Bard vs Lucian
How to Beat Lucian as Bard
based on 1,460 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 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.
Lucian cannot change the aim of The Culling. Take advantage of this by avoiding the angle of the bullets.
Bard vs Lucian Counter Stats
How to Counter Lucian with Bard in LoL
The stat comparisons shown here underscore some influential Bard versus Lucian counter statistics that can help you distinguish the distinctions between this set of champs. As an example, Bard’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Lucian’s KDA 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 a result of the differences in assists.
Bard usually has a significantly smaller longest kill spree than his enemy does. On average, he receives a similar amount of damage to Lucian. This is usually reflective of differing health capacities, yet it can also imply that the champion with higher health has less agility and thus is not able to escape further harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Bard and Lucian
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Who is Better, Bard or Lucian?
Both League of Legends champions are great. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Bard usually wins when trying to fight Lucian, with a 54.5% win rate. Thus, Bard makes a great counter to Lucian.
While Bard does have a much higher win rate than Lucian, when they face off with one another, Bard also has a much greater level of difficulty that makes him a more time consuming champ to develop with. You don't need to be too worried when picking Bard into Lucianas his relative depth means you may not be able to unleash his full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Moreover, Bard has a good amount of CC and other utility, 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 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 allied champions during team fights.
Bard is a great counter for Lucian. Focus your gameplay on increasing your gold income and clearing objectives. If you do that, you should hold your own as Bard against Lucian.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Bard to counter Lucian during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to learn a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you mind the build and tips shown above, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Bard on average accumulates a lot less CS compared to Lucian. Champs who typically don't acquire much CS usualy don't have to have much CS to be effective, such as support champions. They are capable of scaling properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually have to have a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the numbers displayed here to do well.
The ideal items to use in your Bard versus Lucian build consist of Locket of the Iron Solari, Dead Man's Plate, and Shard of True Ice. When Bard used at least these three pieces in his build, he did significantly better vs. Lucian than with many other common item sets. In fact, Bard boasted an average winrate of 54.5% when playing against Lucian with this counter build.
To have the highest chance of vanquishing Lucian as Bard, you should equip the Guardian, Font of Life, Bone Plating, Unflinching, Zombie Ward, and Relentless Hunter runes from the Resolve and Domination rune sets. Out of all the runes players used for Bard vs Lucian fights, this order of runes yielded the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 54.5% win rate overall.
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