Vayne vs Lucian
How to Beat Lucian as Vayne
based on 2,574 Vayne vs Lucian matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Vayne vs Lucian Matchup Summary
Best Vayne vs Lucian Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Lucian as Vayne
Tips for Playing as Vayne against Lucian
Don't go in first to a large teamfight. Wait for your teammates to initiate.
Tumble has many uses, but it cannot pass over walls.
Condemn can be used to both pin targets to walls to ensure a kill, or to escape a pursuer.
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.
Vayne vs Lucian Counter Stats
How to Counter Lucian with Vayne in LoL
The stats provided here clarify several valuable Vayne vs. Lucian counter stats that can help us figure out the differences between the pair. As an example, Vayne’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Lucian’s KDA ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Vayne may be more central to her team's team fighting capability than Lucian..
Vayne usually has a similar longest killing spree as her opponent does. Commonly, she takes a similar amount of damage to Lucian. This is usually reflective of different amounts of tankyness, yet it can also hint that the one champion has less agility and thus is not able to escape further harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Vayne and Lucian
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Who is Better, Vayne or Lucian?
Both LoL champs are great champions. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Vayne usually wins when trying to fight Lucian, with a 54.0% win rate. Thus, Vayne makes a great counter to Lucian.
While Vayne does have a much higher win rate compared to Lucian, when facing one another, Vayne also has a greater difficulty level that makes her a more challenging champion to pick up and master. You don't need to be too worried when picking Vayne into Lucianas her relative depth means that you may not be able to reach her full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Furthermore, Vayne also has some amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Lucian. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when facing champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion in League of Legends, in Vayne vs Lucian matchups, Vayne is the better champion with a noticably higher win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during late stage team fights.
Vayne is a great counter to Lucian. Make sure you focus your play on increasing your gold and cs and taking out objectives. If you can do that, you should do very well as Vayne against Lucian.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Vayne to counter Lucian during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to gather a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and stats displayed above, you will increase your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Vayne often picks up a similar amount of CS compared to Lucian. Champs who on average don't acquire much CS often don't have to have much CS to be effective, such as sup champs. They are capable of scaling properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, often need many items to be effective. In either situation, try to exceed the numbers shown here to do well.
The most important items to focus on in your Vayne versus Lucian build include Trinity Force, Statikk Shiv, and Immortal Shieldbow. When Vayne combined at least these three pieces in her build, she did a lot better against Lucian than with most other common builds. In fact, Vayne boasted an average winrate of 54.0% when playing against Lucian with these items in her kit.
To have the highest likelihood of annihilating Lucian as Vayne, you should equip the Lethal Tempo, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Coup de Grace, Taste of Blood, and Treasure Hunter runes from the Precision and Domination rune sets. Of all the rune builds players picked for Vayne vs Lucian fights, this order of runes yielded the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 54.0% winrate overall.
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