Bard vs Lucian
How to Beat Lucian as Bard
based on 7,390 Bard vs Lucian matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Bard vs Lucian Matchup Summary
Best Bard vs Lucian Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Lucian as Bard
Tips for Playing as Bard against Lucian
Don't forget that enemies can also use your Magical Journey doorways, and that your ultimate can also hit your allies!
Let your Caretaker's Shrines charge up - they heal for a lot more when at full power.
It's important to collect chimes to improve your meep's attacks, but don't neglect your lane partner! Try to make a big entrance by bringing an ally into the lane with you with Magical Journey.
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.
Bard vs Lucian Counter Stats
How to Counter Lucian with Bard in LoL
The stat comparisons shown on this page highlight several influential Bard vs. Lucian matchup stats that may help you grasp the differences between this pair of champions. For instance, Bard’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Lucian’s ratio of NaN, indicating that Bard may be more central to his team's team fighting potential than Lucian. This observation is in large part fueled by the differences in assists.
Bard usually has a significantly smaller longest killing spree than his counter does. Typically, he receives a similar amount of damage to Lucian. This is usually reflective of differing health capacities, but it can also imply that the champion with more health has less mobility and thus is unable to flee from further damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Bard and Lucian
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Who is Better, Bard or Lucian?
Both LoL champs are great. Both have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Bard usually wins when taking on Lucian, with a 53.1% win rate. As a result, Bard makes a great counter to Lucian.
While Bard does have a higher winrate compared to Lucian, when facing one another, Bard also has a much greater level of difficulty that makes him a more challenging champion to pick up and master. You should be be fine when picking Bard into Lucianas his relative depth means that you may not be able to reach his full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Moreover, Bard also has a good amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Lucian. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when trying to counter champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Bard vs Lucian matchups, Bard is the better champ with a noticably higher win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during teamfights.
Bard is a great counter for Lucian. Focus your actions on increasing your gold and cs and taking out objectives. If you can do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Bard against Lucian.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Bard to counter Lucian during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you listen to the build and suggestions displayed above, you will increase your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Bard often gets a lot less CS relative to Lucian. Champs who on average don't take many minion kills usualy don't have to have much CS to be effective, such as supports. They are able to scale well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot 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 reported on this page to do well.
The most crucial items to have in your Bard versus Lucian build include Locket of the Iron Solari, Bloodsong, and Imperial Mandate. When Bard combined at least these three pieces in his build, he did significantly better versus Lucian than with many other commonly used builds. In fact, Bard had an average winrate of 53.1% when countering Lucian with this build.
To have the greatest chance of vanquishing Lucian as Bard, Bard players should use the Fleet Footwork, Triumph, Legend: Tenacity, Last Stand, Conditioning, and Overgrowth runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the rune builds players chose for Bard vs Lucian counter picks, this mixture of runes resulted in the highest win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 53.1% win rate overall.
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