Swain with Kennen
How to Synergize Swain and Kennen
based on 1,166 Swain with Kennen pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Swain Kennen Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Swain and Kennen
Tips for Playing as Swain with Kennen
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 Kennen Will Play
You can land an initial Mark of the Storm debuff on an opponent with Thundering Shuriken, and then add to it with Electrical Surge.
Lightning Rush can be used to initiate fights with its Energy return component, allowing him to use other abilities afterward.
You can stun your opponents by inflicting 3 Marks of the Storm upon them.
Swain Kennen Synergy Stats
How to Play with Kennen as Swain in LoL
The Swain Kennen synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Kennen, 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 Kennen. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This negative change shows that Kennen helps Swain perform not as well in ranked League rounds. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Swain tries to synergize with Kennen, he gets a barely noticable drop in his total damage dealt. This difference may demonstrate that Kennen does not help cover for him to dish out more damage or that his support also helps increase the match's duration. Similarly, when Swain is played with Kennen on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays without Kennen. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing alongside Kennen.
Additionally, when Swain plays with Kennen on the same team, he typically takes a little less damage than when he fights alone. Receiving not as much damage may indicate that Kennen does a decent job of protecting Swain during team fights.
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Is Swain better when played alongside Kennen?
There is no top ally for Swain that will no matter what be his ideal teammate. Yet, Kennen is a relatively poor ally for Swain. By locking into the same team as Swain, he decreases their win rate by -1.1% to 50.2%. This shows that there is a harmful synergy between Swain and Kennen that allows them to perform worse together than without each other.
Kennen has a much lower diffuclty than Swain. That means Swain players don't need to be cautious when arranging Kennen allies to go into battle on the same side as, as they will need a much lower level of skill to do well with you.
Fighting together, you should see an overall large increase in your team’s capability to deal magic damage. Combined, these two can deal quite a lot of AP type damage.
In contrast, by bringing Swain and Kennen together, you will not be giving your team very much anti-tank damage dealing potential. We recommend you include other champs on your team that neutralizes this disparity in this pairing's kit.
Regardless of your Kennen ally's skill level, you need to focus on increasing your income, outlasting your enemies, and clearing objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you should do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To truly master Swain to synergize with Kennen during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League rounds, you should continue reading to master additional lessons on this champion pairing. If you use the build and stats presented here, you will increase your win rate significantly.
The top finished items to focus on in your Swain and Kennen synergy build include Rylai's Crystal Scepter, Zaz'Zak's Realmspike, and Liandry's Torment. When Swain used at least these three pieces in his build, he did much better when paired up with Kennen than with many other typical builds. In fact, Swain had an average win rate of 50.2% helping carry Kennen with this build.
To have the highest probability of vanquishing your oponents, Swain players should equip the Conqueror, Presence of Mind, Legend: Tenacity, Last Stand, Conditioning, and Overgrowth runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Of all the rune sets we have analyed for this champion pairing, this mixture of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 50.2% winrate overall.
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