Heimerdinger vs Lucian
How to Beat Lucian as Heimerdinger
based on 2,984 Heimerdinger vs Lucian matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Heimerdinger vs Lucian Matchup Summary
Best Heimerdinger vs Lucian Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Lucian as Heimerdinger
Tips for Playing as Heimerdinger against Lucian
Spreading out Hextech Micro-Rockets leads to more reliable damage and more efficiency against multiple targets, but focusing it creates the biggest impact.
The success of Electron Storm Grenade is very important to Heimerdinger's survival. The slow and stun both are capable of keeping enemies in place long enough to punish them, but it is also the first line of defense against a surprise attack.
Turret placement can be a deciding factor in a battle. Against most enemies turrets are best when they can support each other, but if the enemy has a lot of area of effect damage your turrets can be destroyed quickly. Placing turrets in brush can lead to a surprise attack in your favor.
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.
Heimerdinger vs Lucian Counter Stats
How to Counter Lucian with Heimerdinger in LoL
The stats shown here highlight some valuable Heimerdinger vs. Lucian matchup stats that can help you understand the distinctions between the two. Heimerdinger’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Lucian’s KDA ratio of NaN, indicating that Heimerdinger may be more central to his team's team fighting potential than Lucian..
Heimerdinger often has a slightly smaller longest killing spree than his matchup does. On average, he takes a similar amount of damage to Lucian. This typically indicates different amounts of tankyness, but it can also imply that the champion with higher health has less agility and thus is unable to flee from further harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Heimerdinger and Lucian
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Who is Better, Heimerdinger or Lucian?
Both LoL champs are great. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Heimerdinger usually wins when trying to fight Lucian, with a 51.5% win rate. As a result, Heimerdinger makes a good counter for Lucian.
While Heimerdinger does have a higher win rate compared to Lucian, when on opposite teams, Heimerdinger also has a greater difficulty level that makes him a more complex character to pick up and master. You should be careful when picking Heimerdinger into Lucianas his relative depth means you may not be able to reach his full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Additionally, Heimerdinger also has a good amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Lucian. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when facing champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion overall in League of Legends, in Heimerdinger vs Lucian matchups, Heimerdinger is the better champ with a higher win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during teamfights.
Heimerdinger is a decent counter to Lucian. 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 Heimerdinger against Lucian.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Heimerdinger 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 tricks and insights into this matchup. If you mind the build and stats presented here, you should increase your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Heimerdinger usually picks up a similar amount of CS compared to Lucian. Champions who on average don't earn many minion kills often don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. These kinds of champions 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, often require many items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the values displayed here to do well.
The most important items to have in your Heimerdinger versus Lucian build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Rylai's Crystal Scepter, and Liandry's Torment. When Heimerdinger included at least these three pieces in his build, he performed significantly better vs. Lucian than with most other common builds. In fact, Heimerdinger boasted an average winrate of 51.5% when countering Lucian with this counter build.
To have the greatest likelihood of crushing Lucian as Heimerdinger, you should equip the Arcane Comet, Manaflow Band, Absolute Focus, Scorch, Magical Footwear, and Biscuit Delivery runes from the Sorcery and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations players chose for Heimerdinger vs Lucian counterpicks, this mix of runes yielded the highest win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 51.5% win rate overall.
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