Caitlyn with Lucian
How to Synergize Caitlyn and Lucian
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Caitlyn Lucian Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Caitlyn and Lucian
Tips for Playing as Caitlyn with Lucian
Fire 90 Caliber Net away from the opponent to close the gap or hop over walls.
Avoid using Ace in the Hole in large team melees as it might be blocked by the wrong target.
Make use of her Yordle Snap Traps by placing them pre-emptively to ensure that you'll have one off of cooldown during combat.
Advice to Understand How Lucian Will Play
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!
Caitlyn Lucian Synergy Stats
How to Play with Lucian as Caitlyn in LoL
The Caitlyn Lucian synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of her gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Lucian, compared to her overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how her gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Caitlyn sees a very large drop in her KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Lucian. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Lucian helps Caitlyn perform poorer in competitive League of Legends games. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Caitlyn is paired with Lucian, she gets a little decrease in her total damage dealt. This difference could signal that Lucian does not support by providing protection for her to deal more damage or that his support also helps increase the match's duration. Similarly, when Caitlyn is played alongside Lucian on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when she plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing alongside Lucian.
Moreover, when Caitlyn plays with Lucian on the same team, she usually receives a little less damage than when she fights alone. Getting dealt not as much damage may indicate that Lucian does a decent job of covering Caitlyn during team fights.
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Is Caitlyn better when played alongside Lucian?
There is no top synergy for Caitlyn that will 100% of the time be her top teammate. Yet, Lucian is a very bad companion for Caitlyn. By being on the same side as Caitlyn, he drops their win rate by -5.0% to 44.3%. This signals that there is a very bad strategic relationship between Caitlyn and Lucian that allows them to perform not as well together than without each other.
Lucian has a lower difficulty than Caitlyn. That means Caitlyn players don't need to be very careful when finding Lucian allies to go into battle on the same side as, as they will require a lower level of skill to do well with you.
When playing together, Caitlyn players should expect to observe an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to dish out massive AD. When paired, these champs can tear through the other team with a lot of physcial damage.
In contrast, by aligning Caitlyn and Lucian together, you probably will not be granting your team a lot of magical damage output. Make sure to bring other champs on your team that neutralizes this gap in this pairing's kit.
Regardless of your Lucian ally's skill level, you should focus on increasing your gold income, warding to avoid ambushes, and taking down objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you will do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to truly master Caitlyn to synergize with Lucian during both the lane and mid / late game phases of LoL rounds, you should keep reading to master additional lessons on this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and suggestions presented here, you will increase your win rate significantly.
The ideal items to have in your Caitlyn and Lucian synergy build consist of Lord Dominik's Regards, Youmuu's Ghostblade, and The Collector. When Caitlyn bought at least these three pieces in her build, she performed significantly better as an ally of Lucian than with most other commonly used builds. In fact, Caitlyn boasted an average winrate of 44.3% when playing alongside Lucian with these items in her kit.
To have the best probability of defeating your oponents, Caitlyn players should use the Fleet Footwork, Presence of Mind, Legend: Bloodline, Coup de Grace, Absolute Focus, and Gathering Storm runes from the Precision and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the runes we have analyed for this team composition, this combination of runes resulted in the top win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 44.3% win rate overall.
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