Zilean with Swain
How to Synergize Zilean and Swain
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Zilean Swain Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Zilean and Swain
Tips for Playing as Zilean with Swain
Time Warp is an effective way to enable allies to finish off enemies, or escape from a losing battle.
Chronoshift is a powerful deterrent to attacking your carries, but casting Chronoshift too early in a fight can cause the enemy to switch targets too soon, making it less effective.
You can combine the use of Time Bomb and Rewind to place two Time Bombs on a target quickly. Placing the second bomb will detonate the first and stun all nearby enemies.
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.
Zilean Swain Synergy Stats
How to Play with Swain as Zilean in LoL
The Zilean 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, Zilean 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 Zilean perform not as well in ranked League of Legends games. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Zilean tries to synergize with Swain, he gets a little decrease in his total damage dealt. This difference could demonstrate that Swain does not provide protection for him to deal more damage or that his presence on the team also helps increase the game's duration. Similarly, when Zilean is played 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.
Moreover, when Zilean plays with Swain on the same team, he typically receives a little less damage than when he fights alone. Receiving not as much damage could mean that Swain does a decent job of protecting Zilean in team fights.
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Is Zilean better when played alongside Swain?
There is no top ally for Zilean that will no matter what be his best ally. However, Swain is a good companion for Zilean. By locking into the same team as Zilean, he increases their win rate by 2.6% to 53.3%. This shows that there is a potentially meaningful synergy between Zilean and Swain that results in them performing at the top of their game together than alone.
Swain has a greater difficulty than Zilean. That means Zilean players must be very careful when finding Swain teammates to fight alongside, as they will have to have a greater level of skill to play well with you.
Working cooperatively, Zilean players will likely observe an overall large increase in your team’s capability to deal magic damage. When paired, these two can deal quite a lot of AP type damage.
Conversely, by pairing Zilean and Swain together, you may not be giving your other allies a great deal of AD. Make sure to include other champs on your team that fills this hole in this pairing's kit.
Regardless of your Swain ally's ability, you should focus on increasing your gold income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and clearing objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you should do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to truly master Zilean in order to work well with Swain during both the lane and mid / late game phases of LoL, you should continue reading to gather a few extra lessons on this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and tips presented above, you will grow your win rate by a lot.
The top items to have in your Zilean and Swain synergy build include Shurelya's Battlesong, Solstice Sleigh, and Imperial Mandate. When Zilean used at least these three great items in his build, he did much better when paired up with Swain than with most other commonly used item sets. In fact, Zilean boasted an average winrate of 53.3% helping carry Swain with these items in his kit.
To have the best probability of defeating your oponents, you should use the Summon Aery, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Waterwalking, Cheap Shot, and Relentless Hunter runes from the Sorcery and Domination rune sets. Of all the rune sets players picked for this team composition, this combination of runes yielded the top win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 53.3% win rate overall.
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