Udyr is one of the best junglers in the game. Taking advantage of this can give your team a large XP advantage and map control.
Damage is applied to turtle shield post-mitigation. Therefore, buying defensive items can drastically increase your survivability.
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 Udyr 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, Udyr sees a very large drop in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Swain. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This decrease shows that Swain helps Udyr perform not as well in competitive LoL games. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is only marginal.
When Udyr tries to synergize with Swain, he sees a little decrease in his complete damage dealt. This change could indicate that Swain does not help cover for him to dish out more damage or that his participation also helps extend the round's duration. Similarly, when Udyr is played together with 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 alongside Swain.
Additionally, when Udyr plays with Swain on the same side, he usually receives a little less damage than when he fights alone. Receiving not as much damage may mean that Swain does a decent job of protecting Udyr in team fights.
There is no perfect companion for Udyr that will no matter what be his top synergy. Yet, Swain is a pretty good teammate for Udyr. By locking into the same side as Udyr, he raises their win rate by 2.3% to 52.1%. This proves that there is a somewhat important bond between Udyr and Swain that allows them to perform at the top of their game together than without each other.
Swain has a greater difficulty than Udyr. That means Udyr players should be careful when enlisting Swain comrades to go into battle on the same side as, as they will need a greater level of skill to play well with you.
Playing alongside, Udyr players will likely observe an overall large increase in your team’s capability to to do a lot of AP damage. When paired, these two are able to dish out a surprising amount of magic type damage.
Although, by pairing Udyr and Swain together, you will not be providing your other teammates a great deal of support. Make sure to include other champs on your team that neutralizes this relative disparity in their potential.
Regardless of your Swain ally's skill level, you should focus on increasing your income, outlasting your enemies, and taking down objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you will do well, regardless.
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Udyr in order to pair well with Swain during both the lane and mid / late game phases of LoL, you should continue reading to learn a few extra tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and tips displayed here, you should increase your win rate by a lot.
The top items to focus on in your Udyr and Swain synergy build include Kaenic Rookern, Liandry's Torment, and Jak'Sho, The Protean. When Udyr included at least these three great items in his build, he did a lot better when fighting alongside Swain than with many other commonly used builds. In fact, Udyr boasted an average winrate of 52.1% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Swain with these items in his kit.
To have the greatest likelihood of crushing your oponents, you should equip the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Tenacity, Last Stand, Conditioning, and Unflinching runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Of all the rune combinations players used for this champion pairing, this sequence of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 52.1% win rate overall.
By default, tips, statistics, and builds on how to team up Swain with Udyr are given for all skill levels, merged. To scope the stats and builds to a specific skill level, you can use the selection menu located earlier in the counter matchup guide.