Yasuo with Swain
How to Synergize Yasuo and Swain
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Yasuo Swain Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Yasuo and Swain
Tips for Playing as Yasuo with Swain
Last Breath can be cast on any target that is knocked Airborne, even by one of your allies.
Dash through a minion to have Sweeping Blade available to chase your opponent should they flee; Dash directly to your opponent to preserve a minion as your escape route.
At level 18, Yasuo's Steel Tempest reaches its Attack Speed cap with 55% Attack Speed from items.
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.
Yasuo Swain Synergy Stats
How to Play with Swain as Yasuo in LoL
The Yasuo 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, Yasuo sees a very large drop in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Swain. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This negative change shows that Swain helps Yasuo perform poorer in competitive League of Legends games. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Yasuo is paired with Swain, he observes a barely noticable drop in his complete damage dealt. This difference may indicate that Swain does not provide protection for him to deal more damage or that his support also helps increase the round's duration. Similarly, when Yasuo 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 with Swain.
Moreover, when Yasuo plays with Swain on the same team, he typically receives a little less damage than when he plays alone. Getting dealt not as much damage could mean that Swain does a decent job of protecting Yasuo during teamfights.
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Is Yasuo better when played alongside Swain?
There is no universally accepted best champion pairing for Yasuo that will always be his #1 ally. Yet, overall, Swain is a pretty good ally for Yasuo. By locking into the same side as Yasuo, he raises their win rate by 1.3% to 51.9%. This demonstrates that there is a good strategic relationship between Yasuo and Swain that allows them to perform at the top of their game together than without each other.
Swain has a lower difficulty than Yasuo. That means Yasuo players don't need to be cautious when finding Swain teammates to go into battle on the same side as, as they will require a relatively low level of skill to play well with you.
Working alongside, Yasuo players should expect to see an overall large increase in your team’s capability to deal magical damage. Together, these champs can deal quite a lot of AP type damage.
Conversely, by grouping Yasuo and Swain together, you will not be granting your side very much utility. Make sure to bring other champs on your team that fills this relative disparity in this pairing's playstyle.
Regardless of the ability of your Swain teammate, you need to focus on increasing your income, outlasting your enemies, and clearing objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you will do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Yasuo in order to pair well with Swain during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to learn a few extra tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you mind the build and suggestions displayed here, you will increase your win rate by a lot.
The most crucial items to have in your Yasuo and Swain synergy build consist of Guardian Angel, Blade of The Ruined King, and Kraken Slayer. When Yasuo incorporated at least these three finished items in his build, he performed significantly better when paired up with Swain than with many other commonly used builds. In fact, Yasuo boasted an average winrate of 51.9% when playing alongside Swain with this build.
To have the best probability of beating your oponents, Yasuo players should equip the Lethal Tempo, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Coup de Grace, Taste of Blood, and Treasure Hunter runes from the Precision and Domination rune sets. Of all the rune combinations we have analyed for Yasuo and Swain pairings, this blending of runes resulted in the top win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 51.9% winrate overall.
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