Swain with Zilean
How to Synergize Swain and Zilean
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Swain Zilean Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Swain and Zilean
Tips for Playing as Swain with Zilean
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 Zilean Will Play
Time Warp is an effective way to enable allies to finish off enemies, or escape from a losing battle.
Chronoshift is a powerful deterrent to attacking your carries, but casting Chronoshift too early in a fight can cause the enemy to switch targets too soon, making it less effective.
You can combine the use of Time Bomb and Rewind to place two Time Bombs on a target quickly. Placing the second bomb will detonate the first and stun all nearby enemies.
Swain Zilean Synergy Stats
How to Play with Zilean as Swain in LoL
The Swain Zilean synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Zilean, 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 Zilean. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This decrease shows that Zilean helps Swain perform not as well in ranked League rounds. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Swain tries to synergize with Zilean, he sees a noticable increase in his total damage dealt. This change may indicate that Zilean provides cover for him to deal more damage or that his allyship also helps increase the round's duration. Similarly, when Swain is played alongside Zilean on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays without Zilean. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing with Zilean.
Moreover, when Swain plays with Zilean on the same team, he often receives more damage than when he fights alone. Receiving more damage could indicate that Zilean does a poor job of protecting Swain during teamfights.
Synergies between Swain and Zilean
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Is Swain better when played alongside Zilean?
There is no one best synergy for Swain that will 100% of the time be his best teammate. However, Zilean is a pretty good teammate for Swain. By locking into the same side as Swain, he raises their win rate by 2.0% to 53.3%. This proves that there is a good synergy between Swain and Zilean that results in them performing better together than alone.
Zilean has a lower difficulty than Swain. That means you don't need to be very careful when lining up Zilean teammates to play with, as they will have to have a relatively low level of skill to work well with you.
When playing alongside, Swain players should see an overall large increase in your team’s capability to to do a lot of AP damage. Together, these champs can blast through enemies with magic damage.
Although, by pairing Swain and Zilean together, you will not be granting your other teammates much AD. We recommend you pick other champs on your team that fills this relative hole in their abilities.
Regardless of your Zilean ally's ability, you should focus on maximizing your gold income, warding to avoid ambushes, and taking down objectives. If you do this, you should do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To truly master Swain to pair well with Zilean during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends games, you should keep reading to learn some more tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you use the build and suggestions shown above, you should increase your win rate by a lot.
The most important items to build first in your Swain and Zilean synergy build include Rylai's Crystal Scepter, Malignance, and Liandry's Torment. When Swain included at least these three finished items in his build, he did much better as an ally of Zilean than with many other commonly used builds. In fact, Swain boasted an average win rate of 53.3% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Zilean with these items in his kit.
To have the best chance of vanquishing 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 chose for this team composition, this composite of runes yielded the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 53.3% winrate overall.
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