Lucian vs Garen
How to Beat Garen as Lucian
based on 7,473 Lucian vs Garen matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Lucian vs Garen Matchup Summary
Best Lucian vs Garen Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Garen as Lucian
Tips for Playing as Lucian against Garen
For optimal burst, try to combine Relentless Pursuit into Piercing Light.
Ardent Blaze actually explodes in a star pattern. Try to line it up so the spokes hit enemy champions.
Because of Lightslinger, Lucian benefits more from Attack Damage than he does from Attack Speed.
Once you have chosen an angle for The Culling, you cannot change it. Pick your moment well!
Advice to Win Against Garen
Be careful about attacking Garen in brush. It often will lead to taking full damage from Judgment.
Stack armor items to lower the large amount of physical damage that Garen deals out.
Judgment deals maximum damage when only hitting a single target. If getting out of its radius isn't possible, move through allied minions to reduce damage taken.
Try to run away from Garen as your health gets lower, as he can execute you quickly with Demacian Justice.
Lucian vs Garen Counter Stats
How to Counter Garen with Lucian in LoL
The stat comparisons provided here clarify some influential Lucian against Garen counter statistics that can help us grasp the differences between the pair. For instance, Lucian’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Garen’s ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Lucian may be more central to his team's team fighting capacity than Garen..
Lucian often has a slightly larger longest kill spree than his counter does. On average, he takes less damage than Garen. This is usually reflective of different amounts of tankyness; however, it can also indicate that the champ with higher health has less agility and thus is not able to kite away from further damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Lucian and Garen
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Who is Better, Lucian or Garen?
Both League of Legends champs are great champions. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Lucian usually fairs equally well when playing against Garen, with a 50.9% win rate. As a result, Lucian makes an ok counter for Garen.
While Lucian does have a higher winrate compared to Garen, when they face off with one another, Lucian also has a greater difficulty level that makes him a more time consuming champion to develop with. You should be careful when picking Lucian into Garen.
Furthermore, Lucian also has almost no amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Garen. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, 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 Garen matchups, Lucian is the better champ with a similar win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during teamfights.
Lucian is a decent counter for Garen. Focus your tactics on increasing your gold and cs and clearing objectives. If you are able to do that, you should hold your own as Lucian against Garen.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Lucian in order to counter Garen during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you listen to the build and stats presented here, you should grow your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Lucian often gets a similar amount of CS relative to Garen. Champions who typically don't take many minion kills typically 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, champions with a lot 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 shown here to do well.
The top items to prioritize in your Lucian versus Garen build include Bloodthirster, Rapid Firecannon, and Kraken Slayer. When Lucian used at least these three items in his build, he performed significantly better vs Garen than with many other typical builds. In fact, Lucian had an average winrate of 50.9% when countering Garen with these items in his kit.
To have the highest probability of coming out on top against Garen 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 sets that we analyzed for Lucian vs Garen matchups, this mixture of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 50.9% winrate overall.
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