Lucian vs Zyra
How to Beat Zyra as Lucian
based on 9,202 Lucian vs Zyra matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Lucian vs Zyra Matchup Summary
Best Lucian vs Zyra Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Zyra as Lucian
Tips for Playing as Lucian against Zyra
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 Zyra
Moving closer to Zyra can be a smart move if she places plants too far away from herself.
Moving the fight to a different area will deprive Zyra of accumulated seeds.
Plants take fixed damage from attacks and effects, similar to wards. They also expire quickly on their own.
Seeds placed by Zyra's W are larger, a different color, and grant a small amount of vision to her team.
Zyra's seeds can be destroyed by stepping on them. If she tries to grow them as you do, dodge back at the last moment.
Lucian vs Zyra Counter Stats
How to Counter Zyra with Lucian in LoL
The stats shown on this page highlight some valuable Lucian vs. Zyra matchup stats that may help us distinguish the differences and similarities between this set of champs. As an example, Lucian’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Zyra’s KDA ratio of NaN, highlighting that Lucian may be more central to his team's team fighting effectiveness than Zyra. This observation is largely a result of the difference in kills.
Lucian often has a much larger longest kill spree than his enemy does. On average, he takes more damage than Zyra. This typically indicates different amounts of tankyness, but it can also illustrate that the one champ has less agility and thus is not able to kite away from further damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Lucian and Zyra
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Who is Better, Lucian or Zyra?
Both League champions are great champions. Both champs have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Lucian usually loses when trying to fight Zyra, with a 45.8% win rate. Thus, Lucian makes a bad counter to Zyra.
While Lucian does have a much lower win rate compared to Zyra, when they face off with one another, Lucian also has a lower level of difficulty that makes him a less difficult character to develop with. You should expect to face a difficult match when picking Lucian into Zyra.
Additionally, Lucian has almost no amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Zyra. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when fighting champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion in League of Legends, in Lucian vs Zyra matchups, Zyra is the better champion with a much lower win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during late stage team fights.
Lucian is a garbage counter for Zyra. You will do well by focussing your actions on increasing your gold and cs and destroying objectives. If you can do that, you should do very well as Lucian against Zyra.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Lucian to counter Zyra during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to gather a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you mind the build and suggestions presented above, you should increase your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Lucian typically accumulates much more CS as Zyra. Champions who typically don't earn many minion kills often don't have to have much CS to be effective, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, often need a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to exceed the values displayed here to do well.
The ideal items to use in your Lucian versus Zyra build consist of Bloodthirster, Rapid Firecannon, and Stormrazor. When Lucian combined at least these three items in his build, he did a lot better countering Zyra than with most other common counter builds. In fact, Lucian had an average win rate of 45.8% when playing against Zyra with this build.
To have the best chance of crushing Zyra 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. Of all the rune sets players used for Lucian vs Zyra counter picks, this sequence of runes yielded the best win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 45.8% win rate overall.
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