Vel'Koz with Swain
How to Synergize Vel'Koz and Swain
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Vel'Koz Swain Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Vel'Koz and Swain
Tips for Playing as Vel'Koz with Swain
Be very careful about when to use Life Form Disintegration Ray. Many champions have abilities that can interrupt the spell.
Shooting Plasma Fission diagonally and splitting at maximum range allows you to hit opponents that are out of the range of the initial missile, but is more challenging to pull off.
When laning, use Void Rift to kill minions while building stacks of Organic Deconstruction on your opponent. You can then follow up with your other abilities.
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.
Vel'Koz Swain Synergy Stats
How to Play with Swain as Vel'Koz in LoL
The Vel'Koz 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, Vel'Koz sees a very large drop in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Swain. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This fall shows that Swain helps Vel'Koz perform worse in competitive LoL matches. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is only marginal.
When Vel'Koz is paired with Swain, he sees a barely noticable drop in his full damage dealt. This change could demonstrate that Swain doesn't help cover for him to deal more damage or that his presence also helps increase the round's duration. Similarly, when Vel'Koz is played together with Swain on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing alongside Swain.
Additionally, when Vel'Koz plays with Swain on the same side, he typically receives a little more damage than when he plays alone. Getting dealt more damage could mean that Swain does a poor job of protecting Vel'Koz in teamfights.
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Is Vel'Koz better when played alongside Swain?
There is no ideal companion for Vel'Koz that will 100% of the time be his best synergy. However, Swain is a very typical ally for Vel'Koz. By being on the same side as Vel'Koz, he lowers their win rate by -0.6% to 49.7%. This clearly indicates that there is a weak synergy between Vel'Koz and Swain that results in them performing worse together than alone.
Swain has a lower difficulty than Vel'Koz. That means you don't need to be careful when arranging Swain teammates to go into battle on the same side as, as they will need a lower level of skill to be able to cooperate well with you.
Working cooperatively, you should expect to witness an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to to do a lot of AP damage. Together, these two can blast through enemies with magic damage.
Although, by aligning Vel'Koz and Swain together, you may not be giving your other teammates enough AD. We recommend you bring other champions on your team that fills this disparity in their abilities.
Regardless of your Swain ally's ability, you should focus on increasing your gold income, warding to avoid ambushes, and taking down objectives. If you do this, you should do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To truly master Vel'Koz in order to pair well with Swain during both the laning and mid / late game phases of LoL matches, you should keep reading to master some more tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you use the build and suggestions shown above, you should grow your win rate significantly.
The most important items to have in your Vel'Koz and Swain synergy build include Malignance, Zaz'Zak's Realmspike, and Shadowflame. When Vel'Koz combined at least these three pieces in his build, he performed a lot better when fighting alongside Swain than with many other commonly used item sets. In fact, Vel'Koz boasted an average win rate of 49.7% helping carry Swain with this build.
To have the greatest chance of vanquishing your oponents, Vel'Koz players should take the Arcane Comet, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Scorch, Biscuit Delivery, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Sorcery and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the rune builds players used for this team composition, this set of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 49.7% winrate overall.
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