Lulu vs Swain
How to Beat Swain as Lulu
based on 2,064 Lulu vs Swain matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Lulu vs Swain Matchup Summary
Best Lulu vs Swain Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Swain as Lulu
Tips for Playing as Lulu against Swain
Glitterlance can be fired at odd angles depending on where your cursor is - Moving your cursor closer to Pix and Lulu will change your area of effect size considerably.
Consider casting Help, Pix! on ranged attackers for the Pix boost and Wild Growth on Tanks or Fighters for the added initiation power.
Advice to Win Against Swain
Buying an item with Grievous Wounds will make Swain much easier to kill during his Demonic Ascension.
Swain's passive is very potent if you are immobilized. Make sure to be extra careful around enemies who have immobilizing effects.
High mobility counters all of Swain's basic abilities: Death's Hand does more damage the closer he is, Vision of Empire has a very long delay and Nevermove must start returning back to him to be dangerous.
Lulu vs Swain Counter Stats
How to Counter Swain with Lulu in LoL
The stats shown on this page feature some influential Lulu against Swain matchup stats that can help us explain the differences between the pair. As an example, Lulu’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Swain’s KDA ratio of NaN, showing that Lulu may be more central to her team's team fighting capability than Swain. This observation is largely a result of the differences in assists.
Lulu often has a significantly smaller longest killing spree than her enemy does. On average, she receives less damage than Swain. This commonly reflects different amounts of tankyness, but it can also illustrate that the champ with increased health has less mobility and thus is not able to escape additional harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Lulu and Swain
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Who is Better, Lulu or Swain?
Both League of Legends champions are great champions. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Lulu usually loses when playing against Swain, with a 48.2% win rate. Thus, Lulu makes a poor counter for Swain.
While Lulu does have a lower winrate compared to Swain, when facing one another, Lulu also has a lower learning curve that makes her a less time consuming champion to pick up and master. You should be careful when picking Lulu into Swain.
Additionally, Lulu also has a good amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Swain. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when facing champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Lulu vs Swain matchups, Swain is the better champ with a lower win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during team fights.
Lulu is a somewhat poor counter for Swain. Focus your actions on keeping up your gold and cs and taking out objectives. If you do that, you should do very well as Lulu against Swain.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Lulu in order to counter Swain during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to learn a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and stats shown here, you will grow your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Lulu often gets a lot less CS as Swain. Champs who on average don't earn much CS typically don't need much CS to be effective, such as support champions. They are able to scale properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, often require several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the numbers shown here to do well.
The ideal items to prioritize in your Lulu versus Swain build consist of Shurelya's Battlesong, Redemption, and Ardent Censer. When Lulu bought at least these three pieces in her build, she performed a lot better versus Swain than with most other typical item sets. In fact, Lulu had an average win rate of 48.2% battling Swain with this build.
To have the best probability of coming out on top against Swain as Lulu, you should equip the Summon Aery, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Scorch, Biscuit Delivery, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Sorcery and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the runes players used for Lulu vs Swain face-offs, this combo of runes resulted in the best win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 48.2% win rate overall.
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