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!
Rammus often stacks high Armor, leaving him especially vulnerable to caster damage while not in Defensive Ball Curl.
Pay particular attention to when his Defensive Ball Curl is off. Rammus has much lower stats than a normal tank when he's out of the stance.
The stats provided here feature several critical Lucian against Rammus counter statistics that may help us distinguish the differences between the pair. For instance, Lucian’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Rammus’s KDA ratio of NaN, highlighting that Lucian may be more central to his team's team fighting capacity than Rammus..
Lucian typically has a slightly larger longest kill spree than his enemy does. Commonly, he takes less damage than Rammus. This commonly reflects differing health capacities, but it can also indicate that the one champion has less mobility and thus is not able to escape additional damage when poked or engaged.
Both LoL champs are great champions. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Lucian usually loses when taking on Rammus, with a 47.8% win rate. Therefore, Lucian makes a bad counter for Rammus.
While Lucian does have a lower winrate than Rammus, when on opposite teams, Lucian also has a greater difficulty level that makes him a more time consuming character to pick up and master. You should be very concerned when picking Lucian into Rammus.
Moreover, Lucian also has only a small amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Rammus. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when facing champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion in League of Legends, in Lucian vs Rammus matchups, Rammus is the better champion with a lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during late stage team fights.
Lucian is a bad counter to Rammus. Make sure you focus your strategy on maximizing your gold and cs and destroying objectives. If you can do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Lucian against Rammus.
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Lucian to counter Rammus during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to gather a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and suggestions presented above, you should grow your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Lucian often picks up much more CS as Rammus. Champs who on average don't acquire much CS typically don't need much CS to be valuable teammates, such as supports. They are capable of scaling properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually require a lot of items to be effective. In either situation, try to surpass the values shown on this page to do well.
The best items to have in your Lucian versus Rammus build include Stormrazor, Navori Quickblades, and Voltaic Cyclosword. When Lucian combined at least these three items in his build, he performed significantly better when facing Rammus than with many other commonly used counter builds. In fact, Lucian boasted an average win rate of 47.8% when playing against Rammus with this build.
To have the greatest likelihood of vanquishing Rammus as Lucian, Lucian players should take the Press the Attack, Presence of Mind, Legend: Bloodline, Coup de Grace, Biscuit Delivery, and Magical Footwear runes from the Precision and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations players picked for Lucian vs Rammus battles, this combo of runes yielded the highest win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 47.8% winrate overall.
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