Janna vs Lucian
How to Beat Lucian as Janna
based on 6,411 Janna vs Lucian matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Janna vs Lucian Matchup Summary
Best Janna vs Lucian Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Lucian as Janna
Tips for Playing as Janna against Lucian
Timing Janna's ultimate can push enemies away from a wounded ally or even separate enemies.
Eye of the Storm can be used on allied turrets.
Quickly firing a Howling Gale without the charge up can be used to heavily disable the other team.
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.
Janna vs Lucian Counter Stats
How to Counter Lucian with Janna in LoL
The stat comparisons provided here highlight several significant Janna vs. Lucian counter stats that may help you distinguish the differences and similarities between this set of champs. Janna’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Lucian’s KDA ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Janna may be more central to her team's team fighting capacity than Lucian. This observation is in large part fueled by the differences in assists.
Janna normally has a significantly smaller longest killing spree than her counter does. Typically, she receives less damage than Lucian. This commonly reflects differing health capacities; however, it can also hint that the champion with higher health has less mobility and thus is unable to flee from further damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Janna and Lucian
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Who is Better, Janna or Lucian?
Both LoL champions are great. Both have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Janna usually wins when taking on Lucian, with a 52.8% win rate. As a result, Janna makes a good counter for Lucian.
While Janna does have a higher winrate than Lucian, when facing one another, Janna also has a greater level of difficulty that makes her a more challenging champion to learn. You should be be fine when picking Janna into Lucianas her relative depth means that you may not be able to unleash her full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Moreover, Janna also has a great amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Lucian. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when fighting champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Janna vs Lucian matchups, Janna is the better champion with a noticably higher win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during late stage team fights.
Janna is an above average counter for Lucian. Focus your strategy on maximizing your CS and destroying objectives. If you can do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Janna against Lucian.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Janna to counter Lucian during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to pick up a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and suggestions presented here, you will increase your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Janna most often gets a lot less CS compared to Lucian. Champs who typically don't get much CS usualy don't have to have much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. They are capable of scaling properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually have to have several high cost items to be effective. In either situation, try to exceed the numbers reported here to do well.
The most crucial items to have in your Janna versus Lucian build include Shurelya's Battlesong, Ardent Censer, and Moonstone Renewer. When Janna included at least these three items in her build, she did significantly better against Lucian than with many other typical builds. In fact, Janna had an average winrate of 52.8% battling Lucian with this counter build.
To have the highest chance of annihilating Lucian as Janna, Janna players should take the Hail of Blades, Cheap Shot, Zombie Ward, Relentless Hunter, Celerity, and Scorch runes from the Domination and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations players used for Janna vs Lucian counterpicks, this set of runes resulted in the best win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 52.8% win rate overall.
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