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.
Twisted Fate is viable as an Attack Damage or Ability Power character, letting him fit on many different team compositions.
Stealth characters often escape a battle with very low hit points. Take advantage of Destiny's ability to reveal stealthed units to finish them off.
Coordinate with your allies for the best time to use Destiny to ambush enemies.
The Swain Twisted Fate synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Twisted Fate, 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 Twisted Fate. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Twisted Fate helps Swain perform not as well in ranked League of Legends games. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Swain is paired with Twisted Fate, he observes a little decrease in his total damage output. This change may demonstrate that Twisted Fate does not help protection for him to dish out more damage or that his participation also helps increase the match's duration. Similarly, when Swain is played together with Twisted Fate on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing alongside Twisted Fate.
Additionally, when Swain plays with Twisted Fate on the same team, he on average takes a little less damage than when he fights alone. Taking not as much damage could indicate that Twisted Fate does a decent job of protecting Swain in teamfights.
There is no universally accepted best ally for Swain that will no matter what be his best synergy. Yet, overall, Twisted Fate is a very typical companion for Swain. By playing on the same side as Swain, he raises their win rate by 0.3% to 51.6%. This clearly indicates that there is a weak synergy between Swain and Twisted Fate that allows them to perform better together than without each other.
Twisted Fate has a greater difficulty than Swain. That means you need to be very careful when finding Twisted Fate allies to fight alongside, as they will have to have a greater level of skill to do well with you.
Working on the same side, Swain players will likely observe an overall large increase in your team’s capability to to do a lot of AP damage. When paired, these champs can deal quite a lot of AP type damage.
In contrast, by bringing Swain and Twisted Fate together, you probably will not be granting your team enough sustained damage output. Plan to have other champs on your team that neutralizes this gap in this pairing's capabilities.
Regardless of the skill of your Twisted Fate ally, you need to focus on increasing your income, warding to avoid ambushes, and taking down objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you will do well, regardless.
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Swain in order to synergize with Twisted Fate during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League games, you should continue reading to gather additional tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you use the build and suggestions displayed above, you should grow your win rate by a lot.
The most important finished items to have in your Swain and Twisted Fate synergy build include Rylai's Crystal Scepter, Malignance, and Riftmaker. When Swain included at least these three items in his build, he did much better when paired up with Twisted Fate than with most other typical builds. In fact, Swain had an average winrate of 51.6% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Twisted Fate with these items in his kit.
To have the greatest likelihood of vanquishing your oponents, you should equip the Electrocute, Cheap Shot, Eyeball Collection, Ultimate Hunter, Coup de Grace, and Presence of Mind runes from the Domination and Precision rune sets. Of all the rune sets we have analyed for this champion pairing, this mixture of runes yielded the top win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 51.6% win rate overall.
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