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 show several influential Sett versus Lucian matchup stats that can help us interpret the differences and similarities between the two. Sett’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Lucian’s ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Sett may be more central to his team's team fighting potential than Lucian..
Sett often has a slightly smaller longest kill spree than his matchup does. Commonly, he takes more damage than Lucian. This often reflects differing health capacities; however, it can also imply that the one champion has less agility and thus is unable to kite away from further damage when engaged or poked.
Both League champs are great. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Sett usually wins when playing against Lucian, with a 51.4% win rate. Therefore, Sett makes a good counter to Lucian.
While Sett does have a higher winrate than Lucian, when facing one another, Sett also has a much lower level of difficulty that makes him a less time consuming character to learn and master. You should be careful when picking Sett into Lucian.
Additionally, Sett also has only a small amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Lucian. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when trying to counter champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion overall in League of Legends, in Sett vs Lucian matchups, Sett is the better champ with a higher win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during late stage team fights.
Sett is a decent counter for Lucian. Make sure you focus your strategy on maximizing your CS and clearing objectives. If you are able to do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Sett against Lucian.
If you would like to truly master Sett to counter Lucian during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to pick up a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you listen 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.
Sett typically picks up a similar amount of CS as Lucian. Champs who typically don't earn much CS usualy don't have to have much CS to be effective, such as sup champs. They are able to scale properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, often require many items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the numbers reported here to do well.
The most important items to focus on in your Sett versus Lucian build consist of Sterak's Gage, Dead Man's Plate, and Titanic Hydra. When Sett used at least these three items in his build, he did significantly better vs Lucian than with most other typical builds. In fact, Sett had an average winrate of 51.4% battling Lucian with this build.
To have the highest probability of crushing Lucian as Sett, Sett players should equip the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Last Stand, Second Wind, and Overgrowth runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Of all the runes that we analyzed for Sett vs Lucian counterpicks, this sequence of runes yielded the best win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 51.4% win rate overall.
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