Kai'Sa vs Lucian
How to Beat Lucian as Kai'Sa
based on 10,781 Kai'Sa vs Lucian matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Kai'Sa vs Lucian Matchup Summary
Best Kai'Sa vs Lucian Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Lucian as Kai'Sa
Tips for Playing as Kai'Sa against Lucian
Make sure to buy items that will evolve at least 1 or 2 of your spells.
Work with your teammates to set up your Ultimate and optimize damage with your passive.
Try to catch enemy carries alone to burst them with Icathian Rain.
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.
Kai'Sa vs Lucian Counter Stats
How to Counter Lucian with Kai'Sa in LoL
The stats shown on this page clarify several valuable Kai'Sa versus Lucian matchup statistics that may help you grasp the differences and similarities between the pair. As an example, Kai'Sa’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Lucian’s KDA ratio of NaN, showing that Kai'Sa may be more central to her team's team fighting capability than Lucian..
Kai'Sa often has a similar longest killing spree as her counter does. Typically, she takes a similar amount of damage to Lucian. This often reflects differing health capacities, but it can also indicate that the one champion has less mobility and thus is not able to escape additional harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Kai'Sa and Lucian
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Who is Better, Kai'Sa or Lucian?
Both League of Legends champions are great champions. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Kai'Sa usually loses when facing off against Lucian, with a 47.6% win rate. Thus, Kai'Sa makes a bad counter for Lucian.
While Kai'Sa does have a lower winrate compared to Lucian, when they face off with one another, Kai'Sa also has a greater level of difficulty that makes her a more difficult character to learn. You may get destroyed when picking Kai'Sa into Lucian.
Furthermore, Kai'Sa also has almost no amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Lucian. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when fighting champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Kai'Sa vs Lucian matchups, Lucian is the better champion with a lower win rate, similar champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during late stage team fights.
Kai'Sa is a terribly counter to Lucian. Make sure you focus your strategy on maximizing your CS and taking out objectives. If you can do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Kai'Sa against Lucian.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Kai'Sa in order to counter Lucian during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to learn a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you listen to the build and tips presented here, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Kai'Sa typically accumulates a similar amount of CS relative to Lucian. Champs who on average don't take much CS often don't require much CS to be effective, such as sup champs. They are able to scale properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically need many items to be effective. In either situation, try to surpass the values reported here to do well.
The best items to have in your Kai'Sa versus Lucian build consist of Muramana, Rabadon's Deathcap, and Nashor's Tooth. When Kai'Sa included at least these three pieces in her build, she performed a lot better vs Lucian than with most other typical item sets. In fact, Kai'Sa boasted an average win rate of 47.6% when playing against Lucian with this counter build.
To have the greatest likelihood of vanquishing Lucian as Kai'Sa, Kai'Sa players should use the Hail of Blades, Taste of Blood, Eyeball Collection, Treasure Hunter, Biscuit Delivery, and Magical Footwear runes from the Domination and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the runes players chose for Kai'Sa vs Lucian face-offs, this combo of runes yielded the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 47.6% win rate overall.
By default, tips, statistics, and builds on how to beat Lucian as Kai'Sa are shown for all skill levels, merged. If you want to scope the stats and builds to a specific skill level, you should use the selection menu located earlier in the counter matchup guide.