Aphelios vs Lucian
How to Beat Lucian as Aphelios
based on 5,891 Aphelios vs Lucian matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Aphelios vs Lucian Matchup Summary
Best Aphelios vs Lucian Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Lucian as Aphelios
Tips for Playing as Aphelios against Lucian
Each of Aphelios' weapons have different strengths, so try to find the right situation for your current weapons.
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.
Aphelios vs Lucian Counter Stats
How to Counter Lucian with Aphelios in LoL
The stat comparisons provided here feature several important Aphelios versus Lucian counter statistics that may help us figure out the distinctions between this set of champs. Aphelios’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Lucian’s ratio of NaN, indicating that Aphelios may be more central to his team's team fighting capacity than Lucian..
Aphelios normally has a similar longest killing spree as his opponent does. Typically, he receives a similar amount of damage to Lucian. This often reflects differing health capacities; however, it can also hint that the champion with higher HP has less agility and thus is not able to flee from further damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Aphelios and Lucian
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Who is Better, Aphelios or Lucian?
Both LoL champs are great champions. Both have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Aphelios usually wins when trying to fight Lucian, with a 51.7% win rate. Thus, Aphelios makes a good counter to Lucian.
While Aphelios does have a higher winrate than Lucian, when they face off with one another, Aphelios also has a much greater level of difficulty that makes him a more challenging champ to develop with. You should be careful when picking Aphelios into Lucianas his relative depth means that you may not be able to unleash his full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Furthermore, Aphelios also has only a small amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Lucian. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when trying to counter champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion overall in League of Legends, in Aphelios vs Lucian matchups, Aphelios is the better champion with a higher win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during team fights.
Aphelios is a decent counter to Lucian. Make sure you focus your gameplay on keeping up your CS and taking out objectives. If you can do that, you should do very well as Aphelios against Lucian.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Aphelios to counter Lucian during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and suggestions displayed above, you should grow your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Aphelios most often accumulates a similar amount of CS as Lucian. Champs who typically don't acquire much CS often don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. They are capable of scaling properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, often have to have many items to be effective. In either situation, try to exceed the values displayed on this page to do well.
The best items to use in your Aphelios versus Lucian build include Infinity Edge, Lord Dominik's Regards, and Immortal Shieldbow. When Aphelios bought at least these three pieces in his build, he performed significantly better against Lucian than with many other common counter builds. In fact, Aphelios had an average winrate of 51.7% battling Lucian with this build.
To have the best chance of defeating Lucian as Aphelios, you should take the Press the Attack, Overheal, Legend: Bloodline, Cut Down, Absolute Focus, and Gathering Storm runes from the Precision and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the runes that we analyzed for Aphelios vs Lucian LoL games, this sequence of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 51.7% winrate overall.
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