Swain vs Lucian
How to Beat Lucian as Swain
based on 8,234 Swain vs Lucian matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Swain vs Lucian Matchup Summary
Best Swain vs Lucian Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Lucian as Swain
Tips for Playing as Swain against Lucian
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 Lucian
Lucian cannot change the aim of The Culling. Take advantage of this by avoiding the angle of the bullets.
Lucian has strong burst, but little sustained damage.
Piercing Light does not give Lucian extra Attack Range. He still needs to find a target in range to line up his shot. Avoid Piercing Light by anticipating the angle Lucian will choose.
Swain vs Lucian Counter Stats
How to Counter Lucian with Swain in LoL
The stats provided here underscore several influential Swain versus Lucian counter statistics that may help us realize the distinctions between this pair of champions. As an example, Swain’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Lucian’s ratio of NaN, indicating that Swain may be more central to his team's team fighting capability than Lucian..
Swain usually has a slightly smaller longest killing spree than his opponent does. Typically, he receives more damage than Lucian. This commonly reflects different amounts of tankyness, yet it can also show that the champ with higher health has less agility and thus is unable to flee from further damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Swain and Lucian
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Who is Better, Swain or Lucian?
Both League champs are great. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Swain usually wins when facing off against Lucian, with a 51.1% win rate. As a result, Swain makes a good counter for Lucian.
While Swain does have a higher winrate than Lucian, when facing one another, Swain also has a greater level of difficulty that makes him a more challenging character to develop with. You still need to be cautious when picking Swain into Lucianas his relative depth means you may not be able to reach his full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Additionally, Swain also has some amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Lucian. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when facing champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion in League of Legends, in Swain vs Lucian matchups, Swain is the better champ with a higher win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during team fights.
Swain is a decent counter for Lucian. Make sure you focus your gameplay on keeping up your gold income and destroying objectives. If you are able to do that, you should do very well as Swain against Lucian.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Swain to counter Lucian during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to gather a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you mind the build and tips presented above, you should increase your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Swain on average racks up less CS relative to Lucian. Champs who on average don't get many minion kills typically don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as supports. They are able to scale properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually need a lot of items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the values shown here to do well.
The ideal items to prioritize in your Swain versus Lucian build include Frozen Heart, Rylai's Crystal Scepter, and Liandry's Torment. When Swain included at least these three pieces in his build, he did significantly better vs. Lucian than with most other common counter builds. In fact, Swain had an average winrate of 51.1% when countering Lucian with these items in his kit.
To have the highest chance of defeating Lucian as Swain, you should equip the Summon Aery, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Scorch, Conditioning, and Overgrowth runes from the Sorcery and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations players used for Swain vs Lucian clashes, this set of runes resulted in the best win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 51.1% winrate overall.
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