Lucian vs Leona
How to Beat Leona as Lucian
based on 8,167 Lucian vs Leona matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Lucian vs Leona Matchup Summary
Best Lucian vs Leona Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Leona as Lucian
Tips for Playing as Lucian against Leona
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 Leona
When Leona activates Eclipse, you have three seconds to get away from her before she deals damage.
Only foes in the center of Solar Flare get stunned, so you can often avoid this if you're quick.
Lucian vs Leona Counter Stats
How to Counter Leona with Lucian in LoL
The stat comparisons provided here emphasize several strategic Lucian versus Leona counter statistics that may help you figure out the distinctions between the pair. As an example, Lucian’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Leona’s ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Lucian may be more central to his team's team fighting potential than Leona. This observation is largely fueled by the difference in kills.
Lucian normally has a much larger longest killing spree than his enemy does. On average, he receives a similar amount of damage to Leona. This commonly reflects differing health capacities; however, it can also show that the champ with higher health has less agility and thus is not able to kite away from additional harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Lucian and Leona
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Who is Better, Lucian or Leona?
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 playing against Leona, with a 46.7% win rate. Thus, Lucian makes a poor counter for Leona.
While Lucian does have a lower winrate than Leona, when they face off with one another, Lucian also has a greater level of difficulty that makes him a more time consuming champ to pick up and master. You should be very concerned when picking Lucian into Leona.
Furthermore, Lucian has almost no amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Leona. 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 Leona matchups, Leona is the better champion with a much lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during late stage team fights.
Lucian is a garbage counter to Leona. You will do well by focussing your play on maximizing your CS and destroying objectives. If you are able to do that, you should do very well as Lucian against Leona.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Lucian to counter Leona during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to learn a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and tips shown here, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Lucian typically racks up much more CS relative to Leona. Champs who typically don't earn many minion kills usualy don't have to have much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. They are capable of scaling well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually need several high cost items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the numbers shown here to do well.
The ideal items to have in your Lucian versus Leona build include Lord Dominik's Regards, Rapid Firecannon, and Essence Reaver. When Lucian incorporated at least these three pieces in his build, he did a lot better against Leona than with many other commonly used item sets. In fact, Lucian had an average winrate of 46.7% when playing against Leona with this build.
To have the greatest likelihood of vanquishing Leona 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 builds that we analyzed for Lucian vs Leona face-offs, this combination of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 46.7% winrate overall.
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