Swain vs Lulu
How to Beat Lulu as Swain
based on 2,064 Swain vs Lulu matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Swain vs Lulu Matchup Summary
Best Swain vs Lulu Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Lulu as Swain
Tips for Playing as Swain against Lulu
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 Win Against Lulu
Lulu excels when opponents heavily commit. Don't give her this chance! Use heavy harass tactics instead to force Lulu and her partner out of lane.
The shots from Lulu's faerie can be intercepted - hide behind your minions to avoid the additional Faerie attacks.
Swain vs Lulu Counter Stats
How to Counter Lulu with Swain in LoL
The stat comparisons shown on this page show some important Swain against Lulu counter stats that may help you figure out the differences between the two. Swain’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Lulu’s ratio of NaN, indicating that Swain may be more central to his team's team fighting capacity than Lulu. This observation is in large part fueled by the difference in kills.
Swain often has a much larger longest killing spree than his enemy does. Commonly, he receives more damage than Lulu. This typically indicates different amounts of tankyness, yet it can also show that the champion with higher HP has less agility and thus is unable to kite away from further damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Swain and Lulu
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Who is Better, Swain or Lulu?
Both League of Legends champions are great champions. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Swain usually wins when trying to fight Lulu, with a 51.8% win rate. Therefore, Swain makes a good counter to Lulu.
While Swain does have a higher win rate compared to Lulu, when on opposite teams, Swain also has a much greater level of difficulty that makes him a more time consuming character to pick up and master. You still need to be cautious when picking Swain into Luluas his relative depth means that you may not be able to unleash his full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Additionally, Swain also has some amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Lulu. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when fighting champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Swain vs Lulu matchups, Swain is the better champ with a higher win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during teamfights.
Swain is a decent counter to Lulu. You will do well by focussing your gameplay on keeping up your CS and taking out objectives. If you are able to do that, you should hold your own as Swain against Lulu.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Swain to counter Lulu during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to learn a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and tips shown above, you should increase your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Swain usually gets much more CS relative to Lulu. Champs who typically don't get many minion kills often don't require much CS to be effective, such as support champions. They are capable of scaling properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically have to have several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to exceed the values displayed on this page to do well.
The most crucial items to use in your Swain versus Lulu build consist of Rylai's Crystal Scepter, Malignance, and Liandry's Torment. When Swain combined at least these three pieces in his build, he did much better against Lulu than with many other common item sets. In fact, Swain boasted an average win rate of 51.8% when countering Lulu with this counter build.
To have the best chance of vanquishing Lulu as Swain, 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 builds players used for Swain vs Lulu battles, this blending of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 51.8% winrate overall.
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