Swain with Zed
How to Synergize Swain and Zed
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Swain Zed Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Swain and Zed
Tips for Playing as Swain with Zed
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 Zed Will Play
Placing a Living Shadow before using Death Mark can give Zed a safe escape from combat.
Saving energy and spell cooldowns until you use your ultimate will maximize Death Mark's damage.
Quickly double tapping Living Shadow will teleport Zed to his shadow immediately for rapid escapes.
Swain Zed Synergy Stats
How to Play with Zed as Swain in LoL
The Swain Zed synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Zed, 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 Zed. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This negative change shows that Zed helps Swain perform poorer in ranked League of Legends matches. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Swain is paired with Zed, he gets a small increase in his full damage dealt. This change could indicate that Zed supports by providing cover for him to dish out more damage or that his participation also helps increase the game's duration. Similarly, when Swain is played with Zed on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing alongside Zed.
Moreover, when Swain plays with Zed on the same team, he on average takes a little more damage than when he plays alone. Getting dealt more damage could indicate that Zed does a poor job of covering Swain in teamfights.
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Is Swain better when played alongside Zed?
There is no perfect champion pairing for Swain that will no matter what be his best ally. However, Zed is a below average companion for Swain. By playing on the same side as Swain, he lowers their win rate by -1.1% to 50.2%. This signals that there is a harmful strategic relationship between Swain and Zed that results in them performing not as well together than alone.
Zed has a lower difficulty than Swain. That means Swain players don't need to be careful when arranging Zed comrades to play with, as they will need a lower level of skill to be able to work well with you.
Fighting cooperatively, you will likely observe an overall large increase in your team’s capability to destroy wih physical damage. Combined, these champs should be able to take down targets with auto-attacks and other AD damage abilities.
Conversely, by bringing Swain and Zed together, you probably will not be granting your team very much utility. Plan to include other champions on your team that fills this disparity in this pairing's capabilities.
Regardless of your Zed ally's ability, you need to focus on maximizing your income, outlasting your enemies, and taking down objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you should do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to truly master Swain in order to synergize with Zed during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to learn a few extra lessons on this champion pairing. If you mind the build and stats presented here, you will grow your win rate significantly.
The ideal items to have in your Swain and Zed synergy build consist of Rylai's Crystal Scepter, Zhonya's Hourglass, and Riftmaker. When Swain used at least these three finished items in his build, he performed a lot better as an ally of Zed than with most other typical builds. In fact, Swain had an average winrate of 50.2% when playing alongside Zed with these items in his kit.
To have the greatest probability of vanquishing your oponents, Swain players should take the Conqueror, Presence of Mind, Legend: Tenacity, Last Stand, Manaflow Band, and Transcendence runes from the Precision and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the rune sets players picked for Swain and Zed pairings, this composite of runes yielded the highest win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 50.2% winrate overall.
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