Vayne vs Lucian
How to Beat Lucian as Vayne
based on 13,148 Vayne vs Lucian matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Vayne vs Lucian Matchup Summary
Best Vayne vs Lucian Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Lucian as Vayne
Tips for Playing as Vayne against Lucian
Don't go in first to a large teamfight. Wait for your teammates to initiate.
Tumble has many uses, but it cannot pass over walls.
Condemn can be used to both pin targets to walls to ensure a kill, or to escape a pursuer.
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.
Vayne vs Lucian Counter Stats
How to Counter Lucian with Vayne in LoL
The stat comparisons shown here clarify some valuable Vayne versus Lucian counter statistics that can help us understand the differences between the pair. As an example, Vayne’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Lucian’s KDA ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Vayne may be more central to her team's team fighting capability than Lucian..
Vayne normally has a similar longest killing spree as her matchup does. Commonly, she receives a similar amount of damage to Lucian. This commonly reflects differing health capacities; however, it can also indicate that the one champ has less mobility and thus is unable to flee from additional damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Vayne and Lucian
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Who is Better, Vayne or Lucian?
Both LoL champions are great champions. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Vayne usually fairs equally well when trying to fight Lucian, with a 50.6% win rate. As a result, Vayne makes an ok counter for Lucian.
While Vayne does have a higher winrate than Lucian, when on opposite teams, Vayne also has a greater learning curve that makes her a more difficult champion to pick up and master. You should be careful when picking Vayne into Lucianas her relative depth means you may not be able to unleash her full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Additionally, Vayne has some amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Lucian. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when facing champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion overall in League of Legends, in Vayne vs Lucian matchups, Vayne is the better champ with a similar win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during teamfights.
Vayne is a decent counter to Lucian. Make sure you focus your actions on maximizing your gold and cs and destroying objectives. If you do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Vayne against Lucian.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Vayne to counter Lucian during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and stats shown above, you will increase your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Vayne usually accumulates a similar amount of CS compared to Lucian. Champs who typically don't acquire many minion kills typically don't need much CS to be valuable teammates, such as supports. They are able to scale well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically have to have many items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the numbers displayed on this page to do well.
The ideal items to use in your Vayne versus Lucian build consist of Guardian Angel, Wit's End, and Guinsoo's Rageblade. When Vayne combined at least these three pieces in her build, she performed significantly better versus Lucian than with many other common builds. In fact, Vayne had an average winrate of 50.6% when playing against Lucian with these items in her kit.
To have the best probability of crushing Lucian as Vayne, Vayne players should equip the Lethal Tempo, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Coup de Grace, Overgrowth, and Conditioning runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Of all the rune combinations we have analyed for Vayne vs Lucian face-offs, this set of runes yielded the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 50.6% winrate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to beat Lucian as Vayne are displayed for all skill levels combined. If you would like to narrow the stats and builds to a specific rank, you can use the selection menu located earlier in the counter matchup guide.