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 stats provided here show several influential Nilah vs. Lucian matchup statistics that may help us interpret the differences between these two champions. For instance, Nilah’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Lucian’s ratio of NaN, highlighting that Nilah may be more central to their team's team fighting potential than Lucian..
Nilah usually has a similar longest killing spree as their matchup does. Typically, they receives more damage than Lucian. This typically indicates differing health capacities, yet it can also illustrate that the one champ has less mobility and thus is not able to escape further damage when engaged or poked.
Both League champs are great. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Nilah usually wins when facing off against Lucian, with a 52.7% win rate. As a result, Nilah makes a good counter for Lucian.
While Nilah does have a higher winrate than Lucian, when on opposite teams, Nilah also has a much greater level of difficulty that makes them a more complex champ to learn and master. You should be be fine when picking Nilah into Lucianas their relative depth means that you may not be able to unleash their full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Additionally, Nilah has some amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Lucian. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when fighting champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion overall in League of Legends, in Nilah vs Lucian matchups, Nilah is the better champion with a noticably higher win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during team fights.
Nilah is a good counter for Lucian. Focus your strategy on increasing your gold income and clearing objectives. If you do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Nilah against Lucian.
To truly master Nilah to counter Lucian during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to learn a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and suggestions presented here, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Nilah typically gets a similar amount of CS as Lucian. Champs who typically don't earn many minion kills usualy don't have to have much CS to be effective, such as sup champs. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, often have to have a lot of items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the numbers reported here to do well.
The ideal items to have in your Nilah versus Lucian build include Lord Dominik's Regards, Bloodthirster, and Navori Quickblades. When Nilah used at least these three items in their build, they did a lot better vs. Lucian than with many other common builds. In fact, Nilah had an average win rate of 52.7% when countering Lucian with this counter build.
To have the greatest probability of coming out on top against Lucian as Nilah, Nilah players should take the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Bloodline, Last Stand, Sudden Impact, and Treasure Hunter runes from the Precision and Domination rune sets. Of all the rune sets that we analyzed for Nilah vs Lucian clashes, this sequence of runes resulted in the best win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 52.7% winrate overall.
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