Brand vs Lucian
How to Beat Lucian as Brand
based on 13,107 Brand vs Lucian matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Brand vs Lucian Matchup Summary
Best Brand vs Lucian Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Lucian as Brand
Tips for Playing as Brand against Lucian
You can use Brand's abilities in a variety of combinations to maximize his damage in different situations.
You can deter enemies from standing near their minions by setting them ablaze, due to Conflagration.
Pyroclasm bounces randomly between enemies, so try to cast it on a small group of enemies if you want to hit the same target multiple times.
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.
Brand vs Lucian Counter Stats
How to Counter Lucian with Brand in LoL
The stats provided here feature some significant Brand against Lucian counter statistics that can help you explain the distinctions between this pair of champs. For instance, Brand’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Lucian’s ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Brand may be more central to his team's team fighting capability than Lucian..
Brand normally has a slightly smaller longest killing spree than his enemy does. On average, he receives more damage than Lucian. This is usually reflective of differing health capacities; however, it can also show that the champion with increased health has less agility and thus is unable to kite away from additional damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Brand and Lucian
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Who is Better, Brand or Lucian?
Both League of Legends champs are great. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Brand usually wins when trying to fight Lucian, with a 52.7% win rate. Therefore, Brand makes a good counter to Lucian.
While Brand does have a higher win rate than Lucian, when facing one another, Brand also has a lower level of difficulty that makes him a less time consuming champion to pick up and master. You don't need to be too worried when picking Brand into Lucian.
Moreover, Brand has some amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Lucian. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when trying to counter champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion in League of Legends, in Brand vs Lucian matchups, Brand is the better champion with a noticably higher win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during late stage team fights.
Brand is an above average counter to Lucian. You will do well by focussing your actions on increasing your gold income and destroying objectives. If you do that, you should hold your own as Brand against Lucian.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Brand 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 lessons on this matchup. If you mind the build and suggestions presented above, you should increase your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Brand on average gets less CS compared to Lucian. Champions who typically don't get much CS often don't have to have much CS to be valuable teammates, such as sup champs. They are able to scale properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, often need several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the numbers shown on this page to do well.
The ideal items to use in your Brand versus Lucian build consist of Rylai's Crystal Scepter, Cryptbloom, and Zhonya's Hourglass. When Brand included at least these three items in his build, he performed significantly better against Lucian than with many other commonly used counter builds. In fact, Brand had an average winrate of 52.7% when countering Lucian with this build.
To have the highest probability of vanquishing Lucian as Brand, you should take the Dark Harvest, Cheap Shot, Eyeball Collection, Treasure Hunter, Magical Footwear, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Domination and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations we have analyed for Brand vs Lucian counters, this mixture of runes yielded the best win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 52.7% win rate overall.
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