Lucian vs Ryze
How to Beat Ryze as Lucian
based on 2,201 Lucian vs Ryze matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Lucian vs Ryze Matchup Summary
Best Lucian vs Ryze Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Ryze as Lucian
Tips for Playing as Lucian against Ryze
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 Ryze
Ryze is especially dangerous to opponents that are marked with Flux.
Use Realm Warp's windup time to figure out how to deal with what may be coming out of the portal.
Crowd controlling Ryze during Realm Warp's windup will cancel the portal.
Lucian vs Ryze Counter Stats
How to Counter Ryze with Lucian in LoL
The stats provided here underscore several vital Lucian vs. Ryze counter stats that may help us understand the differences and similarities between these two champions. As an example, Lucian’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Ryze’s KDA ratio of NaN, showing that Lucian may be more central to his team's team fighting capability than Ryze..
Lucian normally has a slightly larger longest killing spree than his opponent does. Typically, he takes less damage than Ryze. This commonly reflects different amounts of tankyness; however, it can also indicate that the champ with more HP has less agility and thus is not able to escape additional damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Lucian and Ryze
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Who is Better, Lucian or Ryze?
Both LoL champs are great. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Lucian usually fairs equally well when trying to fight Ryze, with a 50.2% win rate. Therefore, Lucian makes an ok counter to Ryze.
While Lucian does have a higher win rate than Ryze, when they face off with one another, Lucian also has a lower difficulty level that makes him a less difficult champion to pick up and master. You should be careful when picking Lucian into Ryze.
Moreover, Lucian has almost no amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Ryze. This 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 overall in League of Legends, in Lucian vs Ryze matchups, Lucian is the better champion with a similar win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during team fights.
Lucian is a decent counter for Ryze. You will do well by focussing your gameplay on increasing your gold income and taking out objectives. If you can do that, you should do very well as Lucian against Ryze.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Lucian in order to counter Ryze during both the lane 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 stats presented above, you will increase your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Lucian often picks up a similar amount of CS relative to Ryze. Champs who on average don't acquire much CS usualy don't require much CS to be effective, such as sup champs. They are capable of scaling well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically require a lot of items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the values reported on this page to do well.
The most important items to focus on in your Lucian versus Ryze build include Bloodthirster, Kraken Slayer, and Navori Quickblades. When Lucian bought at least these three pieces in his build, he performed significantly better vs Ryze than with most other common counter builds. In fact, Lucian boasted an average win rate of 50.2% when playing against Ryze with this counter build.
To have the best likelihood of crushing Ryze as Lucian, Lucian players should use the Press the Attack, Presence of Mind, Legend: Bloodline, Coup de Grace, Biscuit Delivery, and Magical Footwear runes from the Precision and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the rune sets that we analyzed for Lucian vs Ryze battles, this combination of runes resulted in the best win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 50.2% win rate overall.
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