Shen with Swain
How to Synergize Shen and Swain
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Shen Swain Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Shen and Swain
Tips for Playing as Shen with Swain
Leverage your Energy to get a long-term advantage over Mana users.
Keep an eye on allies and be ready to save them with your teleport.
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.
Shen Swain Synergy Stats
How to Play with Swain as Shen in LoL
The Shen 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, Shen sees a large worsening in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Swain. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This negative change shows that Swain helps Shen perform worse in ranked League matches. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Shen plays on the same team as Swain, he sees a marginal improvement in his total damage dealt. This could indicate that Swain provides protection for him to dish out more damage or that his presence also helps increase the game's duration. Similarly, when Shen is played together with Swain on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing synergisticly with Swain.
Moreover, when Shen plays with Swain on the same side, he usually receives a little more damage than when he plays alone. Receiving more damage could indicate that Swain does a poor job of protecting Shen during teamfights.
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Is Shen better when played alongside Swain?
There is no top companion for Shen that will always be his ideal ally. However, Swain is a decent companion for Shen. By playing on the same side as Shen, he increases their win rate by 2.8% to 52.5%. This demonstrates that there is pretty good synergy between Shen and Swain that allows them to perform better together than without each other.
Swain has a much greater difficulty compared to Shen. That means Shen players must be cautious when lining up Swain allies to go into battle on the same side as, as they will require a much greater level of skill to fight well with you.
Playing alongside, you will likely witness an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to to cover for your other teammates. Together, these champs will be able to tank for the rest of their team.
Although, by aligning Shen and Swain together, you will not be giving your other allies enough sustained damage output. Plan to bring other champs on your team that nullifies this relative hole in their playstyle.
Regardless of the skill of your Swain teammate, you should focus on maximizing 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 Shen to pair well with Swain during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends rounds, you should continue reading to pick up some more lessons on this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and stats presented above, you will grow your win rate significantly.
The ideal items to prioritize in your Shen and Swain synergy build include Kaenic Rookern, Sunfire Aegis, and Titanic Hydra. When Shen included at least these three items in his build, he did a lot better when paired up with Swain than with most other common builds. In fact, Shen boasted an average win rate of 52.5% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Swain with these items in his kit.
To have the greatest likelihood of coming out on top against your oponents, you should use the Aftershock, Shield Bash, Second Wind, Revitalize, Cheap Shot, and Ultimate Hunter runes from the Resolve and Domination rune sets. Of all the rune combinations we have analyed for this team composition, this set of runes yielded the top win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 52.5% winrate overall.
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