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.
The stats shown on this page highlight several influential Bel'Veth against Lucian counter statistics that can help us figure out the differences and similarities between the two. For instance, Bel'Veth’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Lucian’s ratio of NaN, highlighting that Bel'Veth may be more central to their team's team fighting potential than Lucian..
Bel'Veth often has a similar longest killing spree as their foe does. Typically, they takes more damage than Lucian. This typically indicates different amounts of tankyness, but it can also imply that the champion with increased health has less mobility and thus is not able to flee from further harm when engaged or poked.
Both League champs are great. Both champs have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Bel'Veth usually wins when trying to fight Lucian, with a 52.1% win rate. As a result, Bel'Veth makes a good counter for Lucian.
While Bel'Veth does have a higher win rate compared to Lucian, when on opposite teams, Bel'Veth also has a much greater difficulty level that makes them a more difficult champ to develop with. You don't need to be too worried when picking Bel'Veth into Lucianas their relative depth means that you may not be able to unleash their full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Furthermore, Bel'Veth also has some amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Lucian. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when fighting champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion overall in League of Legends, in Bel'Veth vs Lucian matchups, Bel'Veth is the better champion with a noticably higher win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during teamfights.
Bel'Veth is an above average counter for Lucian. You will do well by focussing your strategy on keeping up your gold income and clearing objectives. If you are able to do that, you should do very well as Bel'Veth against Lucian.
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Bel'Veth to counter Lucian during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to learn a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you listen to the build and stats shown above, you should grow your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Bel'Veth often racks up a lot less CS relative to Lucian. Champs who typically don't take many minion kills often don't have to have much CS to be effective, such as supports. These kinds of champions are able to scale well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically require several high cost items to be effective. In either situation, try to exceed the numbers reported here to do well.
The most important items to have in your Bel'Veth versus Lucian build include Wit's End, Blade of The Ruined King, and Terminus. When Bel'Veth incorporated at least these three pieces in their build, they performed much better when fighting Lucian than with most other common item sets. In fact, Bel'Veth had an average winrate of 52.1% when countering Lucian with this counter build.
To have the best chance of beating Lucian as Bel'Veth, Bel'Veth players should use the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Coup de Grace, Cosmic Insight, and Magical Footwear runes from the Precision and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the rune sets that we analyzed for Bel'Veth vs Lucian counter picks, this order of runes yielded the highest win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 52.1% win rate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to beat Lucian as Bel'Veth are shown for all skill levels combined. If you want to scope the stats and builds to a specific division, you can use the selection menu earlier in the counter matchup guide.