Swain with Heimerdinger
How to Synergize Swain and Heimerdinger
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Swain Heimerdinger Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Swain and Heimerdinger
Tips for Playing as Swain with Heimerdinger
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 Heimerdinger Will Play
Spreading out Hextech Micro-Rockets leads to more reliable damage and more efficiency against multiple targets, but focusing it creates the biggest impact.
The success of Electron Storm Grenade is very important to Heimerdinger's survival. The slow and stun both are capable of keeping enemies in place long enough to punish them, but it is also the first line of defense against a surprise attack.
Turret placement can be a deciding factor in a battle. Against most enemies turrets are best when they can support each other, but if the enemy has a lot of area of effect damage your turrets can be destroyed quickly. Placing turrets in brush can lead to a surprise attack in your favor.
Swain Heimerdinger Synergy Stats
How to Play with Heimerdinger as Swain in LoL
The Swain Heimerdinger synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Heimerdinger, 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 large worsening in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Heimerdinger. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Heimerdinger helps Swain perform not as well in ranked LoL matches. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Swain is paired with Heimerdinger, he observes a small decrease in his full damage dealt. This change could demonstrate that Heimerdinger does not provide protection for him to deal more damage or that his presence on the team also helps extend the match's duration. Similarly, when Swain is played alongside Heimerdinger on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing with Heimerdinger.
Additionally, when Swain plays with Heimerdinger on the same team, he typically receives a little more damage than when he plays alone. Getting dealt more damage may mean that Heimerdinger does a poor job of protecting Swain in team fights.
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Is Swain better when played alongside Heimerdinger?
There is no perfect champion pairing for Swain that will always be his ideal synergy. However, overall, Heimerdinger is a below average companion for Swain. By playing on the same team as Swain, he drops their win rate by -1.6% to 49.7%. This clearly indicates that there is a negative bond between Swain and Heimerdinger that allows them to perform not as well together than alone.
Heimerdinger has a lower difficulty than Swain. That means you don't need to be very careful when enlisting Heimerdinger teammates to fight alongside, as they will require a relatively low level of skill to cooperate well with you.
Playing on the same side, you should expect to see an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to to do a lot of AP damage. Combined, these champions can blast through enemies with magic damage.
Although, by pairing Swain and Heimerdinger together, you will not be providing your other allies very much attack damage. Make sure to bring other champs on your team that helps cover this hole in this pairing's potential.
Regardless of your Heimerdinger ally's skill level, you need to focus on maximizing your income, outlasting your enemies, and clearing objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you should do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To truly master Swain to synergize with Heimerdinger during both the early game and mid / late game phases of LoL rounds, you should continue reading to pick up a few extra tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you mind the build and suggestions displayed above, you will grow your win rate by a lot.
The best items to prioritize in your Swain and Heimerdinger synergy build include Rylai's Crystal Scepter, Zaz'Zak's Realmspike, and Liandry's Torment. When Swain combined at least these three pieces in his build, he performed a lot better as an ally of Heimerdinger than with most other typical builds. In fact, Swain boasted an average winrate of 49.7% when playing alongside Heimerdinger with this build.
To have the highest likelihood of beating your oponents, Swain players should equip the Electrocute, Cheap Shot, Eyeball Collection, Ultimate Hunter, Cosmic Insight, and Triple Tonic runes from the Domination and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the rune sets players used for this champion pairing, this composite of runes yielded the best win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 49.7% winrate overall.
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