Weapons are the backbone of your power in League of Legends Swarm. Choosing weapons that not only deal significant damage but also synergize effectively with each other is key to survival and victory. While every weapon in Swarm can be viable depending on your champion and playstyle, understanding how each weapon scales and what stats amplify its power is crucial for optimizing your builds. Some weapons are more niche, excelling in specific situations, while others offer consistent performance across various scenarios. Each weapon in Swarm provides a base set of bonuses, such as increased damage, but the true potential lies in understanding and leveraging their scaling attributes. For example, a weapon that evolves with health regeneration might also scale impressively with raw damage, creating powerful combinations.
This guide will delve into each weapon available in LOL Swarm, clearly outlining its scaling attributes and how to maximize its effectiveness. Understanding these scaling mechanics is just as important as knowing the evolution stat for each weapon. While a specific stat is required to evolve a weapon and unlock its full potential, focusing on other stats that synergize with its scaling can significantly boost its overall performance.
For a detailed breakdown of how to evolve each weapon and unlock its upgrades, we recommend checking out our companion article: How to Evolve Weapons in LOL Swarm: A Complete Guide. This guide will provide step-by-step instructions to ensure you’re evolving your weapons efficiently.
Navigating the wealth of information in Swarm can initially feel overwhelming, but Riot Games has implemented helpful in-game tools to assist you. A simple yet effective tip is to press and hold the Shift key during gameplay. This action brings up a weapon list on the left side of your screen. You can then easily find the weapon you’re interested in and see its associated evolution stat and scaling attributes. Furthermore, the game provides visual cues through icons under each Augment section, indicating stat synergies. Finally, hovering your cursor over your hotbar will display a detailed breakdown of each weapon and ability you currently have equipped, offering a quick reference during intense swarm battles.
Damage Scaling Weapons
These weapons evolve with Damage and their effectiveness is further amplified by stats that boost raw damage, ability usage, and area of effect.
Anti-Shark Sea Mine
Weapon Description: Deploys bouncing explosives that ricochet between enemies, delivering area-of-effect damage.
- Evolve Stat: Damage
- Scaling Stats: Damage, Ability Haste, Area Size
Final City Transit
Weapon Description: Summons a train that charges through enemies in a line, inflicting significant damage and crowd control.
- Evolve Stat: Damage
- Scaling Stats: Damage, Ability Haste, Critical Chance, Armor
Movement Speed Scaling Weapons
These weapons evolve with Movement Speed, rewarding agile playstyles and kiting strategies.
Blade-o-range
Weapon Description: Launches boomerang-like projectiles that return to you after hitting enemies, dealing damage on both passes.
- Evolve Stat: Movement Speed
- Scaling Stats: Damage, Ability Haste, Critical Chance, Projectile Count
Paw Print Poisoner
Weapon Description: Leaves a trail of damaging poison in your wake as you move, similar to Singed’s Poison Trail, dealing continuous damage to enemies who follow you.
- Evolve Stat: Movement Speed
- Scaling Stats: Damage, Area Size, Duration, Movement Speed
Ability Haste Scaling Weapons
These weapons evolve with Ability Haste, allowing for more frequent weapon activations and spell casts.
Lioness’s Lament
Weapon Description: Fires crescent-shaped projectiles to your left and right, hitting enemies in a wide arc.
- Evolve Stat: Ability Haste
- Scaling Stats: Damage, Ability Haste, Critical Chance, Projectile Count
UwU Blaster
Weapon Description: Rapidly fires projectiles at the closest enemies, prioritizing nearby threats.
- Evolve Stat: Ability Haste
- Scaling Stats: Damage, Ability Haste, Critical Chance, Projectile Count
Projectile Count Scaling Weapons
This weapon evolves with Projectile Count, unleashing a barrage of attacks.
Echoing Batblade
Weapon Description: Fires piercing projectiles that bounce off walls, hitting multiple enemies in confined spaces.
- Evolve Stat: Projectile Count
- Scaling Stats: Damage, Ability Haste, Critical Chance, Projectile Count
Duration Scaling Weapons
These weapons evolve with Duration, extending their active time and impact on the battlefield.
Gatling Bunny-Guns
Weapon Description: Sprays a cone of projectiles, dealing damage to enemies in a frontal area.
- Evolve Stat: Duration
- Scaling Stats: Damage, Ability Haste, Duration
T.I.B.B.E.R.S
Weapon Description: Summons Tibbers, Annie’s fearsome bear, to fight alongside you. Tibbers prioritizes enemies with the highest health, acting as a durable damage soak and damage dealer.
- Evolve Stat: Duration
- Scaling Stats: Damage, Ability Haste, Duration, Movement Speed
Area Size Scaling Weapons
These weapons evolve with Area Size, expanding their reach and effectiveness against groups of enemies.
Ani-Mines
Weapon Description: Deploys timed explosive projectiles in a ring around you, detonating after a short delay to damage enemies in a large area.
- Evolve Stat: Area Size
- Scaling Stats: Damage, Ability Haste, Area Size, Projectile Count
Searing Shortbow
Weapon Description: Fires projectiles that create lingering fire areas upon impact, dealing damage over time to enemies who walk through them.
- Evolve Stat: Area Size
- Scaling Stats: Damage, Ability Haste, Area Size, Projectile Count, Duration
Critical Chance Scaling Weapons
These weapons evolve with Critical Chance, rewarding high-risk, high-reward builds focused on lucky strikes.
Battle Bunny Crossbow
Weapon Description: Fires a cone of projectiles in random directions with a bonus critical chance. Projectiles can critically strike and pierce through enemies, maximizing damage output in chaotic fights.
- Evolve Stat: Critical Chance
- Scaling Stats: Damage, Ability Haste, Critical Chance, Projectile Count
Bunny Mega-Blast
Weapon Description: Calls down orbital strikes on random enemies, delivering massive burst damage from above.
- Evolve Stat: Critical Chance
- Scaling Stats: Damage, Ability Haste, Area Size, Critical Chance
Armor Scaling Weapons
This weapon evolves with Armor, providing defensive utility and damage mitigation.
Iceblast Armor
Weapon Description: Creates a shield that blocks incoming damage and freezes nearby enemies upon breaking. Scales with armor and max health for increased durability and crowd control.
- Evolve Stat: Armor
- Scaling Stats: Damage, Ability Haste, Area Size, Duration, Armor
Max Health Scaling Weapons
These weapons evolve with Max Health, making them ideal for tankier champions and builds.
Radiant Field
Weapon Description: Pulses damage to nearby enemies, providing consistent area-of-effect damage in close-quarters combat.
- Evolve Stat: Max Health
- Scaling Stats: Damage, Area Size, Max Health
Statikk Sword
Weapon Description: Unleashes lightning bolts that bounce between enemies, dealing chain lightning damage to multiple targets.
- Evolve Stat: Max Health
- Scaling Stats: Damage, Ability Haste, Area Size, Critical Chance, Duration
Health Regeneration Scaling Weapons
These weapons evolve with Health Regeneration, rewarding sustain-focused builds.
Cyclonic Slicers
Weapon Description: Summons orbiting projectiles that damage and knock back enemies, providing both damage and crowd control.
- Evolve Stat: Health Regeneration
- Scaling Stats: Damage, Ability Haste, Area Size, Projectile Count, Duration
Vortex Glove
Weapon Description: Fires a rotating stream of projectiles in a spiral pattern, delivering consistent damage in a focused area.
- Evolve Stat: Health Regeneration
- Scaling Stats: Damage, Critical Chance, Projectile Count
Pickup Radius Scaling Weapons
This weapon evolves with Pickup Radius, improving resource gathering and experience acquisition.
YuumiBot
Weapon Description: Summons YuumiBot, a robotic version of Yuumi, to fight alongside you. YuumiBot damages enemies, picks up experience points, and knocks up enemies, offering a versatile support and damage hybrid.
- Evolve Stat: Pickup Radius
- Scaling Stats: Damage, Ability Haste, Area Size, Duration, Pickup Radius
Experience Scaling Weapons
This weapon evolves with Experience, accelerating your progression and power spikes.
The Annihilator
Weapon Description: Triggers a massive explosion that instantly eliminates all normal enemies on screen and deals significant damage to elite enemies, providing a powerful wave clear tool.
- Evolve Stat: EXP
- Scaling Stats: Damage, Ability Haste, Area Size
Champion Upgrades
These upgrades enhance your champion’s basic attacks and abilities, providing unique scaling options tailored to each champion’s kit.
Bunny Hop – Riven
Champion: Riven
Upgrade Description: Riven passively gains movement speed and builds up a charge as she moves. At maximum charge, she automatically jumps forward. Every second jump also knocks up enemies, adding crowd control to her mobility.
- Evolve Stat: Movement Speed
- Scaling Stats: Damage, Area Size, Critical Chance, Movement Speed
Guiding Hex – Aurora
Champion: Aurora
Upgrade Description: Aurora fires a hex projectile that she can guide in flight. Enemies hit take damage and are hexed. Every 3rd cast of this spell purges hexed targets, dealing bonus damage, enhancing her spellcasting and burst potential.
- Evolve Stat: Experience
- Scaling Stats: Damage, Ability Haste, Critical Chance, Projectiles, Experience
Meow Meow – Jinx
Champion: Jinx
Upgrade Description: Jinx fires a stream of bullets in a targeted direction, transforming her auto-attacks into a directional cone of fire.
- Evolve Stat: Ability Haste
- Scaling Stats: Damage, Ability Haste, Critical Chance, Projectile Count
Pillory Swipe – Briar
Champion: Briar
Upgrade Description: Briar sweeps in front of her, dealing damage in an arc. This upgrade enhances her close-range combat capabilities.
- Evolve Stat: Max Health
- Scaling Stats: Damage, Ability Haste, Area Size, Critical Chance, Max Health
Shield Slam – Leona
Champion: Leona
Upgrade Description: Leona slams her shield in a cone, dealing damage to enemies in front of her. This provides Leona with an offensive option to complement her tankiness and crowd control.
- Evolve Stat: Armor
- Scaling Stats: Damage, Ability Haste, Area Size, Critical Chance, Armor
Sound Wave – Seraphine
Champion: Seraphine
Upgrade Description: Seraphine sends out a sound wave, damaging and slowing enemies hit. This upgrade adds utility and crowd control to her damage output.
- Evolve Stat: Projectile Count
- Scaling Stats: Damage, Ability Haste, Critical Chance, Projectile Count, Duration
Steel Tempest – Yasuo
Champion: Yasuo
Upgrade Description: Yasuo builds flow as he moves and dashes. At 100 flow stacks, he unleashes a whirlwind, adding a ranged crowd control option to his kit.
- Evolve Stat: Critical Chance
- Scaling Stats: Damage, Ability Haste, Critical Chance, Projectile Count
Tentacle Slam – Illaoi
Champion: Illaoi
Upgrade Description: Illaoi slams the ground, dealing damage and spawning a tentacle that attacks nearby enemies. This upgrade enhances her area control and sustained damage potential.
- Evolve Stat: Duration
- Scaling Stats: Damage, Ability Haste, Area Size, Duration
Winged Dagger – Xayah
Champion: Xayah
Upgrade Description: Xayah throws a dagger forward that pierces through enemies, leaving a dagger on the ground. This upgrade enhances her lane control and sustained damage.
- Evolve Stat: Pickup Radius
- Scaling Stats: Damage, Ability Haste, Critical Chance, Projectile Count, Duration
Conclusion
This guide breaks down every weapon and champion upgrade in LOL Swarm, detailing their evolution stats and scaling attributes. We hope this information empowers you to make informed decisions when building your champion and choosing your weapon upgrades. Experiment with different combinations and find what best suits your playstyle! While some weapons might seem less impactful than others, and certain champions might feel weaker initially, remember that LOL Swarm encourages experimentation and personal preference. There’s no single “right” way to play – the most effective approach is the one you find most enjoyable and successful.
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