Lucian vs Bard
How to Beat Bard as Lucian
based on 7,390 Lucian vs Bard matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Lucian vs Bard Matchup Summary
Best Lucian vs Bard Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Bard as Lucian
Tips for Playing as Lucian against Bard
For optimal burst, try to combine Relentless Pursuit into Piercing Light.
Ardent Blaze actually explodes in a star pattern. Try to line it up so the spokes hit enemy champions.
Because of Lightslinger, Lucian benefits more from Attack Damage than he does from Attack Speed.
Once you have chosen an angle for The Culling, you cannot change it. Pick your moment well!
Advice to Win Against Bard
You can crush Bard's healing shrines just by walking over them. Don't let his allies take them without a fight.
Bard's ultimate, Tempered Fate, affects allies, enemies, monsters, and turrets alike. Sometimes it can be to your advantage to jump into it!
Bard's opponents can also travel through his Magical Journey doorways. You can follow him, if you think it's safe.
Lucian vs Bard Counter Stats
How to Counter Bard with Lucian in LoL
The stats shown here underscore several influential Lucian against Bard counter stats that may help you interpret the differences between the pair. For instance, Lucian’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Bard’s ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Lucian may be more central to his team's team fighting effectiveness than Bard. This observation is in large part fueled by the difference in kills.
Lucian normally has a much larger longest killing spree than his opponent does. Commonly, he takes a similar amount of damage to Bard. This often reflects different amounts of tankyness, but it can also hint that the one champ has less mobility and thus is not able to escape additional harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Lucian and Bard
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Who is Better, Lucian or Bard?
Both League champs are great champions. Both champs have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Lucian usually loses when taking on Bard, with a 46.9% win rate. As a result, Lucian makes a bad counter for Bard.
While Lucian does have a lower winrate than Bard, when on opposite teams, Lucian also has a lower difficulty level that makes him a less time consuming champ to develop with. You may get destroyed when picking Lucian into Bard.
Furthermore, Lucian has only a small amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Bard. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when trying to counter champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion overall in League of Legends, in Lucian vs Bard matchups, Bard is the better champion with a much lower win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during late stage team fights.
Lucian is a bad counter for Bard. Make sure you focus your play on keeping up your gold income and clearing objectives. If you do that, you should hold your own as Lucian against Bard.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Lucian to counter Bard during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to pick up a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you listen to the build and tips displayed here, you should grow your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Lucian on average picks up much more CS as Bard. Champs who typically don't acquire much CS usualy don't have to have much CS to be effective, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are able to scale properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically need a lot of items to be effective. In either situation, try to exceed the values shown here to do well.
The top items to have in your Lucian versus Bard build include Infinity Edge, Rapid Firecannon, and Stormrazor. When Lucian bought at least these three pieces in his build, he performed a lot better vs Bard than with many other typical item sets. In fact, Lucian boasted an average winrate of 46.9% when playing against Bard with this build.
To have the highest chance of beating Bard as Lucian, you should take the First Strike, Magical Footwear, Biscuit Delivery, Cosmic Insight, Manaflow Band, and Scorch runes from the Inspiration and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the rune sets players used for Lucian vs Bard battles, this mix of runes yielded the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 46.9% win rate overall.
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