Swain with Varus
How to Synergize Swain and Varus
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Swain Varus Synergy Summary
Best Swain vs Varus Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Swain and Varus
Tips for Playing as Swain with Varus
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 Varus Will Play
Try to take advantage of Piercing Arrow's very long range to snipe at enemy champions before a fight or as they're trying to flee.
An early point in Blighted Quiver helps harass enemy champions and get killing blows on minions.
During short range fights it's sometimes best to fire Piercing Arrow quickly, rather than charging it to full power.
Swain Varus Synergy Stats
How to Play with Varus as Swain in LoL
The Swain Varus synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Varus, 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 Varus. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This negative change shows that Varus helps Swain perform not as well in ranked League games. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Swain plays on the same team as Varus, he gets a marginal improvement in his complete damage output. This difference may indicate that Varus provides cover for him to dish out more damage or that his participation also helps extend the round's duration. Similarly, when Swain is played alongside Varus 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 with Varus.
Additionally, when Swain plays with Varus on the same team, he usually takes a little more damage than when he fights alone. Getting dealt more damage may indicate that Varus does a poor job of covering Swain during teamfights.
Synergies between Swain and Varus
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Is Swain better when played alongside Varus?
There is no perfect ally for Swain that will always be his ideal teammate. However, Varus is a below average ally for Swain. By locking into the same team as Swain, he lowers their win rate by -2.4% to 48.9%. This proves that there is a bad bond between Swain and Varus that allows them to perform worse together than without each other.
Varus has a much lower diffuclty than Swain. That means you don't need to be careful when lining up Varus comrades to play with, as they will require a much lower level of skill to be able to cooperate well with you.
Fighting on the same side, you will likely observe an overall large increase in your team’s capability to deal magical damage. When paired, these champs can blast through enemies with magic damage.
In contrast, by bringing Swain and Varus together, you probably will not be granting your other teammates a lot of utility. Make sure to bring other champs on your team that offsets this disparity in their abilities.
Regardless of the skill of your Varus ally, you need to focus on maximizing your gold income, outlasting your enemies, and clearing objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you will do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to truly master Swain in order to work well with Varus during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to learn some more tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you use the build and suggestions shown here, you will increase your win rate significantly.
The most important items to focus on in your Swain and Varus synergy build include Rylai's Crystal Scepter, Malignance, and Solstice Sleigh. When Swain used at least these three items in his build, he performed significantly better when fighting alongside Varus than with many other commonly used builds. In fact, Swain had an average win rate of 48.9% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Varus with this build.
To have the best chance of annihilating your oponents, Swain players should take 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 players chose for this team composition, this mix of runes yielded the highest win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 48.9% win rate overall.
By default, tips, statistics, and builds on how to synergize Varus with Swain are displayed for every ranked division. If you want to scope the statistics and builds to a specific skill level, you should use the selection menu earlier in the counter matchup guide.