Tristana with Swain
How to Synergize Tristana and Swain
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Tristana Swain Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Tristana and Swain
Tips for Playing as Tristana with Swain
Use Rapid Fire to help stack up your Explosive Charge on enemy champions.
Her massive gun allows Tristana to fire on targets at a great distance. Utilize this to prevent your enemies from ever laying a hand on you.
Use Rocket Jump after you have stacked up your Explosive Charge on an enemy to finish them off with a burst of damage.
Advice to Understand How Swain Will Play
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.
Tristana Swain Synergy Stats
How to Play with Swain as Tristana in LoL
The Tristana Swain synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of her gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Swain, compared to her overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how her gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Tristana sees a large worsening in her KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Swain. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Swain helps Tristana perform worse in competitive League matches. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Tristana is paired with Swain, she gets a barely noticable drop in her full damage output. This difference could demonstrate that Swain doesn't help protection for her to dish out more damage or that his presence on the team also helps increase the game's duration. Similarly, when Tristana is played with Swain on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when she plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing alongside Swain.
Additionally, when Tristana plays with Swain on the same team, she typically takes a little less damage than when she plays alone. Getting dealt not as much damage could indicate that Swain does a decent job of covering Tristana in teamfights.
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Is Tristana better when played alongside Swain?
There is no ideal synergy for Tristana that will always be her best teammate. Yet, Swain is a pretty good ally for Tristana. By being on the same team as Tristana, he improves their win rate by 1.8% to 50.7%. This shows that there is pretty good strategic relationship between Tristana and Swain that allows them to perform stronger together than without each other.
Swain has a much greater difficulty compared to Tristana. That means you need to be careful when enlisting Swain comrades to fight alongside, as they will have to have a much higher level of skill to work well with you.
Fighting on the same side, Tristana players should witness an overall large increase in your team’s capability to to do a lot of AP damage. Combined, these two can blast through enemies with magic damage.
Although, by bringing Tristana and Swain together, you probably will not be giving your other allies very much utility. Make sure to pick other champs on your team that offsets this relative disparity in their kit.
Regardless of your Swain ally's skill level, you should focus on maximizing your income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and clearing objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you will do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Tristana to synergize with Swain during both the laning and mid / late game phases of LoL rounds, you should continue reading to gather additional tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you use the build and stats displayed here, you will increase your win rate by a lot.
The most important finished items to focus on in your Tristana and Swain synergy build include Guardian Angel, Lord Dominik's Regards, and Kraken Slayer. When Tristana bought at least these three great items in her build, she performed significantly better when fighting alongside Swain than with most other commonly used item sets. In fact, Tristana had an average winrate of 50.7% helping carry Swain with these items in her kit.
To have the greatest chance of defeating your oponents, Tristana players should use the Press the Attack, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Coup de Grace, Taste of Blood, and Treasure Hunter runes from the Precision and Domination rune sets. Of all the rune sets players picked for Tristana and Swain pairings, this mixture of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 50.7% win rate overall.
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