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 stat comparisons provided here clarify some strategic Lillia against Lucian counter stats that may help us interpret the distinctions between this set of champs. As an example, Lillia’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Lucian’s KDA ratio of NaN, showing that Lillia may be more central to her team's team fighting capability than Lucian..
Lillia often has a similar longest kill spree as her foe does. Commonly, she receives more damage than Lucian. This typically indicates different amounts of tankyness; however, it can also imply that the one champion has less agility and thus is unable to kite away from further damage when engaged or poked.
Both League of Legends champions are great champions. Both champs have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Lillia usually wins when facing off against Lucian, with a 54.9% win rate. Thus, Lillia makes a great counter for Lucian.
While Lillia does have a much higher win rate compared to Lucian, when facing one another, Lillia also has a greater learning curve that makes her a more complex character to learn. You should be be fine when picking Lillia into Lucianas her relative depth means that you may not be able to unleash her full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Moreover, Lillia has some amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Lucian. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when facing champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion overall in League of Legends, in Lillia vs Lucian matchups, Lillia is the better champ with a noticably higher win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during team fights.
Lillia is a great counter to Lucian. You will do well by focussing your gameplay on maximizing your gold and cs and clearing objectives. If you do that, you should do very well as Lillia against Lucian.
If you would like to truly master Lillia 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 listen to the build and tips shown here, you should increase your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Lillia most often accumulates a lot less CS as Lucian. Champs who typically don't acquire much CS usualy don't need much CS to be effective, such as support champions. They are capable of scaling properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, often need a lot of items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the numbers displayed on this page to do well.
The most important items to have in your Lillia versus Lucian build consist of Riftmaker, Shadowflame, and Liandry's Torment. When Lillia used at least these three items in her build, she did a lot better countering Lucian than with many other common counter builds. In fact, Lillia boasted an average win rate of 54.9% when playing against Lucian with this counter build.
To have the best likelihood of coming out on top against Lucian as Lillia, Lillia players should use the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Tenacity, Coup de Grace, Cosmic Insight, and Magical Footwear runes from the Precision and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations that we analyzed for Lillia vs Lucian battles, this blending of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 54.9% win rate overall.
By default, tips, statistics, and builds on how to beat Lucian as Lillia are displayed for all skill levels combined. If you want to filter the statistics and builds to a specific rank, you should use the selection menu located earlier in the counter matchup guide.