Lucian vs Taliyah
How to Beat Taliyah as Lucian
based on 2,803 Lucian vs Taliyah matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Lucian vs Taliyah Matchup Summary
Best Lucian vs Taliyah Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Taliyah as Lucian
Tips for Playing as Lucian against Taliyah
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 Taliyah
When Taliyah casts Unraveled Earth in the lane, be on the lookout for Seismic Shove. If she throws you into her minefield, the throws and stones will break your bones.
Taliyah's Threaded Volley is locked into a direction. If she's throwing rocks at you, dodge to the side!
Lucian vs Taliyah Counter Stats
How to Counter Taliyah with Lucian in LoL
The stats provided here show some critical Lucian versus Taliyah matchup stats that may help you distinguish the distinctions between the two. As an example, Lucian’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Taliyah’s ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Lucian may be more central to his team's team fighting effectiveness than Taliyah..
Lucian typically has a slightly larger longest kill spree than his enemy does. Typically, he takes a similar amount of damage to Taliyah. This often reflects differing health capacities, but it can also show that the champion with increased health has less agility and thus is unable to flee from additional damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Lucian and Taliyah
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Who is Better, Lucian or Taliyah?
Both LoL champs are great. Both champs have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Lucian usually fairs equally well when playing against Taliyah, with a 49.6% win rate. Therefore, Lucian makes an ok counter to Taliyah.
While Lucian does have a lower win rate than Taliyah, when on opposite teams, Lucian also has a greater difficulty level that makes him a more complex champion to pick up and master. You should be careful when picking Lucian into Taliyah.
Additionally, Lucian has only a small amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Taliyah. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when fighting champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion overall in League of Legends, in Lucian vs Taliyah matchups, Taliyah is the better champion with a similar 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 somewhat poor counter to Taliyah. Focus your strategy on maximizing your gold income and clearing objectives. If you do that, you should hold your own as Lucian against Taliyah.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Lucian to counter Taliyah during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to gather a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and suggestions shown here, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Lucian on average racks up more CS compared to Taliyah. Champions who typically don't get much CS often don't need much CS to be valuable teammates, such as supports. These kinds of champions are able to scale properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, often need a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to surpass the values reported on this page to do well.
The most important items to use in your Lucian versus Taliyah build include Bloodthirster, Rapid Firecannon, and Kraken Slayer. When Lucian included at least these three items in his build, he did significantly better vs Taliyah than with most other commonly used item sets. In fact, Lucian boasted an average winrate of 49.6% when playing against Taliyah with this build.
To have the best likelihood of vanquishing Taliyah as Lucian, you should take 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 Taliyah face-offs, this composite of runes yielded the best win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 49.6% win rate overall.
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