Garen vs Lucian
How to Beat Lucian as Garen
based on 7,473 Garen vs Lucian matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Garen vs Lucian Matchup Summary
Best Garen vs Lucian Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Lucian as Garen
Tips for Playing as Garen against Lucian
Garen is only constrained by cooldowns, making items such as Black Cleaver very effective for him.
Garen's regeneration greatly increases if he can avoid receiving damage for several seconds.
Judgment deals maximum damage when only hitting a single target. For effective trading, try to position such that only the enemy champion is hit.
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.
Garen vs Lucian Counter Stats
How to Counter Lucian with Garen in LoL
The stats provided here clarify some valuable Garen against Lucian matchup stats that can help us distinguish the differences and similarities between the pair. Garen’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Lucian’s KDA ratio of NaN, highlighting that Garen may be more central to his team's team fighting potential than Lucian..
Garen typically has a slightly smaller longest kill spree than his enemy does. On average, he takes more damage than Lucian. This is usually reflective of differing health capacities, but it can also hint that the one champ has less agility and thus is not able to flee from further damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Garen and Lucian
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Who is Better, Garen or Lucian?
Both League of Legends champs are great. Both champs have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Garen usually fairs equally well when trying to fight Lucian, with a 49.1% win rate. Therefore, Garen makes an ok counter to Lucian.
While Garen does have a lower win rate than Lucian, when on opposite teams, Garen also has a lower level of difficulty that makes him a less complex character to learn. You should be careful when picking Garen into Lucian.
Moreover, Garen has almost no amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Lucian. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when fighting champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion in League of Legends, in Garen vs Lucian matchups, Lucian is the better champ with a similar win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during team fights.
Garen is a somewhat poor counter to Lucian. You will do well by focussing your strategy on increasing your gold and cs and clearing objectives. If you are able to do that, you should do very well as Garen against Lucian.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Garen to counter Lucian during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to learn a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you listen to the build and suggestions shown here, you should grow your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Garen often racks up a similar amount of CS relative to Lucian. Champions who on average don't acquire much CS usualy don't require much CS to be effective, such as supports. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually require a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to surpass the numbers reported on this page to do well.
The top items to have in your Garen versus Lucian build consist of Trinity Force, Dead Man's Plate, and Sundered Sky. When Garen incorporated at least these three items in his build, he performed significantly better when fighting Lucian than with many other common builds. In fact, Garen boasted an average win rate of 49.1% battling Lucian with this counter build.
To have the best probability of beating Lucian as Garen, you should equip the Phase Rush, Nimbus Cloak, Celerity, Gathering Storm, Second Wind, and Overgrowth runes from the Sorcery and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the runes players picked for Garen vs Lucian counter picks, this blending of runes resulted in the best win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 49.1% win rate overall.
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