Swain with Aphelios
How to Synergize Swain and Aphelios
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Swain Aphelios Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Swain and Aphelios
Tips for Playing as Swain with Aphelios
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.
Advice to Understand How Aphelios Will Play
Each of Aphelios' weapons have different strengths, so try to find the right situation for your current weapons.
Swain Aphelios Synergy Stats
How to Play with Aphelios as Swain in LoL
The Swain Aphelios synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Aphelios, compared to his overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how his gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Swain sees a very large drop in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Aphelios. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Aphelios helps Swain perform not as well in competitive LoL rounds. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Swain plays on the same team as Aphelios, he sees a little decrease in his complete damage output. This change may indicate that Aphelios doesn't help protection for him to dish out more damage or that his allyship also helps increase the game's duration. Similarly, when Swain is played with Aphelios on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing synergisticly with Aphelios.
Additionally, when Swain plays with Aphelios on the same side, he often receives a little less damage than when he fights alone. Taking not as much damage could mean that Aphelios does a decent job of covering Swain in teamfights.
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Is Swain better when played alongside Aphelios?
There is no ideal ally for Swain that will no matter what be his top teammate. Yet, overall, Aphelios is a not very good ally for Swain. By locking into the same team as Swain, he lowers their win rate by -1.1% to 50.2%. This clearly indicates that there is a negative bond between Swain and Aphelios that results in them performing not as well together than alone.
Aphelios has a greater difficulty than Swain. That means Swain players need to be very careful when lining up Aphelios teammates to go into battle on the same side as, as they will need a greater level of skill to fight well with you.
Fighting cooperatively, you will likely see an overall large increase in your team’s ability to to do a lot of AP damage. Together, these two can deal quite a lot of AP type damage.
Although, by pairing Swain and Aphelios together, you will not be providing your side enough crowd control. Make sure to pick other champs on your team that neutralizes this relative disparity in their abilities.
Regardless of the skill of your Aphelios ally, you need to focus on increasing your gold income, outlasting your enemies, and clearing objectives. If you do this, you will do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To truly master Swain to synergize with Aphelios during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends games, you should keep reading to learn a few extra lessons on this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and tips displayed here, you should increase your win rate significantly.
The ideal items to build first in your Swain and Aphelios synergy build include Malignance, Zhonya's Hourglass, and Liandry's Torment. When Swain used at least these three finished items in his build, he performed a lot better as an ally of Aphelios than with most other common builds. In fact, Swain boasted an average winrate of 50.2% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Aphelios with this build.
To have the greatest likelihood of defeating your oponents, you should take the Conqueror, Presence of Mind, Legend: Tenacity, Last Stand, Conditioning, and Overgrowth runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the runes we have analyed for Swain and Aphelios pairings, this mixture of runes yielded the best win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 50.2% win rate overall.
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