Jayce vs Lucian
How to Beat Lucian as Jayce
based on 3,444 Jayce vs Lucian matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Jayce vs Lucian Matchup Summary
Best Jayce vs Lucian Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Lucian as Jayce
Tips for Playing as Jayce against Lucian
For increased range and damage, try casting Shock Blast through the Acceleration Gate.
If you find yourself taking lots of damage, try using Jayce's Hammer Stance, as it grants you additional defenses.
Be sure to switch stances often. It will enhance your attacks and grant you quick bursts of speed.
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.
Jayce vs Lucian Counter Stats
How to Counter Lucian with Jayce in LoL
The stat comparisons shown on this page clarify some strategic Jayce vs. Lucian matchup statistics that can help you appreciate the distinctions between the two. As an example, Jayce’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Lucian’s ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Jayce may be more central to his team's team fighting capacity than Lucian..
Jayce typically has a slightly smaller longest kill spree than his counter does. On average, he takes a similar amount of damage to Lucian. This often reflects differing health capacities, but it can also indicate that the one champ has less agility and thus is not able to kite away from further damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Jayce and Lucian
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Who is Better, Jayce or Lucian?
Both League of Legends champions are great. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Jayce usually loses when playing against Lucian, with a 48.5% win rate. As a result, Jayce makes a bad counter for Lucian.
While Jayce does have a lower win rate than Lucian, when they face off with one another, Jayce also has a greater learning curve that makes him a more challenging champion to pick up and master. You still need to be cautious when picking Jayce into Lucianas his relative depth means you may not be able to reach his full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Additionally, Jayce also has only a small amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Lucian. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when facing champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Jayce vs Lucian matchups, Lucian is the better champ with a lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during team fights.
Jayce is a somewhat poor counter for Lucian. Focus your play on maximizing your CS and destroying objectives. If you are able to do that, you should hold your own as Jayce against Lucian.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Jayce to counter Lucian during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to gather a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and tips shown here, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Jayce usually racks up a similar amount of CS as Lucian. Champions who typically don't earn many minion kills often don't need much CS to be valuable teammates, such as supports. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically require a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the values displayed here to do well.
The most important items to focus on in your Jayce versus Lucian build include Muramana, Youmuu's Ghostblade, and Eclipse. When Jayce combined at least these three items in his build, he performed much better versus Lucian than with most other typical counter builds. In fact, Jayce had an average winrate of 48.5% when playing against Lucian with these items in his kit.
To have the greatest likelihood of beating Lucian as Jayce, you should equip the First Strike, Magical Footwear, Biscuit Delivery, Cosmic Insight, Manaflow Band, and Transcendence runes from the Inspiration and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations that we analyzed for Jayce vs Lucian matchups, this sequence of runes yielded the highest win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 48.5% winrate overall.
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