Taric vs Lucian
How to Beat Lucian as Taric
based on 2,283 Taric vs Lucian matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Taric vs Lucian Matchup Summary
Best Taric vs Lucian Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Lucian as Taric
Tips for Playing as Taric against Lucian
The cooldown reducing component of Bravado makes Cooldown Reduction items like Frozen Heart, Iceborn Gauntlet, and Spirit Visage exceptionally powerful on Taric.
Using Starlight's Touch at lower charges makes its healing less Mana efficient, but can greatly increase Taric's sustained damage via Bravado.
Rather than saving Cosmic Radiance for the last moment and risking someone dying during the delay, it can be more beneficial to cast it as soon as you know a teamfight is guaranteed to start.
Advice to Win Against Lucian
Lucian cannot change the aim of The Culling. Take advantage of this by avoiding the angle of the bullets.
Lucian has strong burst, but little sustained damage.
Piercing Light does not give Lucian extra Attack Range. He still needs to find a target in range to line up his shot. Avoid Piercing Light by anticipating the angle Lucian will choose.
Taric vs Lucian Counter Stats
How to Counter Lucian with Taric in LoL
The stats shown here feature several vital Taric vs. Lucian matchup stats that can help us explain the differences between the two. For instance, Taric’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Lucian’s KDA ratio of NaN, indicating that Taric may be more central to his team's team fighting potential than Lucian. This observation is largely fueled by the differences in assists.
Taric normally has a significantly smaller longest kill spree than his enemy does. Typically, he takes more damage than Lucian. This often reflects differing health capacities, but it can also show that the champ with more health has less mobility and thus is not able to escape additional harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Taric and Lucian
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Who is Better, Taric or Lucian?
Both League of Legends champions are great champions. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Taric usually wins when playing against Lucian, with a 53.4% win rate. Therefore, Taric makes a great counter to Lucian.
While Taric does have a higher winrate compared to Lucian, when on opposite teams, Taric also has a lower difficulty level that makes him a less time consuming champ to pick up and master. You don't need to be too worried when picking Taric into Lucian.
Furthermore, Taric has a lot of utility and CC, a similar amount to Lucian. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when facing champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion overall in League of Legends, in Taric vs Lucian matchups, Taric is the better champion with a noticably higher win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during team fights.
Taric is a great counter for Lucian. Focus your play on maximizing your CS and taking out objectives. If you do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Taric against Lucian.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Taric in order to counter Lucian during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to gather a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and stats shown here, you should grow your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Taric usually gets a lot less CS as Lucian. Champions who typically don't earn many minion kills usualy don't have to have much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically need many items to be effective. In either situation, try to exceed the values shown here to do well.
The ideal items to use in your Taric versus Lucian build include Thornmail, Frozen Heart, and Locket of the Iron Solari. When Taric incorporated at least these three items in his build, he performed significantly better against Lucian than with many other typical builds. In fact, Taric had an average win rate of 53.4% battling Lucian with this counter build.
To have the highest probability of vanquishing Lucian as Taric, you should use the Guardian, Font of Life, Bone Plating, Revitalize, Legend: Tenacity, and Presence of Mind runes from the Resolve and Precision rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations we have analyed for Taric vs Lucian counters, this combo of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 53.4% win rate overall.
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