Swain with Kha'Zix
How to Synergize Swain and Kha'Zix
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Swain Kha'Zix Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Swain and Kha'Zix
Tips for Playing as Swain with Kha'Zix
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 Kha'Zix Will Play
Enemies are considered isolated if they have no allies within a short distance. The damage of Taste Their Fear is massively increased against these targets.
Unseen Threat activates when Kha'Zix cannot be seen by the enemy team. Reactivate by using brush or Void Assault. Don't forget to apply Unseen Threat by autoattacking enemy champions.
Kha'Zix has a great deal of freedom to choose where and when to fight. Pick your battles carefully to succeed.
Swain Kha'Zix Synergy Stats
How to Play with Kha'Zix as Swain in LoL
The Swain Kha'Zix synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Kha'Zix, 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 Kha'Zix. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Kha'Zix helps Swain perform poorer in ranked LoL matches. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is only marginal.
When Swain is an ally to Kha'Zix, he observes a small increase in his full damage dealt. This change could indicate that Kha'Zix helps provide cover for him to dish out more damage or that his support also helps extend the round's duration. Similarly, when Swain is played alongside Kha'Zix on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing synergisticly with Kha'Zix.
Moreover, when Swain plays with Kha'Zix on the same team, he on average receives a little more damage than when he plays alone. Receiving more damage may mean that Kha'Zix does a poor job of protecting Swain in teamfights.
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Is Swain better when played alongside Kha'Zix?
There is no universally accepted best companion for Swain that will always be his ideal ally. However, Kha'Zix is a very typical companion for Swain. By playing on the same team as Swain, he improves their win rate by 0.6% to 51.9%. This clearly indicates that there is a weak synergy between Swain and Kha'Zix that results in them performing stronger together than without each other.
Kha'Zix has a lower difficulty than Swain. That means Swain players don't need to be cautious when lining up Kha'Zix teammates to go into battle on the same side as, as they will have to have a relatively low level of skill to fight well with you.
Fighting together, you should expect to observe an overall large increase in your team’s ability to to do a lot of AP damage. Together, these champions can blast through enemies with magic damage.
In contrast, by grouping Swain and Kha'Zix together, you probably will not be providing your side a great deal of utility. We recommend you have other champions on your team that fills this relative disparity in this pairing's capabilities.
Regardless of your Kha'Zix ally's ability, you need to focus on maximizing your income, warding to avoid ambushes, and taking down objectives. If you do this, you should 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 Swain in order to work well with Kha'Zix 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 shown above, you will increase your win rate significantly.
The top finished items to use in your Swain and Kha'Zix synergy build consist of Rylai's Crystal Scepter, Zhonya's Hourglass, and Riftmaker. When Swain incorporated at least these three pieces in his build, he performed significantly better when fighting alongside Kha'Zix than with most other common item sets. In fact, Swain boasted an average win rate of 51.9% helping carry Kha'Zix with this build.
To have the greatest chance of beating your oponents, Swain players should use 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 that we analyzed for this team composition, this blending of runes resulted in the top win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 51.9% win rate overall.
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