Nunu & Willump vs Lucian
How to Beat Lucian as Nunu & Willump
based on 5,272 Nunu & Willump vs Lucian matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Nunu & Willump vs Lucian Matchup Summary
Best Nunu & Willump vs Lucian Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Lucian as Nunu & Willump
Tips for Playing as Nunu & Willump against Lucian
Consume allows Nunu to stay in a lane against ranged opponents.
You can choose to interrupt Absolute Zero early for partial damage if an opponent is about to run out of range.
It's often beneficial to delay the casting of Absolute Zero until the initial round of disables are used. Try to hang back before rushing into a team fight.
Advice to Win Against Lucian
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.
Nunu & Willump vs Lucian Counter Stats
How to Counter Lucian with Nunu & Willump in LoL
The stat comparisons shown on this page emphasize some significant Nunu & Willump against Lucian counter statistics that can help you explain the differences between these two champs. For instance, Nunu & Willump’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Lucian’s KDA ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Nunu & Willump may be more central to his team's team fighting effectiveness than Lucian. This observation is largely caused by the differences in assists.
Nunu & Willump typically has a slightly smaller longest killing spree than his counter does. Commonly, he receives more damage than Lucian. This commonly reflects differing health capacities, yet it can also illustrate that the champ with higher HP has less mobility and thus is not able to escape additional harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Nunu & Willump and Lucian
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Who is Better, Nunu & Willump or Lucian?
Both League champions are great champions. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Nunu & Willump usually fairs equally well when facing off against Lucian, with a 49.2% win rate. As a result, Nunu & Willump makes an ok counter for Lucian.
While Nunu & Willump does have a lower winrate than Lucian, when on opposite teams, Nunu & Willump also has a lower level of difficulty that makes him a less time consuming character to pick up and master. You still need to be cautious when picking Nunu & Willump into Lucian.
Furthermore, Nunu & Willump also has some amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Lucian. This often 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 in League of Legends, in Nunu & Willump vs Lucian matchups, Lucian is the better champ with a similar win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during teamfights.
Nunu & Willump is a somewhat poor counter to Lucian. Make sure you focus your gameplay on increasing your CS and clearing objectives. If you do that, you should do very well as Nunu & Willump against Lucian.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Nunu & Willump to counter Lucian during both the lane 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 shown above, you will grow your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Nunu & Willump most often gets a lot less CS compared to Lucian. Champions who typically don't acquire much CS usualy don't have to have much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are able to scale properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually require a lot of items to be effective. In either situation, try to surpass the numbers reported here to do well.
The most important items to have in your Nunu & Willump versus Lucian build consist of Kaenic Rookern, Thornmail, and Liandry's Torment. When Nunu & Willump included at least these three items in his build, he did a lot better vs. Lucian than with most other typical counter builds. In fact, Nunu & Willump boasted an average winrate of 49.2% battling Lucian with this counter build.
To have the best likelihood of annihilating Lucian as Nunu & Willump, you should take the Phase Rush, Nimbus Cloak, Celerity, Waterwalking, Eyeball Collection, and Relentless Hunter runes from the Sorcery and Domination rune sets. Out of all the runes we have analyed for Nunu & Willump vs Lucian LoL games, this mix of runes resulted in the best win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 49.2% win rate overall.
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