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 stat comparisons shown on this page emphasize some valuable Rell versus Lucian matchup statistics that may help us explain the differences between the two. As an example, Rell’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Lucian’s ratio of NaN, indicating that Rell may be more central to her team's team fighting effectiveness than Lucian. This observation is largely fueled by the differences in assists.
Rell usually has a significantly smaller longest kill spree than her enemy does. Typically, she receives a similar amount of damage to Lucian. This typically indicates differing health capacities; however, it can also show that the champ with increased HP has less agility and thus is unable to kite away from additional harm when engaged or poked.
Both League champs are great champions. Both champs have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Rell usually loses when facing off against Lucian, with a 48.6% win rate. Therefore, Rell makes a poor counter to Lucian.
While Rell does have a lower win rate than Lucian, when on opposite teams, Rell also has a much lower learning curve that makes her a less time consuming champ to pick up and master. You should be careful when picking Rell into Lucian.
Additionally, Rell also has a very large amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Lucian. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when facing champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion overall in League of Legends, in Rell vs Lucian matchups, Lucian is the better champion with a lower win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during team fights.
Rell is a somewhat poor counter for Lucian. You will do well by focussing your tactics on keeping up your gold and cs and taking out objectives. If you can do that, you should hold your own as Rell against Lucian.
To learn all of the intricacies of Rell to counter Lucian during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you listen to the build and stats presented here, you will increase your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Rell usually gets a lot less CS relative to Lucian. Champs who typically don't acquire much CS usualy don't require much CS to be effective, such as sup champs. They are able to scale well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually have to have a lot of items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the numbers reported on this page to do well.
The most crucial items to use in your Rell versus Lucian build consist of Trailblazer, Zeke's Convergence, and Knight's Vow. When Rell incorporated at least these three items in her build, she did much better vs. Lucian than with most other typical counter builds. In fact, Rell had an average winrate of 48.6% when playing against Lucian with this build.
To have the greatest chance of coming out on top against Lucian as Rell, you should use the Glacial Augment, Hextech Flashtraption, Minion Dematerializer, Cosmic Insight, Bone Plating, and Unflinching runes from the Inspiration and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the rune builds that we analyzed for Rell vs Lucian battles, this sequence of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 48.6% winrate overall.
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