Ahri vs Lucian
How to Beat Lucian as Ahri
based on 6,478 Ahri vs Lucian matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Ahri vs Lucian Matchup Summary
Best Ahri vs Lucian Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Lucian as Ahri
Tips for Playing as Ahri against Lucian
Initiate team fights using Charm, and chase down stragglers with Spirit Rush.
Spirit Rush enables Ahri's abilities, it opens up paths for Charm, helps double hitting with Orb of Deception, and closes to make use of Fox-Fire.
Use Charm to set up your combos, it will make landing Orb of Deception and Fox-Fire dramatically easier.
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.
Ahri vs Lucian Counter Stats
How to Counter Lucian with Ahri in LoL
The stat comparisons shown on this page emphasize some strategic Ahri against Lucian counter stats that may help you figure out the differences between the two. For instance, Ahri’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Lucian’s KDA ratio of NaN, showing that Ahri may be more central to her team's team fighting capacity than Lucian..
Ahri usually has a slightly smaller longest killing spree than her counter does. Typically, she receives a similar amount of damage to Lucian. This commonly reflects different amounts of tankyness; however, it can also indicate that the champ with more health has less mobility and thus is not able to flee from additional harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Ahri and Lucian
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Who is Better, Ahri or Lucian?
Both League champions are great. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Ahri usually fairs equally well when trying to fight Lucian, with a 49.9% win rate. Thus, Ahri makes an ok counter for Lucian.
While Ahri does have a lower win rate than Lucian, when on opposite teams, Ahri also has a lower difficulty level that makes her a less complex champ to learn and master. You still need to be cautious when picking Ahri into Lucian.
Furthermore, Ahri also has a good amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Lucian. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when trying to counter champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion in League of Legends, in Ahri vs Lucian matchups, Lucian is the better champion with a similar win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during late stage team fights.
Ahri is a somewhat poor counter to Lucian. Focus your strategy on increasing your gold income and clearing objectives. If you are able to do that, you should hold your own as Ahri against Lucian.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Ahri to counter Lucian during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to pick up a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and suggestions shown above, you will grow your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Ahri most often gets a similar amount of CS relative to Lucian. Champions who typically don't take much CS often don't have to have much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are able to scale well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually require many items to be effective. In either situation, try to surpass the numbers reported here to do well.
The ideal items to prioritize in your Ahri versus Lucian build consist of Cryptbloom, Stormsurge, and Luden's Companion. When Ahri used at least these three items in her build, she did much better when fighting Lucian than with most other common builds. In fact, Ahri had an average winrate of 49.9% when playing against Lucian with this counter build.
To have the greatest probability of defeating Lucian as Ahri, you should use the Electrocute, Taste of Blood, Eyeball Collection, Ultimate Hunter, Biscuit Delivery, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Domination and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the runes that we analyzed for Ahri vs Lucian LoL games, this combination of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 49.9% win rate overall.
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