Powerball can be used as an effective escape mechanism.
Tremors and Defensive Ball Curl can be used late in the game to obliterate towers. If you're bogged down in a team fight, it is often valuable to break off and attack the buildings.
Using taunt on a champion by your tower can cause the tower to attack your enemy.
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 shown on this page highlight several significant Rammus versus Lucian matchup statistics that may help you understand the differences between the pair. Rammus’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Lucian’s ratio of NaN, highlighting that Rammus may be more central to his team's team fighting capability than Lucian. This observation is largely caused by the differences in assists.
Rammus normally has a slightly smaller longest killing spree than his opponent does. Typically, he receives more damage than Lucian. This is usually reflective of different amounts of tankyness, but it can also show that the champion with more health has less mobility and thus is not able to escape further damage when engaged or poked.
Both League champions are great champions. Both have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Rammus usually wins when playing against Lucian, with a 52.2% win rate. Therefore, Rammus makes a good counter to Lucian.
While Rammus does have a higher winrate than Lucian, when on opposite teams, Rammus also has a lower learning curve that makes him a less complex champ to pick up and master. You should be be fine when picking Rammus into Lucian.
Furthermore, Rammus also has a lot of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Lucian. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when fighting champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion in League of Legends, in Rammus vs Lucian matchups, Rammus is the better champion with a noticably higher win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during team fights.
Rammus is a good counter to Lucian. Make sure you focus your actions on increasing your CS and destroying objectives. If you are able to do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Rammus against Lucian.
To learn all of the intricacies of Rammus in order to counter Lucian during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to gather a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and stats shown above, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Rammus usually picks up a lot less CS relative to Lucian. Champions who typically don't take much CS typically don't have to have much CS to be effective, such as supports. These kinds of champions are able to scale 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 case, try to surpass the values shown on this page to do well.
The best items to focus on in your Rammus versus Lucian build consist of Sunfire Aegis, Dead Man's Plate, and Jak'Sho, The Protean. When Rammus bought at least these three pieces in his build, he did a lot better when fighting Lucian than with many other common item sets. In fact, Rammus boasted an average win rate of 52.2% when countering Lucian with these items in his kit.
To have the best likelihood of coming out on top against Lucian as Rammus, you should take the Aftershock, Font of Life, Conditioning, Unflinching, Triumph, and Legend: Alacrity runes from the Resolve and Precision rune sets. Of all the rune combinations players used for Rammus vs Lucian matchups, this blending of runes yielded the best win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 52.2% win rate overall.
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