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.
Even if you're far from a fight you can still help from afar with Mega Inferno Bomb.
Slowing your enemies with Hexplosive Minefield makes it easier to land other abilities.
Knocking yourself over walls with Satchel Charge can be great when chasing after or escaping from enemies.
The Swain Ziggs synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Ziggs, 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 Ziggs. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Ziggs helps Swain perform worse in ranked League games. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Swain is paired with Ziggs, he sees a little decrease in his total damage output. This difference could signal that Ziggs does not support by providing protection for him to dish out more damage or that his participation also helps extend the game's duration. Similarly, when Swain is played alongside Ziggs 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 Ziggs.
Moreover, when Swain plays with Ziggs on the same side, he usually takes a little more damage than when he plays alone. Getting dealt more damage may mean that Ziggs does a poor job of protecting Swain during team fights.
There is no ideal champion pairing for Swain that will no matter what be his best teammate. However, Ziggs is a very bad teammate for Swain. By being on the same side as Swain, he decreases their win rate by -3.3% to 48.0%. This demonstrates that there is a very bad strategic relationship between Swain and Ziggs that results in them performing worse together than alone.
Ziggs has a much lower diffuclty than Swain. That means you don't need to be very careful when lining up Ziggs allies to fight alongside, as they will need a much lower level of skill to do well with you.
Playing together, you will likely observe an overall large increase in your team’s ability to deal magic damage. Combined, these champions can blast through enemies with magic damage.
Conversely, by pairing Swain and Ziggs together, you probably will not be giving your side a great deal of attack damage. Plan to have other champions on your team that neutralizes this hole in their potential.
Regardless of your Ziggs ally's ability, you need to focus on maximizing your income, outlasting your enemies, and taking down objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you will do well, regardless.
To learn all of the intricacies of Swain in order to work well with Ziggs during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League games, you should continue reading to pick up additional lessons on this champion pairing. If you mind the build and stats shown above, you will increase your win rate significantly.
The most important items to include in your Swain and Ziggs synergy build include Rylai's Crystal Scepter, Zhonya's Hourglass, and Liandry's Torment. When Swain incorporated at least these three finished items in his build, he performed significantly better when paired up with Ziggs than with most other common builds. In fact, Swain had an average winrate of 48.0% helping carry Ziggs with this build.
To have the highest likelihood of defeating 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 team composition, this set of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 48.0% win rate overall.
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