanquishing 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. Of all the runes players chose for this champion pairing, this mixture of runes yielded the top win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 51.8% win rate overall.
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