Leona vs Lucian
How to Beat Lucian as Leona
based on 8,167 Leona vs Lucian matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Leona vs Lucian Matchup Summary
Best Leona vs Lucian Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Lucian as Leona
Tips for Playing as Leona against Lucian
Shield of Daybreak and Zenith Blade form a powerful offensive combo.
Lead the charge and mark your foes with Sunlight before your allies deal damage.
You can absorb a huge amount of damage using Eclipse, but you must stay near enemies to gain the bonus duration.
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.
Leona vs Lucian Counter Stats
How to Counter Lucian with Leona in LoL
The stat comparisons shown on this page underscore several strategic Leona against Lucian matchup statistics that can help you appreciate the differences between the two. As an example, Leona’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Lucian’s ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Leona may be more central to her team's team fighting capability than Lucian. This observation is largely a result of the differences in assists.
Leona normally has a significantly smaller longest kill spree than her counter does. On average, she takes a similar amount of damage to Lucian. This often reflects different amounts of tankyness; however, it can also indicate that the one champion has less agility and thus is not able to flee from additional damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Leona and Lucian
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Who is Better, Leona or Lucian?
Both LoL champions are great. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Leona usually wins when playing against Lucian, with a 53.3% win rate. Thus, Leona makes a great counter for Lucian.
While Leona does have a higher winrate than Lucian, when on opposite teams, Leona also has a lower learning curve that makes her a less complex champion to pick up and master. You don't need to be too worried when picking Leona into Lucian.
Moreover, Leona has a great deal of utility and CC, a similar amount to Lucian. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when fighting champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion in League of Legends, in Leona vs Lucian matchups, Leona is the better champ with a noticably higher win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during late stage team fights.
Leona is a great counter for Lucian. You will do well by focussing your strategy on increasing your gold income and destroying objectives. If you do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Leona against Lucian.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Leona in order to counter Lucian during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to learn a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you listen to the build and stats displayed above, you should grow your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Leona typically accumulates a lot less CS as Lucian. Champions who on average don't take many minion kills typically don't have to have much CS to be valuable teammates, such as supports. These kinds of champions are able to scale well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically require several high cost items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the numbers displayed here to do well.
The most important items to focus on in your Leona versus Lucian build include Zeke's Convergence, Knight's Vow, and Celestial Opposition. When Leona incorporated at least these three items in her build, she did significantly better countering Lucian than with most other commonly used item sets. In fact, Leona had an average winrate of 53.3% when countering Lucian with these items in her kit.
To have the highest likelihood of defeating Lucian as Leona, Leona players should take the Aftershock, Font of Life, Conditioning, Overgrowth, Hextech Flashtraption, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Resolve and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the rune sets we have analyed for Leona vs Lucian counters, this set of runes yielded the best win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 53.3% win rate overall.
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