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.
Galio moves slower when he is charging Shield of Durand.
Hero's Entrance can be interrupted before Galio jumps into the air.
Galio cannot traverse walls with Justice Punch.
The stats shown on this page clarify some significant Lucian vs. Galio counter stats that may help you realize the distinctions between the pair. As an example, Lucian’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Galio’s ratio of NaN, highlighting that Lucian may be more central to his team's team fighting potential than Galio. This observation is in large part caused by the difference in kills.
Lucian normally has a slightly larger longest kill spree than his enemy does. Typically, he takes less damage than Galio. This commonly reflects different amounts of tankyness; however, it can also hint that the champion with higher HP has less agility and thus is unable to escape additional damage when engaged or poked.
Both League of Legends champions are great champions. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Lucian usually loses when trying to fight Galio, with a 47.1% win rate. Thus, Lucian makes a bad counter to Galio.
While Lucian does have a lower win rate compared to Galio, when on opposite teams, Lucian also has a greater difficulty level that makes him a more challenging champion to learn and master. You may get destroyed when picking Lucian into Galio.
Additionally, Lucian has only a small amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Galio. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when fighting champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Lucian vs Galio matchups, Galio is the better champ with a lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during late stage team fights.
Lucian is a garbage counter for Galio. Focus your play on keeping up your gold and cs and clearing objectives. If you do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Lucian against Galio.
To learn all of the intricacies of Lucian to counter Galio during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to learn a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you mind the build and tips displayed above, you will increase your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Lucian on average picks up a similar amount of CS as Galio. Champs who typically don't acquire much CS typically don't require much CS to be effective, such as supports. They are capable of scaling well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts 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 shown on this page to do well.
The ideal items to use in your Lucian versus Galio build include Galeforce, Navori Quickblades, and The Collector. When Lucian bought at least these three items in his build, he did a lot better when fighting Galio than with most other commonly used item sets. In fact, Lucian had an average winrate of 47.1% battling Galio with these items in his kit.
To have the best probability of coming out on top against Galio as Lucian, you should equip 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 builds players chose for Lucian vs Galio counterpicks, this mixture of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 47.1% win rate overall.
By default, tips, statistics, and builds on how to beat Galio as Lucian are shown for all ranked divisions combined. If you would like to scope the statistics and builds to a specific division, you can use the selection menu located earlier on the page.