Once you have chosen an angle for The Culling, you cannot change it. Pick your moment well!
For optimal burst, try to combine Relentless Pursuit into Piercing Light.
Because of Lightslinger, Lucian benefits more from Attack Damage than he does from Attack Speed.
Ardent Blaze actually explodes in a star pattern. Try to line it up so the spokes hit enemy champions.
Amumu's Despair makes purchasing primarily Health items a risky proposition.
Erratic movement, or hiding behind creep waves can make it difficult for Amumu to instigate a fight with Bandage Toss.
Avoid bunching up with other allies when Amumu has his ultimate available.
The stat comparisons shown here emphasize several strategic Lucian vs. Amumu counter statistics that may help you explain the distinctions between the pair. Lucian’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Amumu’s KDA ratio of NaN, highlighting that Lucian may be more central to his team's team fighting capability than Amumu. This observation is in large part a result of the difference in kills.
Lucian typically has a much larger longest kill spree than his matchup does. Typically, he receives less damage than Amumu. This often reflects differing health capacities, yet it can also indicate that the champ with more health has less agility and thus is unable to kite away from additional harm when engaged or poked.
Both League champions are great champions. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Lucian usually loses when playing against Amumu, with a 47.1% win rate. As a result, Lucian makes a bad counter to Amumu.
While Lucian does have a lower win rate compared to Amumu, when facing one another, Lucian also has a much greater difficulty level that makes him a more difficult champion to learn and master. You should expect to face a difficult match when picking Lucian into Amumu.
Moreover, Lucian has almost no amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Amumu. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when trying to counter champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion in League of Legends, in Lucian vs Amumu matchups, Amumu is the better champion with a lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during late stage team fights.
Lucian is a terribly counter for Amumu. Make sure you focus your strategy on keeping up your gold and cs and clearing objectives. If you do that, you should do very well as Lucian against Amumu.
To truly master Lucian in order to counter Amumu during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you listen to the build and stats presented above, you should increase your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Lucian often gets much more CS compared to Amumu. Champions who on average don't earn many minion kills usualy don't need much CS to be effective, such as support champions. They are capable of scaling properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually need a lot of items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the numbers displayed on this page to do well.
The ideal items to prioritize in your Lucian versus Amumu build consist of Kraken Slayer, Essence Reaver, and Navori Quickblades. When Lucian bought at least these three items in his build, he did significantly better versus Amumu than with many other common counter builds. In fact, Lucian boasted an average win rate of 47.1% battling Amumu with this build.
To have the best likelihood of coming out on top against Amumu as Lucian, you should use the Press the Attack, Presence of Mind, Legend: Bloodline, Coup de Grace, Magical Footwear, and Biscuit Delivery runes from the Precision and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations players chose for Lucian vs Amumu counter picks, this order of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 47.1% winrate overall.
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