Swain vs Lux
How to Beat Lux as Swain
based on 14,665 Swain vs Lux matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Swain vs Lux Matchup Summary
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Guide to Countering Lux as Swain
Tips for Playing as Swain against Lux
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 Lux
When retreating with low health, be prepared to dodge Lux's Final Spark, a red targeting beam fires prior to the main beam, so try to move to the side if possible.
Lux has powerful zone control abilities. Try to spread out and attack from different directions so she cannot lock down a specific area.
Swain vs Lux Counter Stats
How to Counter Lux with Swain in LoL
The stat comparisons shown here emphasize some significant Swain against Lux matchup statistics that can help us explain the differences and similarities between the pair. As an example, Swain’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Lux’s KDA ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Swain may be more central to his team's team fighting capacity than Lux..
Swain usually has a similar longest kill spree as his opponent does. Typically, he receives more damage than Lux. This often reflects differing health capacities, but it can also hint that the champ with higher HP has less agility and thus is not able to flee from additional damage when engaged or poked.
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Who is Better, Swain or Lux?
Both League of Legends champs are great champions. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Swain usually fairs equally well when facing off against Lux, with a 50.3% win rate. Thus, Swain makes an ok counter to Lux.
While Swain does have a higher winrate than Lux, when on opposite teams, Swain also has a much greater learning curve that makes him a more time consuming champ to pick up and master. You should be careful when picking Swain into Luxas his relative depth means you may not be able to unleash his full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Moreover, Swain has some amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Lux. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when trying to counter 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 Lux matchups, Swain is the better champion with a similar win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during teamfights.
Swain is a decent counter to Lux. Make sure you focus your play on keeping up your gold income and destroying objectives. If you do that, you should do very well as Swain against Lux.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Swain to counter Lux during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to pick up a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and tips shown here, you should increase your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Swain usually racks up a similar amount of CS compared to Lux. Champs who on average don't get much CS usualy don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as sup champs. They are able to scale properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, often need several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the numbers reported on this page to do well.
The most crucial items to have in your Swain versus Lux build include Spirit Visage, Rylai's Crystal Scepter, and Zaz'Zak's Realmspike. When Swain bought at least these three items in his build, he performed much better when facing Lux than with most other typical item sets. In fact, Swain had an average winrate of 50.3% when countering Lux with this build.
To have the best probability of coming out on top against Lux as Swain, you should use the Summon Aery, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Scorch, Presence of Mind, and Last Stand runes from the Sorcery and Precision rune sets. Of all the runes players picked for Swain vs Lux fights, this set of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 50.3% winrate overall.
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