Teemo's mushrooms can be used to farm creep waves very effectively.
Place your mushrooms at key locations on the map, such as by the Dragon or Baron Nashor, to reveal when your enemies might be attempting to kill them.
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.
The Teemo Swain synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Swain, compared to his overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how his gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Teemo sees a large worsening in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Swain. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Swain helps Teemo perform not as well in competitive League rounds. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is only marginal.
When Teemo is paired with Swain, he sees a little decrease in his total damage dealt. This change could indicate that Swain does not support by providing protection for him to deal more damage or that his participation also helps extend the round's duration. Similarly, when Teemo is played alongside Swain on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays without Swain. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing with Swain.
Moreover, when Teemo plays with Swain on the same side, he usually receives a little more damage than when he fights alone. Taking more damage may indicate that Swain does a poor job of protecting Teemo during teamfights.
There is no universally accepted best companion for Teemo that will always be his ideal ally. However, Swain is a decent companion for Teemo. By being on the same team as Teemo, he raises their win rate by 1.1% to 53.7%. This proves that there is a potentially meaningful bond between Teemo and Swain that allows them to perform at the top of their game together than alone.
Swain has a greater difficulty than Teemo. That means Teemo players should be very careful when enlisting Swain comrades to fight alongside, as they will need a greater level of skill to be able to fight well with you.
Fighting cooperatively, Teemo players will likely observe an overall large increase in your team’s capability to deal magic damage. Together, these champions are able to dish out a surprising amount of magic type damage.
In contrast, by grouping Teemo and Swain together, you may not be granting your side a lot of attack damage. We recommend you have other champions on your team that fills this hole in this pairing's capabilities.
Regardless of your Swain ally's ability, you should focus on increasing your income, outlasting your enemies, and clearing objectives. If you do this, you should do well, regardless.
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Teemo in order to pair well with Swain during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League, you should continue reading to pick up additional tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and suggestions shown above, you will grow your win rate significantly.
The most important finished items to use in your Teemo and Swain synergy build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Nashor's Tooth, and Malignance. When Teemo used at least these three items in his build, he performed significantly better when paired up with Swain than with most other typical builds. In fact, Teemo boasted an average win rate of 53.7% helping carry Swain with these items in his kit.
To have the highest chance of vanquishing your oponents, you should use the Dark Harvest, Cheap Shot, Eyeball Collection, Ultimate Hunter, Absolute Focus, and Gathering Storm runes from the Domination and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the rune builds players used for this champion pairing, this set of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 53.7% win rate overall.
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