Kassadin vs Lucian
How to Beat Lucian as Kassadin
based on 3,411 Kassadin vs Lucian matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Kassadin vs Lucian Matchup Summary
Best Kassadin vs Lucian Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Lucian as Kassadin
Tips for Playing as Kassadin against Lucian
Kassadin's ultimate has many uses and is on a shorter cooldown than most, use it often.
Kassadin has multiple item paths; he can go caster via Mana and Ability Power or anti-caster with Cooldown Reduction and Magic Resist.
Try to get the Ancient Golem buff to counteract Riftwalk's increasing Mana cost.
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.
Kassadin vs Lucian Counter Stats
How to Counter Lucian with Kassadin in LoL
The stat comparisons shown on this page emphasize several important Kassadin vs. Lucian counter stats that may help you grasp the differences between the two. For instance, Kassadin’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Lucian’s ratio of NaN, highlighting that Kassadin may be more central to his team's team fighting capacity than Lucian..
Kassadin typically has a similar longest killing spree as his enemy does. On average, he takes more damage than Lucian. This is usually reflective of different amounts of tankyness; however, it can also illustrate that the one champ has less mobility and thus is not able to flee from further damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Kassadin and Lucian
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Who is Better, Kassadin or Lucian?
Both League of Legends champions are great champions. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Kassadin usually wins when playing against Lucian, with a 52.0% win rate. Thus, Kassadin makes a good counter to Lucian.
While Kassadin does have a higher winrate than Lucian, when facing one another, Kassadin also has a greater learning curve that makes him a more difficult champion to pick up and master. You should be careful when picking Kassadin into Lucianas his relative depth means you may not be able to reach his full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Additionally, Kassadin has some 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 lot of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion overall in League of Legends, in Kassadin vs Lucian matchups, Kassadin is the better champ with a higher win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during teamfights.
Kassadin is a decent counter to Lucian. You will do well by focussing your gameplay on keeping up your CS and clearing objectives. If you do that, you should hold your own as Kassadin against Lucian.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Kassadin 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 tricks and insights into this matchup. If you mind the build and stats shown above, you should increase your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Kassadin typically picks up a similar amount of CS relative to Lucian. Champions who on average don't acquire many minion kills typically don't require much CS to be effective, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are able to scale well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, often need a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the numbers displayed on this page to do well.
The best items to have in your Kassadin versus Lucian build include Seraph's Embrace, Luden's Companion, and Rod of Ages. When Kassadin used at least these three pieces in his build, he performed much better when fighting Lucian than with most other commonly used builds. In fact, Kassadin had an average winrate of 52.0% battling Lucian with these items in his kit.
To have the best chance of defeating Lucian as Kassadin, you should use the First Strike, Magical Footwear, Future's Market, Cosmic Insight, Sudden Impact, and Ultimate Hunter runes from the Inspiration and Domination rune sets. Out of all the rune builds we have analyed for Kassadin vs Lucian fights, this blending of runes yielded the highest win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 52.0% win rate overall.
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